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Britons should 'get a say on car park king's remains'

16.08.2013 17:10
The British public should be consulted on the final resting place of Richard III, the 15th- century king whose skeleton was found under a car park, a judge ruled on Friday. The bones of Richard, a controversial monarch demonised by Shakespeare, were dug up last year outside a municipal building in...

UN chief urges Mideast rivals to drop 'scepticism'

16.08.2013 17:08
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on Israelis and Palestinians on Friday to overcome "deep scepticism" that he said risked thwarting efforts to reach a peace agreement. "We must overcome the deep scepticism that comes from 20 years of stalemate," Ban said at a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli President...

Turkey losing regional clout as Egypt crisis flares

16.08.2013 17:06
Turkey's clout in the Middle East is taking a beating with the brutal sidelining of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood derailing Ankara's hopes to lead a regional surge of Islamist political power, analysts say. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was an early supporter of the 2011...

Egypt's tourism faces meltdown as security fears mount

16.08.2013 17:05
Egypt's tourist industry was facing meltdown on Friday as foreign governments warned their citizens to stay away and told visitors already there to remain in their hotels. Fears of nationwide unrest in the wake of a violent crackdown by the military- backed interim government earlier this week...

Activists say Syrian government airstrike kills at least 15, wounds dozens in north

16.08.2013 17:01
Activists say an airstrike by the Syrian military has killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens of others in the contested northern city of Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media center say the airstrike targeted three buildings that were almost...

Deaths reported as thousands of Morsi supporters march in Egypt's 'Friday of anger'

16.08.2013 16:59
Tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters stormed the streets of Cairo Friday, some chanting “down with military rule!” as the embattled country braced for more protests over a crackdown on Islamists. Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi marched in several Cairo...

Victims of fatal Alabama UPS plane crash identified

16.08.2013 16:53
– An Alabama medical examiner has identified the two crew members who died in the crash of a UPS plane this week. The Jefferson County, Ala., medical examiner on Thursday night identified the victims as Capt. Cerea Beal, Jr., 58, of Matthews, N.C. and First Officer Shanda Fleming, 37, of...

New Zealand's plan to regulate designer drugs is better than trying to ban them and failing

10.08.2013 05:21
AS THE world’s drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust...

Yemen: 'Militants' die in fresh drone strikes

10.08.2013 05:10
At least 14 suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed in Yemen in three drone strikes, officials say. The number of such strikes in Yemen, presumably launched by the US, has been stepped up over the past month. The latest attacks come a day after Yemeni authorities said they had foiled a major...

'Syrians and Egyptians' among migrants reaching Italy

10.08.2013 05:06
Syrians and Egyptians are reported to be among nearly 700 migrants who arrived illegally by boat in southern Italy in the space of 24 hours. In one boat, coast guards found 176 people, including 41 women and 73 children, who said they were from the two countries, Italian media report. Each had...
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