S Korea halts search for bodies from sunken ferry
SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday (Nov 11) finally called off the search for bodies from the sunken Sewol ferry, nearly…
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Protesters block access to Acapulco airport
ACAPULCO (MEXICO): Protesters furious over the alleged massacre of 43 missing Mexican students blocked access Monday to Acapulco’s international airport.…
Netherlands holds sombre memorial for MH17 victims
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands yesterday held a sombre and emotional memorial for the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines flight…
Remote Sierra Leone region pleads for help in Ebola fight
FREETOWN: The last region of Sierra Leone to be affected by Ebola, Koinadugu, in the northeast of the country, has…
80% of participants in Catalan poll back independence: Early results
BARCELONA: The vast majority of participants, 80.7 per cent, in a symbolic independence referendum in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia…
Fourteen dead in Spain’s worst coach crash in 13 years
MADRID: Fourteen people died when a coach plunged into a ravine in southeastern Spain in the worst such accident in…
Intense artillery fire in Ukraine’s rebel bastion Donetsk
DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s separatist bastion of Donetsk came under intense artillery fire early yesterday, in a level of combat not…
Protesters try to storm Mexico’s National Palace
MEXICO CITY: Protesters angry at the suspected massacre of 43 students tried to break into Mexico City’s National Palace late…