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Wednesday 27 June 2012
Rising violence forces the UN envoy to summon permanent UN Security Council members after rebels launch bold attack on a pro-Assad television station.
North Korean soldiers have been dispatched to water crops that are withering in the worst drought to affect the country in more than a century.
Assailants attacked the offices of online giant in Athens, driving a van through the front doors and setting off an incendiary device.
Two Chinese officials involved in forcibly aborting a seven-month-old foetus earlier this month have been fired, according to reports in the Chinese media.
Riot police have reportedly clashed with hundreds of migrant workers in southeastern China in the latest explosion of social unrest to hit the country’s manufacturing heartlands.
German court's landmark ruling on circumcising young boys after case involving Muslim boy creates legal confusion.
A second sinking of a rickety ship filled with asylum seekers has sparked emotional scenes in Australia’s parliament as MPs broke down during an urgent vote on a border protection compromise.
Rielle Hunter says she and former presidential candidate John Edwards have ended their relationship.
A British man has been sentenced to death in Abu Dhabi after being caught selling cannabis worth £250 to an undercover policeman.
Argentina's president warns athletes travelling to the Olympics to avoid provocative action over the Falklands.
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Two dozen people on four continents have been arrested in an elaborate sting targeting a black market for online financial fraud, the FBI said.
Laos has held its first ever gay pride event in what supporters hope is a sign of softening social values in the small communist country.
One group accused of asking for three 'summit certificates' when only one ascended to top.
The Vatican has accepted the resignation of an Argentine bishop who was caught cavorting with a blonde, bikini-clad woman on a Mexican beach.
Police in northern Australia are searching thick bushland for an armed fugitive accused of decapitating a man and leaving a hat where his head should have been.
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Assailants attacked the offices of Microsoft in Athens early on Wednesday, driving a van through the front doors and setting off an incendiary device that burned the building entrance, police said.
A French architect who is being held by police in Phnom Penh in connection with the alleged murder of a British businessman was “keeping money” for the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, a senior Cambodian politician has claimed.
The defeated "old regime" candidate in Egypt's presidential elections left the country on Tuesday, shortly after law suits were filed claiming he had been involved in corruption.
An asylum-seeker boat carrying an estimated 150 people capsized Wednesday en route to Australia's Christmas Island, the second such incident in just over a week.
Egypt is set to have its first democratically elected president for six decades.
A wildfire raging near some of Colorado's most popular tourist sites grew rapidly more ferocious, prompting mass evacuations and swallowing numerous houses at the edge of Colorado Springs.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is facing domestic political embarrassment after enduring a series of damaging snubs on a visit to Brazil, Iran’s erstwhile close ally.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is facing domestic political embarrassment after enduring a series of damaging snubs on a visit to Brazil, Iran’s erstwhile close ally.
Two Mexican police officers suspected of working for drug traffickers fired on fellow officers in a food court at Mexico City's international airport, killing three policemen.
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