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Russia plans to use prison labor for 2018 World Cup
Russian authorities want to use prison labor to drive down the costs of holding the 2018 World Cup.
Japan to join U.S., Australia war games amid growing China tensions
Japan will join a major U.S.-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions...
Malaysia finds 139 mass graves in ‘cruel’ trafficking camps
Malaysian authorities have found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by...
‘Poisoned’ rice is attempt to bring down Govt., says Indonesia chief
Indonesia’s home minister has called for a police investigation into suspected contamination of rice with plastic, saying it may be an attempt at...
Massacre: Syria says Islamic State killed hundreds in Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago,...
Malaysia finds 139 graves in extensive migrant ‘detention’ camps
Malaysian authorities have found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by...
Female peace activists make rare crossing of North-South Korea border
An international group of female activists, including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates, were denied an attempt to walk across the Demilitarized...
Catholic Church needs a ‘reality check’, says Archbishop of Dublin
The Archbishop of Dublin has said the Catholic Church needs a “reality check” following Ireland’s landslide vote to legalise gay marriage.
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi after bloody battle
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi late Saturday night, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the...
Israel thanks U.S. for stand on Mideast nuclear arms ban at U.N.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for blocking an Egyptian-led drive on a possible Middle East nuclear weapons ban at...
Over 580 Bolivian school children hospitalised after eating chicken sandwiches
More than 580 children have suffered food poisoning after being given chicken sandwiches for breakfast at a school in northern Bolivia.
China: U.S. actions in S. China Sea are ‘irresponsible’ and 'dangerous’
China said on Friday it was “strongly dissatisfied” after a U.S. spy plane flew over part of the South China Sea this week near where China...
Briton who made bombs to kill U.S. troops in Iraq gets 38 years in jail
A British bomb-maker found guilty of building improvised explosive devices to kill U.S.
New York celebrates opening of World Trade Center deck
Testament to the regeneration of New York, nearly 14 years after the 9/11 attacks, is the new observation deck at the World Trade Center, offering spectacular...
Islamic State takes ‘full control’ of ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have entered the ruins of Palmyra after overnight fighting saw them take complete control of the historic city, according to a monitoring...
Ancient tools pre-date earliest humans
Stone tools were being used 3.3 million years ago by creatures that pre-dated the earliest known ancestors of modern humans, scientists have learned.
Declassified documents reveal a bin Laden haunted by surveillance fears
In his last years at his final hideout, Osama bin Laden was haunted by his accurate hunch that he was being hunted by a remorseless and technologically...
Israeli prime minister calls off West Bank bus segregation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday overturned a ban on Palestinians riding the same buses as Jewish settlers, a measure condemned by...
IS enters Syria’s Palmyra as U.S. takes ‘hard look’ at Iraq strategy
Jihadists from the Islamic State group were in almost full control of Syria’s historic city of Palmyra on Wednesday night after the withdrawal of...
Kim Jong-Un ruffles feathers at North Korean turtle farm
An angry North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un left managers shell-shocked after a visit on Tuesday to a terrapin farm.
Rescuers search for survivors after 58 killed in Colombia landslide
Rescuers searched for more bodies and sought to aid the hundreds of survivors of a deadly flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains that swept through...
Rescuers search for survivors after 58 killed in Colombia landslide
Rescuers searched for more bodies and sought to aid the hundreds of survivors of a deadly flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains that swept through...
First Arabic-speaking Catholic saints as Pope canonizes Palestinian nuns
Pope Francis named two Palestinian women as saints on Sunday, in a ceremony in Saint Peter’s Square just days after the Vatican formalized its de...
Pope calls Palestinian leader Abbas “angel of peace” during visit
Pope Francis praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as an “angel of peace” during a meeting at the Vatican that underscored the Holy See’s...
Two dead, 20 injured as German train collides with tractor trailer
Two people were killed and 20 others injured Saturday when a passenger train collided with a tractor trailer carrying manure in northwest Germany, police...
Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death
The former Egyptian leader, who was ousted from office in a 2013 military coup, was found guilty of passing along state secrets and a mass prison break.
New mystery in Amtrak train crash: Was it hit by a flying object?
The Amtrak train that derailed along one of the U.S’ busiest tracks may have been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators...
More than 1,000 migrants land in SE Asia with tales of horror at sea
More than 1,000 people fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh came ashore Friday around Southeast Asia, describing murder, extortion...
Obama says Syrian war not likely to end before he leaves office
US President Barack Obama said the war in Syria would not likely end before he leaves office in early 2017 and reaffirmed his belief that there is no “military...
Wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter found in Nepal; no survivors
The wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission in Nepal was found on Friday high on a mountainside, with all eight on...
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