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Bangladesh restricts Fonterra dairy products pending tests 27 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
Bangladesh customs authorities have restricted the import of more than 600 metric tons (661.39 tons) of powdered milk mainly from New Zealand-based Fonterra pending mandatory chemical tests, a senior ...
UN presses on with Syria inquiry 27 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Russia has said military intervention in Syria would have “catastrophic consequences” for the region. The warning from Moscow came as the US and its allies considered launching strikes on Syria in res...
Zimmerman lawyer to ask Florida to pay up to $300,000 in legal costs 27 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm
George Zimmerman, whose acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin sparked protests across the United States, will ask Florida to pay up to $300,000 of his legal expenses, his ...
France says would be hard to bypass U.N. in action against Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
France’s foreign minister said on Monday no decision had been made yet on whether to take military action against Syria, but doing so outside the auspices of the U.N. Security Council would be problem...
Tens of thousands of Filipinos protest “pork barrel” funds 26 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Tens of thousands of Filipinos angry at official corruption marched through the center of Manila and other cities to demand the abolition of a misused fund for legislators’ pet projects, the biggest p...
U.N. team heads to site of poison gas attack outside Damascus 26 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
A six-car convoy of United Nations inspectors left a Damascus hotel on Monday and headed to the scene of a poison gas attack outside the Syrian capital last week, a Reuters witness said. The team of c...
Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in predawn raid 26 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians and wounded about a dozen in an early morning raid on Monday to arrest a suspected militant in a refugee camp near Jerusalem, Palestinian medical sources to...
Snowden got stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry 26 Aug 2013 | 03:27 pm
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would not let him fly from Russia to Cuba, a Russian newspaper reported on Mon...
Turkey would join coalition against Syria, says Davutoglu 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
Turkey would join any international coalition against Syria even if a wider consensus on action cannot be reached at the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying on...
Russia concerned about possible U.S. military response in Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 03:23 pm
Russia has expressed its concern to Washington that the United States will respond militarily to a suspected chemical weapons attack by Syrian government forces and urged restraint, Russia’s Foreign M...
