Hezbollah promises Syria 'victory'An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube by Qusair Media Centre on 24 May 2013

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group promises victory in Syria where his supporters are backing President al-Assad, amid an upsurge in fighting there.

Congress party leader Mahendra Karma with his bodyguards. File photo'Maoist rebels' kill 17 in India

At least 17 people, including a senior leader of India's governing Congress party, are killed after their convoy was attacked by Maoist rebels, officials say.

Police at the scene of the stabbing, La Defense, near Paris (25 May)French soldier stabbed near Paris

French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of the murder of Dummer Lee Rigby, killed in London this week.

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