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Venice referendum on splitting from Italy
Venice and the surrounding region are voting on whether to break away from Italy. Recent opinion polls suggest that two thirds of the 4 million...
Nicolas Maduro urges US to discuss peace and sovereignty in a high level commission
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has urged the US to discuss "peace and sovereignty" in a high level commission mediated by the Union of South...
Nigeria jobseeker stampede turns deadly in Abuja stadium
A stampede among jobseekers taking a recruitment test in the national stadium in Nigeria’s capital Abuja has left at least seven people dead and...
Slovakia presidential election 2014: Robert Fico and Andrej Kiska go to second round
Slovakia's PM Robert Fico and independent challenger Andrej Kiska will run for a second round of the country's presidential elections. In Saturday's first round, Robert...
Missing flight MH370 pilots Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq Abdul Hamid investigated
The Kuala Lumpur homes of the two pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board are...
Crimea: Polling stations opened in secession referendum
People in Ukraine’s region Crimea are voting on whether or not to re-join Russia in a referendum condemned as "illegal" by Kiev and the...
Paris pollution prompts alternative driving days introduction
Paris is introducing alternative driving days in an attempt to tackle dangerous levels of air pollution. From Monday, drivers will only be able to use...
Hijacked MH370 was last seen flying towards Pakistan or Indian Ocean
According to officials, the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was hijacked, steered off-course and could have reached Pakistan. It appears that people with significant flying experience...
Russia vetoes UN resolution on Crimea referendum
The draft UN resolution criticizing Sunday's secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region has been vetoed by Russia. Russia is the only Security Council member to...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Berkin Elvan had links to terrorism
Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said 15-year-old Berkin Elvan who died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in last year's anti-government protests had links...
Venezuela accuses John Kerry of murder
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been accused by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Elias Jaua of inciting violence and "murder". Elias Jaua was reacting to...
SXSW car crash: Rashad Charjuan Owens charged with capital murder
Suspected drunken driver Rashad Charjuan Owens was charged Friday with capital murder in the deaths of two people he allegedly killed as he sped...
Slovakia presidential election 2014: PM Robert Fico challenged by independent Andrej Kiska
Slovakia votes in a presidential election that pits current PM Robert Fico against independent challenger Andrej Kiska. PM Robert Fico is seen as the frontrunner,...
Huge Moscow rally against Russian intervention in Crimea
A huge rally is being held in Moscow to oppose Russia's intervention in Ukraine a day before the region of Crimea votes to secede...
Mega Millions jackpot hits $400 million as no winning ticket was sold
Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot soared to $400 million for the next drawing as no winning tickets were sold this week, lottery officials said. Friday’s...
Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was hijacked
Malaysia's PM Najib Razak has said the communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled. According to satellite and radar evidence, the...
Six Egyptian soldiers killed by gunmen in Shubra al-Khayma
Gunmen have killed six Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint in the northern Cairo suburb of Shubra al-Khayma, state media reports. A security official said two...
Ukraine: Kharkiv deadly clashes ahead of Crimea referendum
According to officials, two people have been killed in clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv. Five people were injured...
Devyani Khobragade re-indicted by US grand jury
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has been re-indicted by a grand jury in the US. Devyani Khobragade is accused of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper,...
Oscar Pistorius’ expensive watches went missing from crime scene
Former police officer Col. Schoombie van Rensburg told Oscar Pistorius' murder trial that two of the athlete’s watches went missing from the crime scene. Col....
Bill Clinton’s White House records: Second batch of documents released
Another 4,000 pages of records from President Bill Clinton's White House period have been released by the US National Archive. The newly released records include...
Sarkoleaks scandal: Atlantico website ordered to remove Nicolas Sarkozy tapes
French news website Atlantico has been ordered by a Paris court to remove the recordings of secretly taped conversations of Nicolas Sarkozy during his...
Missing Malaysia Airlines jet flew on for more than five hours after losing radar contact
New reports claim Malaysia Airlines plane may have been flying for more than five hours after it disappeared. According to a BBC report, it is...
US-Russia talks: No common vision on Ukraine crisis
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Russia and the US have "no common vision" on the crisis in Ukraine after meeting US...
Donald Trump on Today Show: Vladimir Putin has eaten Barack Obama’s lunch
Donald Trump appeared on The Today Show to promote his 2014 Miss USA pageant airing on NBC in June, when the conversation turned to...
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