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Sri Lanka Navy Rescues Two Elephants Washed Out To Sea
Two young elephants washed out to sea were saved from drowning Sunday by the Sri Lankan navy in the second such...
Afghanistan’s Shiites Mark Anniversary of Deadly Attack
Silently, the figures climb the hill in a dusty breeze to reach the gravestones of their loved ones. The site west of...
Tibetan Student Dies After Setting Himself Alight In India
A Tibetan student who self-immolated in an act of protest against Chinese rule in the Himalayan region has died in an...
Syrian Refugee Mardini Returns To Hungary For World Swimming Champs
Two years on from sleeping rough in Budapest on a perilous trek from Syria to Germany, teenage refugee Yusra Mardini is...
Jerusalem Holy Site Crisis
Eight people have been killed in a weekend of violence following new Israeli security measures at an ultra-sensitive...
Erdogan Visits Gulf In Hope of Easing Qatar Crisis
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began on Sunday a key visit to the Gulf region aimed at defusing the standoff around...
Horton Sets Up Sun Showdown At World Swimming Championships
Olympic champion Mack Horton set up a showdown with Chinese superstar Sun Yang on Sunday after the Australian squeezed...
Yemen Cholera Cases Could Exceed 600,000 In 2017
More than 600,000 people are expected to contract cholera in Yemen this year, the International Committee of the Red...
Afghan Police Search For Villagers After Mass Kidnapping
Afghan police on Sunday launched a search for some 30 villagers still missing two days after a mass kidnapping blamed...
Eight People Found Dead In Tractor Trailer In Texas Parking Lot
Eight people were found dead Sunday in a truck in a parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent people...
Last Chance To See North Korea For US Tourists
The Westerners lined up on Sunday before giant statues of North Korea´s founder Kim Il-Sung and his son and successor...
Syria Strikes Hit Near Damascus Despite Ceasefire
Syria's regime carried out air raids on one of the last rebel strongholds near Damascus Sunday, a monitor said, a day...
Two Biggest Parties Neck-and-Neck In East Timor Election
The two largest parties in East Timor's parliamentary election were neck-and-neck, according to preliminary results...
Netanyahu Faces Pressure Over Holy Site After Violence Kills Eight
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced mounting pressure Sunday over new security measures at a sensitive...
Erdogan Says Prolonging Gulf Crisis ‘not In Anyone’s Interest’
Prolonging the crisis in the Gulf sparked by the isolation of Qatar is not in the interest of anyone, Turkish President...
New White House Communications Boss Deletes Tweets Trump Would Not…
Donald Trump's new communications chief has deleted tweets in which he shared views contrary to the US presidents' own,...
Shoot Drug Traffickers If Resist Arrest
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has ordered the police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in the latest...
A Dangerous Route To Manhood
Naked, covered in white clay mud, and with his penis wrapped in leaves, Abongile Maqegu, 20, sits in a hut in South...
Headway On AIDS Threatened By Funding Slowdown
Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump's...