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Canadian coffee chain, Tim Hortons has been forced to apologise after one of their store managers poured a bucket of water over a homeless man and his dog outside one of its branches in Vancouver.  In […]

Russia have said that any military aid provided to Ukraine by the U.S. would be  interpreted as a declaration of war and would spark an escalation of the conflict.  Themoscowtimes.com reports: With Russia-backed rebels in […]

An Indian person who is “95% male” has given birth to twins after intensive treatment in what doctors said Monday was the “rarest of rare cases”. Yahoo News reports: The 32-year-old had an intersex condition in […]

New research by the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ shows that the Chinese civilisation is much older than originally thought.  Newhistorian.com reports: A study published in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National […]

President Obama has said today that he is considering sending weapons to Ukraine to help the country fight the Russian-backed separatists if diplomacy fails.  Foxnews.com reports: The comments came during a joint press conference with […]

Bulgarian protesters have held a demonstration to condemn the government’s plan to allow the setting up of a NATO military command base on the country’s soil. The demonstrators assembled in front of the presidency building […]

During his address at the Munich Security Conference, Ukrainian President Poroshenko showed off copies of Russian passports that he claimed belonged to Russian soldiers found on Ukrainian soil. Yet, Ukraine is unable to provide Moscow […]

President Poroshenko’s PR advisers are helping him turn speeches into a kind of performance art. Sadly for the Ukrainian leader, they are more Laurel and Hardy than Laurence Olivier. On Saturday, Poroshenko was again engaged […]

Pyongyang, North Korea have fired five short-range missiles into the east sea. Dw.de reports: Officials in North Korea test-fired five short-range missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Sunday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry […]

UPDATE:  Both the US-backed regime in Kiev and separatists have accused each other of causing the blast at the facility which was under control of local militias at the time. Speculation around the internet focused […]