The world this week
Britain's Prince Harry arrived in Canberra on Monday ahead of a one-month attachment with the Australian Army, as he moves towards his retirement from the British military. (Photo: AP)- US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro shook hands and sat near each other Friday at a historic Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to shed decades of animosity. (Photo: AFP)
- Distressing accounts released this week reveal the extent of Islamic State brutality against Yazidi women and children who were abducted from the town of Sinjar, in northern Iraq, and held hostage for over eight months. (Photo: AP)
- Iran will agree to a final nuclear accord with six major powers only if all sanctions imposed on the country over its disputed nuclear work are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Thursday. "We will not sign any deal
- A Taliban suicide car bomb targeted a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing at least three civilians as security forces brace for a full-blown insurgent offensive in the spring fighting season. (Photo: AFP)
- Top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Quamaruzzaman was hanged on Saturday night for committing war crimes and mass killing during Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, days after he lost his final bid to overturn his death sentence. (
- In a startling revelation, the country’s premier external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, in its report to the Centre on Saturday, has informed that the release of top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi has led to
- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabab warned Saturday of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College that killed 148 people. (Photo: AP)
- Radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant threat to human or marine life, scientists said on Monday. (Photo: AP)
- China, one of the world's biggest sources of outbound travellers, is beginning to blacklist its poorly behaved tourists after a string of reports about inappropriate behaviour by Chinese people while abroad. (Photo: AP)
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Britain's Prince Harry arrived in Canberra on Monday ahead of a one-month attachment with the Australian Army, as he moves towards his retirement from the British military. (Photo: AP)
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