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At least 34 killed in protests across Syria

Syrian security forces shot dead at least 34 people Friday, including a child, as pro-democracy protests swept the ...

At least 21 killed in protests across Syria

Syrian security forces shot dead at least 21 people, including a child, as pro-democracy protests swept the country on ...

6.0 magnitude quake rattles Costa Rica

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica on Friday, alarming residents of the Central American country and causing ...

Syrian forces arrest prominent lawyer in Raqqa-group

Syrian forces arrested a prominent human rights lawyers in the city of Raqqa after he criticised the authorities` ...

25 killed as Syrian tanks storm Daraa: activists

Thousands of Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed the flashpoint town of Daraa on Monday killing at least 25 people, ...

Syria death toll hits 120 in two days: report

At least 120 people were killed in a two-day crackdown by Syrian security forces against protesters, a group of ...

Syria rounds up regime opponents: rights group

Security forces have arrested dozens of people in raids across Syria even though President Bashar al-Assad has lifted ...

End of Syria emergency rule not enough: activists

Two prominent Syrian human rights activists welcomed a decree signed by President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday lifting ...

Scientists want climate change early-warning system

A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that ...

Rights group reports dozens of arrests in Syria

Dozens of activists were detained in rallies across Syria on Friday, London-based rights group the Syrian Observatory ...

Strong 6.6 quake hits Papua New Guinea

A remote region of Papua New Guinea was rattled by a strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake Thursday, seismologists said, but ...

Iraqi journalist murdered outside home: police

An Iraqi journalist was gunned down outside his home in the restive northern city of Mosul early on Thursday, police ...

NASA twin probe fetches first 3-dimensional image of the sun

Twin spacecraft STEREO A ("Ahead") and B ("Behind") reached their final locations on opposite sides of the Sun and ...

50 dead in Iraq as suicide blasts rock holy city

A spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in ...