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Guatemala City, March 26 (IANS/EFE): No one was hurt, but more than 500 local shops were destroyed Tuesday when a fire swept through the main market in the Guatemalan capital, La Terminal, authorities said. Huge fire consumes more than 500 shops …

Washington DC, 25 March-2014(IANS):The Toyota i-Road may not be gender-specific, but it certainly takes Sheryl Sandberg’s advice to “lean in.” That’s because this three-wheeled electric vehicle takes a cue from motorcycles by leaning its operator into turns. Don’t quite understand? These tricycle …

THE HAGUE, 25March-2014 (Xinhua): China and the Netherlands decided on Sunday to build a comprehensive partnership that stresses openness and pragmatism, according to a joint statement issued by the two countries. Chinese Preseident wants Netherlands to build open and pragmatic …

MOSCOW, 24 March-2014 (ITAR-TASS): Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, says its mapping service, Yandex.Maps, will show Crimea as part of Ukraine only for users from Ukraine and Turkey. Yandex users from other countries will see the Black Sea peninsula as …

KIEV, 24 March 2014. (ITAR-TASS): Ukraine has recalled its ambassador in Belarus, Mykhailo Yezhel, over Belarus’s stance on Crimea, Yevgen Perebiynis, director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry information policy department, told a briefing on Monday. Ukraine recalls its ambassador from …

Rome, 24 March-2014 (IANS):Two former officials of state-controlled Italian defence and aerospace major Finmeccanica and two businessmen were arrested as part of a probe into allegations of bribery, the country’s financial police said Monday. Two former Finmeccanica officials arrested in …

Kulalampur, 24 Mrach-2014(AP): Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday that according to new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian P M Najib Razak Declares that flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean Image …

Bangalore, 24 March-2014 (IANS): The stand-off between Toyota India and its agitating employees continued as they refused to sign an undertaking for joining duty after eight-day lockout was lifted early Monday. Toyota India lifts lockout, workers refuse to budge “As we …

Washington DC, 23 March-2014(PTI): The US Federal Reserve’s latest hint at early ending of the monthly bond repurchases and that interest rates could start to rise from early 2015, is unlikely to have a major impact on India, according to analysts. …

Bogotá, 23 March-2014 (IANS/EFE): The Colombian government has deployed 700 additional security force members to the violence-wracked Pacific port city of Buenaventura, which has been plagued by killings, dismemberments and forced disappearances. Colombia militarises its violent port city of Buenaventura …