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UN Security Council envoys visit war-torn Somalia: Presidency

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 15:37

UN Security Council ambassadors met with Somalia`s president Wednesday under heavy security in the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu, the presidency said in a statement.

20 killed in Yemen sectarian clashes

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 17:35

At least 20 people were killed in sectarian clashes in Yemen, officials said Wednesday.

`Uyghur girls get calls to become `sex slaves` for jihadists`

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 15:28

Chinese police is probing claims that teenage Uyghur girls based outside the restive Xinjiang province were being telephoned and asked to serve as "sex slaves" for Islamic State jihadists in the Middle East.

South Korea military details plan to curb bullying

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 15:23

South Korea`s military outlined measures Wednesday to curb barrack-room bullying, following a series of incidents and suicides involving young soldiers serving in isolated frontline units.

White House didn`t OK immigrant releases: Report

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 15:20

An internal Homeland Security Department report says immigration officials decided on their own, strictly for budget reasons, to release more than 2,000 immigrants facing deportation in 2013.

Ukraine says Russian aid convoy won`t be let in, denounce Moscow`s "cynicism"

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 15:40

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk denounced on Wednesday the dispatch of a Russian humanitarian aid convoy to Ukraine as an act of Russian "cynicism" and the country`s Interior Minister said it would not be allowed in.

Austrian mountain rescuers deliver high-altitude baby

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:29

A team of 15 mountain rescuers accompanied by a gynaecologist had to climb some 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) above sea level to help deliver a baby, police said Wednesday.

Islamic State advances in Syria`s Aleppo province: NGO

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:08

Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group have taken over six villages in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group has said.

Tourist`s body found in suitcase in Indonesia, daughter arrested

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:07

An American tourist`s battered body has been found in a suitcase at a hotel in Bali and her daughter and daughter`s boyfriend have been arrested for the murder, police said on Wednesday.

Former White House press secretary Jim Brady dies

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:03

James Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal crusade for gun control, died Monday. He was 73.