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The US has dismissed a commonly held notion that its rebalancing strategy and a planned significant presence in Asia-Pacific region was targeted against China or any other country.

Syrian activists say pro-government militia and security forces have killed at least 78 people, including women and children, in the central province of Hama. They say some of those killed in the villages of al-Kubeir and Maazarif Wednesday were stabbed to death and at least 12 bodies were burned.

The Economic Community of West African States, a regional group of 15 countries, has sent a distress call to the international community declaring that more than 6 million people, including one million children, are at risk of hunger in the Sahel region of Africa.

The Economic University of Athens is on the front line in the city’s immigration crisis. Immigrants and their student allies often clash with police and right-wing groups. A local resident supplied VOA with a video shot in early May showing a clash with police.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday arrived in China on a three day visit for a regional summit that would see the two powers coming closer to counterbalance the US push into Asia Pacific region, more with its naval power.

Pakistan military Tuesday said it had successfully test fired indigenously developed nuclear capable cruise missile with a range of 700 kms, enough to hit targets deep inside India.

With Pakistan yet to re-open its supply routes, NATO has concluded agreements with the Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to use their territory for evacuating vehicles and military equipment from Afghanistan.

SANAA, Yemen The Yemeni army, backed by tanks, battled Al-Qaeda militants in two southern towns, killing at least 26, the country's defense ministry announced Tuesday.

Chinese state media warned Tuesday, that Washington's planned military shift towards the Asia-Pacific threatens to create rifts between the two countries and may upset regional stability.

The White House says the killing of al-Qaida's second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, apparently in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, has further degraded the organization's leadership.