[World] Marines issue: Diplomacy is at work, says Khurshid

Marines issue: Diplomacy is at work, says Khurshid
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/marines-issue-diplomacy-is-at-work-says-khurshid/article4537272.ece
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that diplomacy is at work resulting in Italy's decision to send back two marines charged in the fishermen killing case and parried questions on Italian media reports that Congress president Sonia Gandhi ...

Pro-Assad Syria cleric among mosque bomb dead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21890929
One of the most prominent Sunni supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has been killed in a blast at a mosque in the capital, Damascus.

Sarkozy accused of duping L'Oreal heiress
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/p1t025dv5pZqM7VFY98CeO/Nicolas-Sarkozy-investigated-in-partyfunding-affair.html
PARIS - A judge filed preliminary charges against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday, opening a formal investigation into an accusation that he abused the confidence of an heiress during fundraising for his 2007 election campaign.

Vidya Balan, Rajkumar Hirani at Sanjay Dutt's home
http://www.indianexpress.com/picture-gallery/vidya-balan-rajkumar-hirani-meet-sanjay-dutt/2352-1.html
Bollywood celebs like Vidya Balan, Sophie Choudry and director Rajkumar Hirani rushed to meet Sanjay Dutt after the actor was sentenced to five years in jail in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

Mountaineer George Lowe, who helped Edmund Hillary conquer Everest dies
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/mountaineer-george-lowe-who-helped-edmund-hillary-conquer-everest-dies-345552
Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealander George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary that conquered Everest in 1953, has died aged 89.

UN Elevates Probe of North Korean Abuses
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324373204578374042193480664.html
The move, which came at a meeting of the council in Geneva on Thursday, is designed to put closer international scrutiny on North Korea's network of political prison camps, which hold as many as 200,000 people, and the played by its top officials in alleged ...

Bangladesh president dies in Singapore: officials
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/zillur-rahman-a-revered-statesman/article4535022.ece
DHAKA - Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, officials said.

Iran's leader threatens to level cities if Israel attacks, criticizes US nuclear talks
http://rt.com/news/iran-khamenei-israel-attack-604/
Iran's leader said in a speech that the country would annihilate the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it were attacked by Israel, and criticized the U.S.