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Almost two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public, says an EU report.
US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have insisted Bashar Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks.
A cyclone has ripped into the Bangladeshi coast as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters.
The United States says it will refuse to send its ambassador to any meeting of the UN forum where nuclear disarmament is negotiated when it is chaired by Iran.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has called on rival Bangladesh political parties to calm tensions ahead of a looming election.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Damascus of trying to drag his country into the Syrian "quagmire".
South Korea and a US strike force led by a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has kicked off a joint naval drill slammed by North Korea.
Syria has threatened an immediate response to any new Israeli strike, with its militant ally Hezbollah saying Damascus will provide "game-changing" weapons.
As many as 3 000 AU peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia in recent years in an attempt to end an Islamist insurgency, the UN says.
Nearly 30 people have been kidnapped in eastern DRC by the M23 rebels in their fief of Rutshuru since the beginning of April, says a community leader.
Attackers have killed a Pakistan peacekeeper in an ambush in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says.
In his first response to Israel's weekend airstrikes, President Bashar Assad says Syria is capable of facing Israel.
Seven people have been killed after a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation.
Syria's main opposition group has accused President Bashar Assad's regime of committing a "large-scale massacre" in a Sunni village, killing at least 50.
Two teens in eastern China have committed suicide after "failing to complete homework assignments" state-run media says.
