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Ukraine pilot plans hunger strike over Russia trial delay 03 Mar 2016 - 06:01 pm

Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadiya Savchenko looks out from a defendants' cell during a hearing in the southern Russian town of Donetsk on...

Mexico says won’t pay for Trump’s ‘terrible’ border wall 03 Mar 2016 - 05:57 pm

There is no way Mexico would fund Donald Trump’s “terrible” plan to build a wall along its border with the United States if...

Brazil on course for worst recession in century 03 Mar 2016 - 05:07 pm

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a breakfast with journalists at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 15, 2016. Reuters/Adriano Machado Rio de...

Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin's Syria strikes 03 Mar 2016 - 04:32 pm

Gulchekhra (Gyulchekhra) Bobokulova, a nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care, sits inside a defendants' cage as she attends a court...

Germany probing Islamic State link to policeman's stabbing-magazine 03 Mar 2016 - 02:11 pm

BERLIN: German prosecutors investigating a 15-year-old girl over the stabbing of a policeman in Hanover last week are exploring a possible connection to...

Public support for Putin to serve another term hits highest level in four years: Poll 03 Mar 2016 - 01:29 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting with a delegation from Kyrgyzstan, led by President Almazbek Atambayev,...

Tusk tells economic migrants: 'Do not come to Europe' 03 Mar 2016 - 12:58 pm

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) shakes hands with European Council President Donald Tusk at Maximos Mansion in Athens on March 3, 2016. ...

Outgoing Irish coalition wins vote but without majority: Final results 03 Mar 2016 - 12:47 pm

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny speaks to the media at the general election count centre in Castlebar, Ireland February 27, 2016. Reuters Dublin:...

Nigeria, corruption and 'the Goodluck Jonathan alibi' 03 Mar 2016 - 08:33 am

Lagos: It would be easy to believe that Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is winning the war against corruption since his landmark election victory...

EU's Tusk in Greece as 700-mn-euro migrant aid plan launched 03 Mar 2016 - 08:29 am

A family prepares tea in the makeshift migrant camp at the gate of the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, on...

New Zealand flag vote - 'beach towel v colonial relic' 03 Mar 2016 - 08:22 am

Wellington: New Zealanders began voting Thursday on whether to adopt a new flag, in a referendum Prime Minister John Key has called a...

South Sudan crisis is worsening: UN 03 Mar 2016 - 08:08 am

A senior UN official said the death toll from the fighting in South Sudan may have reached 50,000 or more (AFP Photo/Albert Gonzalez...

Climate change poised to hurt food supplies: study 03 Mar 2016 - 08:03 am

If greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, this would cut projected increases in food availability by about a third before mid-century, the...

Venezuelan students clash with police over court ruling 03 Mar 2016 - 07:46 am

The student protest was against a ruling by the high court that stripped the National Assembly's power to remove justices from the bench...

France would end Calais camp and woo bankers post Brexit: Macron 03 Mar 2016 - 07:45 am

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron in Paris on February 24, 2016 (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson) London: France would cease keeping migrants in Calais and...