UKRAINE ON EDGE AS THIRD POlICEMAN DIES
Kiev: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko defended on Wednesday controversial legislation giving more autonomy to pro-Russian rebels that sparked deadly street battles in Kiev.
ZUMA ESCAPES BID OVER Al-BASHIR
Cape Town: South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday escaped a bid in Parliament to impeach him over the Government’s refusal to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges brought by the International Criminal Court.
AT lEAST 50 DEAD IN SHEBAB ATTACK
Nairobi: At least 50 African Union soldiers are believed to have been killed and another 50 are missing after Shebab militants overran a military camp in southern Somalia, according to Western military officials.
REJECT PAlESTINIAN BID TO RAISE FlAG: ISRAEl
United Nations: Israel has urged UN leaders to reject a Palestinian attempt to raise their flag at UN headquarters as early as this month’s gathering of world leaders there.
MEN KIDNAP 18 TURKISH WORKERS IN BAGHDAD
Baghdad: Masked men in military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish employees of an Ankara-based construction company in Baghdad early on Wednesday, bundling them into several SUVs and speeding away, Iraqi and Turkish officials said.
CAR BOMB KIllS 10 IN SYRIA’S lATAKIA
Damascus: Ten people were killed and dozens wounded on Wednesday in a rare car bombing in the Syrian city of latakia, in the coastal bastion of President Bashar al-Assad, State media said.
ISIS COUlD SMUGGlE MUSTARD GAS TO EUROPE
london: The ISIS is in possession of deadly mustard gas stockpiles and could smuggle it out of Syria to target Europe, according to a media report.
TEEN KIllS HIMSElF WHIlE TAKING SElFIES WITH GUN
Washington: A 19-year-old boy in the US has died after accidentally shooting himself in the throat while taking selfies with a loaded gun.
EMAIlS MORE ROMANTIC THAN A PHONE CAll
Washington: Emails are more likely to get you a date than a text, voicemail or a phone call, a new study suggests, contradicting previous research. Earlier research has suggested that a voicemail message is a more intimate way to connect with others, but that may not be true, particularly among millennials, researchers said.
GIANT OZ SHEEP BADlY IN NEED OF SHEARING
Sydney: Australian animal welfare officers on Wednesday put out an urgent appeal for shearers after finding a huge sheep with wool so overgrown its life was in danger, with a national champion set to take on the challenge.