Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution allowing for an international military intervention in troubled Libya. "There is no other choice. Taking into account that the Libyan people must agree that we act to restore security and stability," Sisi said in an interview with French radio Europe 1.Sisi has repeatedly called for some kind of global intervention in Libya, which has been wracked by conflict since the overthrow of dictator Moa

World News Feb. 17, 2015

Military chiefs from around the world will gather in the Saudi capital on Wednesday to assess the battle against Islamic State extremists, diplomatic sources said.The two-day meeting, a followup to earlier talks, will gather "all the countries that are involved" in the United States-led fight against IS, including Gulf nations, one of the sources said."I think it'll be sort of a general appraisal of where we're at, what needs to be done," added the source, who asked for anonymity.Another diploma

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Indian police on Monday charged a millionaire businessman with murder after he allegedly rammed an SUV into his security guard for being slow in opening a gate, an official said.Businessman Muhammad Nisham, 39, was arrested last month after he allegedly pinned his guard Chandarabose against a wall with his Hummer over a delay in opening the gate of an apartment complex in India's southern Kerala state. Fifty-year-old Chandarabose was left with multiple injuries following the incident and died of

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Police said Tuesday that they questioned a Korean-American singer over his alleged sexual harassment of a cabin crew member on a U.S.-bound flight last month.Bobby Kim, a popular R&B singer in South Korea, is accused of inappropriately touching a female crew member as well as hurling sexual insults while he was intoxicated on a flight from Incheon to San Francisco on Jan. 7.Kim said that there was physical contact with a cabin crew member as he was asking her for her mobile phone number.Police s

Feb. 17, 2015

Thousands of people marched in Niger's capital on Tuesday to protest at Boko Haram Islamists who have launched deadly raids in the country from their base in neighboring Nigeria.Prime Minister Brigi Rafini led the demonstrators who marched under a heavy police presence, with snipers posted on roofs of buildings along the protest route, including parliament."Boko Haram is itself haram (forbidden)," read one sign, referring to the name of the jihadist group, which roughly translates as "Western ed

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Japanese household spending in 2014 declined at its fastest pace in eight years, official data showed Tuesday, underscoring the impact of the country's first sales tax hike in nearly two decades.The figures come a day after the government said Japan's economy limped out of recession in the last quarter of 2014, with a weaker-than-expected 0.6 percent expansion between October and December. But the world's number three economy posted zero growth over the full year, partly due to weak private spen

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Taliban suicide bombers dressed as police officers attacked a police station Tuesday in Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people in the latest assault targeting local security forces, authorities said.The attack happened in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of Logar province, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Kabul. There, the first bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of the police headquarters, while a second blew himself up at a security checkpoint inside the compound, said Din Mohammad Darwe

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Indonesia says it has postponed the transfer of eight convicted drug smugglers, including seven foreigners, to a prison island for execution due to technical problems.The eight are facing execution despite international appeals for clemency. Among them are Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of a group of nine Australians arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia from the Indonesian resort island of Bali.Authorities had said Monday all of the inmates would be t

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China sent no delegation to the birthday anniversary of North Korea's late leader, Kim Jong-il, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday.  North Korea commemorated the birthday of Kim, father of current leader Kim Jong-un, on Monday, with an event named the "Day of the Shining Star." Asked whether China sent a delegation to the North Korean event, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying replied that officials at the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang attended the event. "Yesterday was the Day o

North Korea Feb. 17, 2015

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observed a flight combat drill in his reclusive state, its state mouthpiece said Saturday, in what seems to be an expression of frustration over a continuing scattering of anti-North leaflets by activists in the South and Seoul's inaction in stopping the practice. Kim, the supreme commander of the 1.1-million-strong military, watched the drill by fighter and bomber groups under the Guards 1st Air, Anti-Air Division of the Air and Anti-Air Force of the Korean Peopl

North Korea Jan. 24, 2015

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit South Korea next week for discussions on North Korea and the alliance between Seoul and Washington, the State Department announced Friday.Sherman will be in Seoul on Jan. 28-29 for meetings with senior officials and non-governmental experts to discuss the alliance and North Korea issues, as well as regional and global priorities, the department said in a statement.It did not provide further specifics.Seoul is the second

North Korea Jan. 24, 2015

The United Nations will provide $2 million in aid to North Korea as part of its humanitarian efforts, a news report said Saturday.The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, part of the U.N. Secretariat responsible for humanitarian actions, plans to deliver the financial support to its peer organizations working in the reclusive regime, according to a new report by Radio Free Asia. The aid will be provided through the Central Emergency Response Fund, which has offered a total of $6.

North Korea Jan. 24, 2015

European Central Bank policy makers Benoit Coeure and Ignazio Visco underlined that their new bond-buying program will be extended if it doesn’t show results. “If we haven’t achieved what we want to achieve,” said Coeure, the ECB’s head of market operations, “then we’ll have to do more, or we have to do it for longer.” Visco, the Italian central-bank governor, said earlier on Friday that “we are open-ended” about asset purchases. Both men spoke in Bloomberg Television interviews in Davos, where

World News Jan. 24, 2015

A measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California has spread to six more US states and Mexico, and an international visitor to the theme park likely sparked the health alert, officials said Friday.Fifty-one confirmed cases of measles have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since late December, the US government agency said in a statement, most in California but others as far afield as Nebraska and Washington states.The CDC said those who had fallen ill were

World News Jan. 24, 2015

The highest-ranking US official to visit Cuba in three decades met with leading dissidents on Friday, but one prominent opposition figure stayed out amid differences over Washington's rapprochement with Havana.Roberta Jacobson, the State Department's top official for Latin America, met with seven government critics under crystal chandeliers at the lavish mansion of the head of the US Interests Section in Havana.The meeting came a day after Jacobson attended landmark talks with Cuban officials, i

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