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US Navy Carrier Stops Off In Israel On Break From IS Fight

A US Navy supercarrier anchored off the Israeli port of Haifa Saturday on a break from operations supporting the US-led...

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25 Migrants Found Dead On Libya Coast

The bodies of at least 25 migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe were found near Tripoli Tuesday, the Libyan Red...

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Israel Strikes Hamas Bases In Gaza After Rocket

Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight, officials said, hours after a rocket...

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Morocco Detains Four As Rif Protests Persist

Moroccan police have detained four people in northern Morocco, an official and an activist said, as protests continued...

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Move To Re-Write Venezuelan Constitution Amid Planned Protests

Venezuela's opposition called for weekend protests as Thursday's deadline neared for candidates for an assembly to...

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Prayers In the Crossfire of Deadly Philippine Urban Battle

Muhamer Macayman cowered for four days as bullets tore through the shanty home he was hiding in, praying neither the...

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Ex-Worker Kills Two Staff At Saudi School

A 'disgruntled' ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third, the school's...

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ISIS Murder 19 Civilians In South Philippines

ISIS-linked terrorists have murdered 19 civilians in the Philippines including a woman and a child. This week 85 people...

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2,000 Trapped As Fighting Rages In Philippine City

Two thousand fearful civilians were trapped on Sunday inside a southern Philippine city where troops are battling...

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Islamist Militants Kill 19 In South Philippines

Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19...

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Greek Goddess of Justice Statue Is Removed In Bangladesh

Religious hardliners in Bangladesh removed a controversial statue depicting the blindfolded Greek goddess of justice...

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Philippine Troops Battle Islamist Militants In City

Philippine troops aboard helicopters and in armoured tanks battled Islamist militants inside a southern city on...

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Multiple Injuries As Car Hits People In NY’s Times Square

A car struck pedestrians in New York's Times Square on Thursday, causing multiple injuries in one of the most popular...

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Clashes Erupt As Palestinians Mark ‘Nakba’

Palestinians marching to remember those displaced at the time of the 1948 founding of Israel clashed with Israeli...

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Libya Intercepts 350 Migrants After Duel At Sea

Libya's coastguard on Wednesday intercepted a wooden boat packed with more than 350 migrants after duelling with a...

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Car Bomb Hits Thailand’s Troubled South, Injures 51

More than 50 people including children were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in...

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Looters Cause Chaos At Deadly Philippine Fire

Looters mobbed a deadly slum fire in the Philippine capital on Tuesday, pulling roofing sheets and electric wire from...

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First Evacuations From Damascus Rebel District

Syrian rebels and their families begin evacuating from a district of the capital Damascus for the first time on Monday,...

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First Evacuations From Damascus Rebel District

Syrian rebels and their families began leaving a northern district of the capital on Monday, state television said, in...