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MORE than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said Monday, decrying a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure.” The UN’s ninth

BANGLADESH’S elite security force said they had arrested an Islamist Monday over last week’s murder of the atheist American blogger Avijit Roy, accusing him of being behind earlier death threats on social

HONG Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were arrested and then released Monday over their involvement in mass protests for free elections, the latest step in a widespread investigation that has been accused of seeking

BRITAIN’S Prince William met China’s Communist President Xi Jinping on Monday before strolling through the Forbidden City, the former home of the country’s deposed imperial dynasties. Xi warmly welcomed the second-in-line to

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva for talks on the Ukraine crisis Monday, less than a week after accusing Moscow of lying to

AUSTRALIA’S Senate has censured Attorney General George Brandis over the treatment of Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs, amid a row over child detainees. The censure motion, introduced on Monday by Labor

THE head of the US Army says he is “very concerned” about the impact of spending cuts on the UK’s armed forces. Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno voiced his reservations about

ARGENTINE President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has defended her economic policy in her last speech to Congress before stepping down later this year. She said Argentina was the only country in the

ESTONIA’S governing Reform Party won a national election overshadowed by security concerns sparked by Russia’s role in Ukraine. Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, whose party has 30 seats, is set to form a

NORTH Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea as annual US-South Korea military exercises got under way, officials in Seoul say. The two missiles, with a range of 490km (305 miles),