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North Korea Fails In New Missile Test

A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South's defence ministry said, two weeks after Pyongyang...

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Coalition Gathers To Hear Trump Islamic State Plan

The 68-nation US-led coalition against the Islamic State group will meet in Washington on Wednesday to accelerate...

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Israel Arrests Turkish Aid Agency Official For ‘aiding Hamas’

Israeli authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a Palestinian employee in Gaza of Turkey's international aid agency...

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Five Dead In Mogadishu Bombing As PM Unveils New Lineup

At least five people were killed when a vehicle laden with explosives blew up in Mogadishu on Tuesday, a local official...

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Cameroon Expelled 2,600 Nigerians Fleeing Boko Haram

More than 2,600 Nigerians who fled into northern Cameroon to escape Boko Haram jihadists have been forced to go home...

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Australian Probe Clears World Vision Over Gaza Case

An Australian government probe has found no evidence taxpayer money was misused by the World Vision NGO in the Gaza...

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North Korea Not Afraid of US Military Strike

North Korea said Monday it is not frightened by US threats of possible pre-emptive military action to halt its nuclear...

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Trump Campaign, Russia Ties Investigated, No Wiretap Evidence Found

FBI Director James Comey said for the first time Monday that the bureau is investigating whether there was any...

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UN Rejects Saudi-Led Coalition Call To Supervise Yemen Port

The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of...

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Russia ‘strikes Deal’ With Syrian Kurds To Set Up Base

Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that...

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Russia Wanted To Hurt US and Clinton, Help Trump

FBI Director James Comey said for the first time Monday that the bureau is investigating whether there was any...

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Libya Rescues 420 Migrants Off Its Coast

Libya has in two days rescued 420 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a navy spokesman said Monday,...

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Pentagon Launches Probe After Strike Near Syria Mosque

The US military is probing allegations that a strike targeting Al-Qaeda leaders near a mosque in northern Syria killed...

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Google Sorry For Adverts Alongside Extremist Content

A top Google executive on Monday apologised after UK company and government adverts appeared alongside extremist...

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David Rockefeller, Last Grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, Dies

David Rockefeller, a former head of Chase Manhattan bank and luminary in political and philanthropic circles, died...

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How It Happened, Casualty Toll, Other Details

The Kintampo waterfalls accident in the Brong Ahafo Region appears to be the most tragic in the country since the dawn...

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China Bans Brazil Meat In Health Scare

Brazil said Monday that China had suspended imports of meat from the South American country over police claims that...

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Syria Kurds Say Will Get Training From Russian Forces

Russia's military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, a spokesman said Monday, in the first agreement of its kind with...

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FBI Director To Testify On Russia Ties As Trump Slams ‘fake News’

The directors of the FBI and NSA are to give keenly awaited testimony before Congress Monday on what ties President...