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YEMEN’S ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has accused the Houthi militia that seized power last month of staging a coup. In his first statement since escaping house arrest in the capital Sanaa,

CARACAS Mayor Antonio Ledezma has been indicted for plotting violence against Venezuela’s government – a move condemned by the country’s opposition. The attorney general’s office said Mr Ledezma, 59, would remain in

A BOMB has killed at least two people, including a police officer, and injured 10 other people at a rally in Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv. The rally was one of several being

A FERRY has capsized in central Bangladesh, killing at least 33 people including a young baby. The ferry, carrying about 100 people aboard, collided with a trawler on the river Padma about

OUTSIDE the venue, a section of Hollywood Boulevard is sealed off ready for the annual influx of A-listers as well as lesser-known nominees from the other side of the camera. Security around

HSBC left itself open to criminal charges in the UK over its Swiss tax-dodging scandal, ex-director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald says. The QC said there were strong grounds to investigate

A bomb has killed at least three people and injured 10 at a patriotic rally in Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, in what police suspect was a terror attack. The device exploded at

POLICE in the Maldives have arrested opposition leader and former President Mohamed Nasheed. AP news agency quotes official sources as saying he was detained on terror charges over a 2012 order he

AUSTRALIA’S security hotline received 18 calls about a self-styled cleric just days before his deadly attack on a Sydney cafe – but none suggested an imminent attack, a report says. The first

US and British intelligence agencies hacked into a major manufacturer of Sim cards in order to steal codes that facilitate eavesdropping on mobiles, a US news website says. The Intercept says the