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Exploration likely to suffer as government accuses former general of launching a coup

China tightens security measures over Tiananmen Square anniversary and Xinjiang attack.

Constitutional Court in Ankara says access should be restored as ban violates freedom of expression.

Farzana Parveen killed in front of court house while police did nothing, claims husband.

Comparisons to EU wide of the mark, as Russia increases political control over neighbours

Islamist rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra said a US citizen carried out a suicide attack in Syria's Idlib province

National Oil Corporation say security is number one priority for Libya.

The inmates were raped and ordered to perform sexual acts on each other.

Jonathan authorises forces to use any means necessary to defeat Islamist insurgency.

Incident in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh sparks outrage.

Pro-Russian separatists shoot down military helicopter after offloading soldiers at military base.

Police and youth clash as squatters are evicted from the Can Vies building in the Sants area of Barcelona.

998-ton tanker Shoko Maru burst into flames near Himeji off Japan's southwest coast.

Forty-five percent of African households are still living in poverty.

Whistleblower tells US television he is 'not supported' by Russia nor a spy.

Vyacheslav Ponomarev says his troops are holding four international monitors kidnapped in Donetsk.

Underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 finishes surveying sea floor in India Ocean's search zone and finds nothing related to MH370.

Preliminary results indicate former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is heading for landslide victory.

Presidents Obama and Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Rev. Jesse Jackson pay their personal tributes to Maya Angelou.

Japan's government to fund Tepco's £1.8bn pipe network plan at wrecked nuclear plant.

Expatriate Syrians turn out in large numbers to cast advance votes in Syria's Junethe election

Five policemen were attacked by a mob after they shot a suspected illegal logger near the Popocatepetl Volcano.

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told Russia's President Vladimir Putin that Gazprom will only deliver what Ukraine pays for

Pro-democracy demonstrators take to Bangkok's streets to protest against the sudden coup by Thai Army

Obama claims United States remain world's most indispensable nation despite long season of wars.

IDF troops raid publisher's offices to prevent the publication of three Hamas newspapers.

At West Point, US President Barack Obama says the country has rarely been stronger on the world stage.

Russian newspaper cites high-ranking Moscow source saying Syrian regime requested aid for social projects

Around 2,000 sub-Saharan asylum seekers storm razor wire fence in Spanish exclave of Melilla