The United Nations said on Friday greater urgency was needed to slow climate change and that even success at current low-ambition talks among 200 nations in Doha would delight no one. The world economic slowdown

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Hackers attacked and defaced the website of India's IT minister on Friday amid a growing campaign against a law governing online comments which has been condemned by free-speech advocates. An amendment to India's Information Technology

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A bill to create a permanent visa programme for foreigners with advanced science and technical degrees cleared the House of Representatives on Friday, the latest salvo in the broader fight over US immigration reform. The

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Tens of thousands of people marched in Kuwait on Friday calling for a voter boycott, a day before a parliamentary election that looks unlikely to defuse tensions in the US-allied, oil-producing Gulf country. Organisers said

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Protesters clashed with police Friday in the flashpoint town of Siliana, where violence has left hundreds wounded this week, as political instability mounts two years after Tunisia's revolution. Thousands took to the streets of the

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Syrian air force jets bombarded rebel targets on Friday close to the Damascus airport road and a regional airline said foreign carriers had halted flights to the capital. Activists said security forces clashed with rebels

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Several employees at the HSBC bank in Geneva have left "by mutual agreement" after the unravelling of a 100 million euro ($130 million) drug and money laundering ring in France and Switzerland, Swiss daily Tribune

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Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believe aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. Syria was plunged

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A Missouri mechanic and his unemployed wife came forward Friday as holders of one of two winning tickets in the second largest lottery in US history: a $587.5 million Powerball jackpot. Mark and Cindy Hill

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The army private accused of the biggest leak of official secrets in US history admitted Friday he had turned a prison bed sheet into a makeshift noose he could have used to kill himself. Bradley

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