SEOUL, Jan 15 (AP): North Korea is no longer South Korea's "enemy," though Pyongyang's nuclear programme still poses a security threat, according to Seoul's biennial defence document published on Tuesday.It's the first time since 2010, the same year 50 South Koreans were killed in attacks blamed on the North, that...
Read moreSAN PEDRO SULA, Jan 15 (AP): Another caravan of Central American migrants set out from Honduras on Monday seeking to reach the US border, following the same route used by thousands last year in at least three caravans.About 600 migrants gathered under a steady rain at the bus station in...
Read moreJERUSALEM, Jan 15 (Al Jazeera): Authorities hand eviction order to the Sabbagh family of 45 people, so Israeli settlers could move into their homes.Sheikh Jarrah, Occupied East Jerusalem - Huddled around an electric heater on a chilly winter day, four Palestinian women sit nervously, making calls to acquaintances to ask...
Read moreSYDNEY, Jan 15 (Xinhua): Researchers at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) have made a major breakthrough in ultrasound technology which they believe could greatly improve technologies, from medical imaging, to unmanned aerial vehicles.The team described on Monday how they used modern nanofabrication and nanophotonics to make extremely precise ultrasound sensors,...
Read moreBEIRUT, Jan 15 (AFP): Freezing temperatures and the lack of medical care have killed at least 15 displaced Syrian children in recent weeks, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said eight of them had died as a result of the cold in the Rukban camp in...
Read moreKANO, Nigeria, Jan 15 (AFP): Boko Haram fighters attacked a military base in remote northeast Nigeria, setting fire to shelters for those made homeless by the conflict, military and humanitarian sources told AFP on Tuesday.The attack in Rann, some 175 kilometres (110 miles) northeast of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri,...
Read moreKABUL, Jan 15 (AP): A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded scores when he detonated an explosive-laden vehicle late in the evening in the Afghan capital, officials said on Tuesday.It was the latest in a relentless wave of near daily attacks by the Taliban, who now...
Read moreFive people die in Zimbabwe fuel hike protests HARARE, Jan 15: A human rights group in Zimbabwe says five people were killed in clashes between demonstrators protesting fuel hikes and security forces who opened fire on some crowds. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights on Tuesday reported the...
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