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Oscar Pistorius allowed to travel after winning appeal against bail conditions
Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will be allowed to travel after winning the appeal against the terms of his...
Cyprus banks reopen amid tension over possible large scale withdrawals
Cyprus banks have reopened after a two-week closure sparked by the EU-IMF bailout negotiations, amid tension over possible large scale withdrawals. Branches were replenished with...
North Korea cuts Kaesong military hotline with South Korea
North Korea has announced it severs another military hotline with South Korea. The hotline is used to facilitate the travel of South Korean workers to a...
Biggest cyber-attack in history slows down global internet after row between Spamhaus and Cyberbunker
Global internet has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history. A row between spam-fighting...
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito face Meredith Kercher murder retrial in Italy
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito face a retrial over the 2007 killing of Briton student Meredith Kercher, Italy's highest court has...
Cyprus banks remain closed until March 28
All Cyprus banks will remain closed until Thursday, March 28, the central bank has announced. Temporary measures will be placed on transactions when they reopen...
Rupiah Banda, Zambia ex president, arrested over Nigerian oil deal
Rupiah Banda, Zambia ex president, has been arrested in connection with a Nigerian oil deal, officials say. Rupiah Banda is accused of stealing more than...
Jessica Upshaw death: Mississippi Republican Rep found shot dead at former state Rep Clint Rotenberry home
Mississippi authorities are investigating the death of State Representative Jessica Upshaw, who was found dead in a suspected suicide at the home of former...
Cyprus bailout deal agreed by Eurogroup with Laiki Bank to be wound down
Eurogroup have agreed a deal on a 10 billion-euro bailout for Cyprus to prevent its banking system collapsing and keep the country in the...
CAR President Francois Bozize flees Bangui and rebels take control of capital
Rebels in the Central African Republic have taken the capital, Bangui, after President Francois Bozize fled. Witnesses reported gunfire as the Seleka rebel coalition took...
Boris Berezovsky found dead at his home in Surrey
Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian tycoon, has been found dead at his home in Surrey, UK. The circumstances of the death of Boris Berezovsky -...
Warren Rodwell released by Abu Sayyaf after 15 months
Australian Warren Rodwell, who was kidnapped 15 months ago by al-Qaeda-linked group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, has been released. Warren Rodwell was freed on...
Cyprus parliament approves national solidarity fund
Cyprus parliament has approved a "national solidarity fund" to ease the banking crisis, which has hit confidence across the eurozone. MPs also imposed capital controls...
Lebanon’s PM Najib Mikati steps down
Lebanon’s PM Najib Mikati has announced the resignation of his entire cabinet. The move comes after the deeply divided cabinet failed to approve a commission...
Burma: Meiktila state of emergency following three days of violence between Buddhists and Muslims
Burma has imposed a state of emergency in Meiktila following three days of communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A statement announcing the decision on...
Two helicopters crash near Berlin’s Olympic Stadium
Two helicopters have crashed near Berlin's Olympic Stadium, leaving at least two people dead and several others injured. The helicopters hit each other in mid-air...
Lufthansa cancels more than 500 flights ahead tomorrow’s strike
Lufthansa has cancelled more than 500 flights in advance of a strike by workers on Thursday. The Verdi union has called on 33,000 employees to...
Christine Lagarde’s Paris apartment searched in Bernard Tapie probe
French police have searched the Paris apartment of IMF chief Christine Lagarde, as they investigate her role in awarding financial compensation to businessman Bernard...
Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam: Muammar Gaddafi cousin arrested in Egypt
Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, a close aide and cousin of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been arrested in Egypt. Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam was Tripoli's special...
Hawthorne Army Depot blast kills seven Marines in Nevada
Seven US Marines have been killed and several others injured after a mortar shell exploded unexpectedly during a training accident the Hawthorne Army Depot...
Cyprus banks closed until March 21st
Cyprus’ central bank has announced that the nation's banks will stay closed until Thursday, March 21, as fears mount of a bank run. Cyprus' banks...
Italy’s Ambassador Daniele Mancini may be declared persona non grata in India
The Supreme Court in India has said Italy's Ambassador Daniele Mancini does not have legal immunity, in an escalating row over Rome's refusal to...
Journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim freed by Somali Supreme Court
The Supreme Court in Somalia has freed journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, who was imprisoned for interviewing a woman who alleged she had been raped...
Hungary deploys tanks to reach snowbound cars on M1 motorway
Hungary has deployed tanks to reach snowbound motorists as cold weather causes transport chaos across Eastern Europe. T-72 battle tanks trundled along icy roads, while...
Italian Ambassador Daniele Mancini ordered not to leave India over marines row
Daniele Mancini, Italy’s ambassador to India, has been ordered not to leave the country after Rome's refusal to return two marines charged with the...
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