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UN Security council to meet on North Korea rights violations
A UN General Assembly committee in recent weeks voted by a record majority to condemn gross widespread human rights violations in North Korea.
16 killed in petrol bomb attack on Egypt nightclub
The unidentified attackers torched the club by throwing Molotov bottles on it.
4.20 lakh people die annually from contaminated food globally
Children under the age of five account for 40 per cent of the 600 million cases of food-borne diseases worldwide annually.
Climate pact an 'act of defiance' after Paris attacks: Barack Obama
Obama exhorted leaders here to fight the enemy of cynicism, "the notion we can't do anything" about the warming of the planet.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denies mocking a reporter with a disability
In a speech Tuesday in South Carolina, Trump said, "Poor guy, you oughta see this guy," and gestured in a jerky fashion as if imitating Kovaleski's movements.
No specific and credible terror threat to US: Barack Obama
Referring to the Paris attacks, Obama said: "It's understandable that people worry something similar could happen here. Watching the events in Paris made the threat feel closer to home.
UN seeks independent probe into Nepal violence
The southern plains are the scene of an ongoing blockade of key border trade points with India and has witnessed sporadic violence for over 100 days now, leading to the death of nearly 50 people.
NATO calls extraordinary meet after Turkey downs Russian jet
The aim of this extraordinary NAC is for Turkey to inform Allies about the downing of a Russian airplane," the official said.
Australian PM asks security agencies to be alert after Paris attacks
In his first major address on national security issues to Parliament, Turnbull said he "could not guarantee there won't be an attack in Australia," but security agencies are "working diligently and expertly to prevent that happening."
Tricolour hoisted upside down at PM Modi-Abe photo-op, government sources call it an inadvertent mistake
The national flag was in the background of Prime Minister Modi and Shinzo Abe's customary handshake at the ASEAN Summit.
India doing better under NDA on all economic indicators, reforms were needed: Modi at ASEAN Summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning pitched India as a manufacturing hub while addressing the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia.
Blast at market in northeastern Nigeria's Yola kills 32
People gather at the scene of a bomb blast at a fruit and vegetable market in the Jimeta area of Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria.
French, Russian raids in Syria kill 33 Islamic State jihadists in 72 hours
France intensified strikes on Raqa following Friday's attacks in Paris that left 129 dead, with warplanes carrying out dozens of raids on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
France stages 128 raids overnight after Paris attacks: minister
Authorities had made 23 arrests and seized 31 weapons including a rocket launcher in a broad sweep of raids across the country on Monday.
