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- Azerbaijan (1,400)
- Bangladesh (459)
- China (1,817)
- India (3,608)
- Indonesia (807)
- Japan (1,436)
- Kazakhstan (682)
- Kyrgyzstan (667)
- Laos (3)
- Malaysia (6,377)
- Myanmar (25)
- Nepal (712)
- Pakistan (3,592)
- Philippines (1,081)
- Singapore (4,460)
- South Korea (305)
- Taiwan (190)
- Tajikistan (42)
- Thailand (1,124)
- Uzbekistan (33)
- Vietnam (614)
War crimes court opens probe into Palestinian territories
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: (AP) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court launched a preliminary probe Friday that could clear the way for a full-scale investigation into possible war crimes in Palestinian territoriesplunging the court into the most politically charged conflict it has ever tackled.Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a...
U.S., UK agree sanctions to remain on Russia – Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to keep sanctions on Russia until it stops its aggression in Ukraine, Obama told a press conference on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Fighting rages at airport, new Ukraine peace talks elusive
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting raged at the international airport in the big Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday as a fresh attempt to resume peace talks to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine failed. …read more Source: The...
Obama, Cameron vow to defeat extremists
Mentioning the TTP attack on a school in Peshawar as an example of how extremists were targeting children, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Thursday to work together to defeat these forces of evil. “We will defeat these barbaric killers and their distorted ideology, which tries to justify the murder of...
WHO- 4,808 killed, nearly 10,500 injured in Ukraine conflict
Dorit Nitzan, the World Health Organization’s representative for Ukraine, has said that as of January 6, 4,808 people had been killed and 10,468 injured in the Ukrainian conflict, RIA Novosti reported. The WHO cannot help people in eastern Ukraine for security reasons after fighting had resumed there recently, despite the Minsk peace...
WHO sounds alarm on Ukraine’s creaking health system
GENEVA (AFP) – Fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine has wreaked havoc on the health system, with more than five million people affected, the United Nations said on Friday.The World Health Organization said access to primary, secondary and emergency health services was critically needed, adding that the health infrastructure was buckling under...
Russia could soon run multiple Ukraine-sized operations – U.S. general
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) – Russia is working to develop within a few years the capability to threaten several neighbours at once on the scale of its present operation in Ukraine, a senior American general said. …read more Source: The...
Fighting in east Ukraine kills 11, including six soldiers
Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said on Friday, as government forces and pro-Russian rebels battled for control of an airport. …read more Source: The Times of...
New wave of intense fighting kills 11 in east Ukraine
KIEV (AFP) – Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as a new round of violence threatened all-out conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels.A military spokesman reported six soldiers killed and 18 others wounded over the past day, adding that a civilian...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed, fighting rages at airport
January 16, 2015 7:28 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in attacks by separatists in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Friday as fighting raged at the international airport in the big eastern city of Donetsk. …read more Source: The Straits...
