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01 June 2014 • 09:52 AMT
16 missing as helicopter crashes into lake in Russia

The Investigative Committee said it began a criminal inquiry into the crash on the basis of suspected breaches of air safety rules.

01 June 2014 • 09:35 AMT
Tunisia abruptly cancels int’l meetings on Libya

Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “there are no clear interlocutors with the presence of two governments in Libya.”

01 June 2014 • 08:12 AMT
Turkish police, protesters clash on deadly anti-govt. rally anniv.

Security forces also fired tear gas at demonstrators in central Ankara and broke up protests in the southern city of Adana.

01 June 2014 • 07:51 AMT
Iran hangs opposition group-linked prisoner: report

The MEK began fighting to overthrow the Islamic Republic shortly after the 1979 revolution that toppled a pro-Western monarchy.

01 June 2014 • 07:10 AMT
FIFA faces fresh corruption allegations over 2022 Qatar World Cup

The paper also makes fresh allegations about the relationship between Bin Hammam and his disgraced FIFA ally Jack Warner, from Trinidad.

01 June 2014 • 06:55 AMT
Six Egyptian border guards killed by smugglers: army spokesman

The six soldiers, who included an officer, were killed while carrying out a patrol in the western desert area of al-Wahat.

30 May 2014 • 14:16 AMT
EFSE success stories. Hamlet Shmavonyan: problems are solvable, if people do their job

Hamlet Shmavonyan, a resident of Aratavan village in Ararat province of Armenia, believes that all problems are solvable, once people do their job. With the latest $2500 loan from ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank, he bought a land adjacent to his house, where he already built a pigsty, as well as two greenhouses to grow pinks, tulips and chrysanthemums. He also purchased fuelwood he uses to heat the greenhouses in winter.

30 May 2014 • 13:44 AMT
Artsakh defense army says number of casualties never concealed

Hiding data is our rival’s work style, which is applied to avoid public indignation,” the NKR army’s press office said.

30 May 2014 • 13:01 AMT
Access to YouTube set to be restored in Turkey

The block was imposed as a “precautionary administrative measure”, Turkey’s telecommunications regulator said at the time.

30 May 2014 • 12:58 AMT
Apple inks new contracts with additional carriers

“Assuming these carriers also get the new iPhone at launch, this could help year over year unit sell-in numbers,” Um wrote.

30 May 2014 • 12:48 AMT
Israeli security forces say Palestinian suicide bomb attack foiled

The last such attacks took place in 2008 and Lerner said military intelligence had no indication of any specific threat at present.

30 May 2014 • 12:41 AMT
Moscow criticizes rejection of application for missile defense event

“This may violate the strategic balance and undermine international stability,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

30 May 2014 • 12:31 AMT
Almost 2,000 killed in Aleppo air attacks this year: activist group

The UK-based SOHR said 1,963 people had been killed in the city – Syria’s largest – and the surrounding area since January.

30 May 2014 • 12:26 AMT
OSCE says contact lost with another group of monitors

The activists assured journalists that they would “deal with this and then release them,” but did not give a specific timeframe.

30 May 2014 • 12:19 AMT
Luxury Northern Ireland hotel damaged in bombing

A device packed into a holdall bag started a fire after it was thrown into the reception of the Everglades Hotel in Londonderry.

30 May 2014 • 09:33 AMT
Bulgaria’s left-leaning govt. survives fourth no-confidence vote

The latest motion accused the government of failed policies in the energy sector in the European Union’s poorest country.

30 May 2014 • 08:34 AMT
Google releases ‘right to be forgotten’ form

Page said the ruling would encourage “other governments that aren’t as forward and progressive as Europe to do bad things”.

30 May 2014 • 08:25 AMT
Al Qaeda renegade group kills 15 Kurds in Syrian village attack

ISIL was jettisoned by al Qaeda’s leadership after it fell into territorial and power struggles with Jabhat al-Nusra rebels.

30 May 2014 • 08:16 AMT
Ecuador court sentences ex-president in absentia to 12 years in jail

Ecuador was struggling at the time with high inflation, a devalued currency and historically low prices for oil, its main export.

30 May 2014 • 08:08 AMT
6 suspected jihadist recruiters arrested in Spain

Spain has arrested several dozen suspected jihadist militants in Melilla and its other north African enclave city of Ceuta in recent years.

30 May 2014 • 07:51 AMT
Facebook CEO pumping $120mln into San Francisco Bay Area schools

“The investments we’ve made are a drop in the bucket compared to the challenges schools face,” Zuckerberg said.

30 May 2014 • 07:24 AMT
Ford recalling 1.4 mln vehicles over power steering issue

The recent spate of similar incidents could mean carmakers will soon break the record for most recalls in a year.

30 May 2014 • 07:06 AMT
Large U.S. companies looking to hire cybersecurity experts, report says

In comparison, CISOs who have been with a company for five or more years are on $200,000 to $300,000 per year, Comyns said.

30 May 2014 • 06:51 AMT
Japan to push for greater role in Asian security

China’s delegation, led by Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying, is expected to describe Tokyo, not Beijing, as a threat to security.

30 May 2014 • 06:32 AMT
UN: record number of peacekeepers deployed around the world

Ladsous said the government “is in a state of virtual nonexistence,” with massive killings and human rights violations continuing.

30 May 2014 • 05:55 AMT
Louisiana Senate condemns pogroms of Armenians in Azerbaijan

The resolution expresses “sympathy in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities perpetrated against the Armenian people.”

30 May 2014 • 05:35 AMT
Frontex: number of migrants reaching Europe rose significantly

From January to April, 42,000 migrants were detected on these routes, with 25,650 of these crossing from Libya.

30 May 2014 • 05:28 AMT
Hagel says U.S. will keep strengthening military position in Asia

“That doesn’t diminish at all the commitment, nor will it, that we have made to this rebalance in Asia and the Pacific,” Hagel said.

29 May 2014 • 17:02 AMT
EU extends Syria sanctions for another year

Two people and one entity have been removed from the initial list of those subjected to sanctions, which were first unveiled in May 2013.

29 May 2014 • 13:49 AMT
Overweight people number tops 2.1 billion: study

The study said rates of obesity were rising across the world, although the rates in developed countries remain the highest.