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The disclosure of leaked HSBC confidential documents that reveal how the Swiss bank was helping its wealthy clients, including several Greeks, to conceal millions of their assets, has caused global uproar during the last 24 hours.

Queen Elizabeth II on Friday celebrated 63 years on the British throne as she neared the record set by Queen Victoria for the longest-reigning monarch.        

Turkey?s requests to remove content from Twitter increased by 156 percent in the second half of 2014, according to the microblogging site?s biannual transparency report.

Overall, Twitter said the total number of removal requests had increased by 84 percent from the previous period, while the total number of affected accounts increased by 348 percent.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar on late Feb. 1 signed a new agreement to end more than 13 months of fighting in a civil war that has left tens of thousands dead.
 

The state of freedom in 2014 worsened significantly in many parts of the world, U.S. think-tank Freedom House?s annual report has said, emphasizing the impact President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has had on the decline of democracy in Turkey.

BELGRADE/ADDIS ABABA - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic had several bilateral meetings on the second day of the African Union Executive Council's session in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, including a meeting with Navtej Singh Sarna, Secretary (West) in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.

FM: Better ties with African Union states

ADDIS ABABA -- Serbia wants to develop good relations and economic and political cooperation with African Union member states, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.

ADDIS ABEBA - Serbia wants to develop good relations and economic and political cooperation with African Union member states, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, said on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, will be paying a visit to Ethiopia on Monday and Tuesday, January 26 and 27, to take part in the 26th session of the Executive Council of the African Union.

A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Africa has died days before he was to stand trial in New York A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa died on Jan. 2, days before he was to stand trial in New York, his lawyer said.