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Obama unveils U.S. immigration reform, setting up fight with Republicans
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 ...Japan raises military profile in naval war games with U.S.
Japan stepped up its role in large-scale war games with the United States this week, with one of its admirals commanding air ...Burkina Faso names army colonel Zida as prime minister
Burkina Faso\'s transitional government named Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida as prime minister on Wednesday, four days after he restored the ...Israel approves 78 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
Israel on Wednesday approved the construction of 78 new homes in two settlements on West Bank land annexed to Jerusalem, likely to ...Suicide car bomb kills five in Iraqi Kurdish capital
A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives blew himself up in the capital of Iraq\'s Kurdistan region on Wednesday, killing ...Ukraine rules out direct talks with separatists
Russia urged Ukraine\'s leaders on Wednesday to talk directly to separatists to end the conflict in the east, but Kiev rejected the ...Islamic State group beheads US aid worker
An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a ...G20 commits to higher growth, fight climate change; Russia isolated over Ukraine
Leaders from the G20 group of nations agreed on Sunday to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack ...Defying odds, comet lander phones home
The mission of the first robotic probe to land on a comet reached a high point on Friday when the spacecraft radioed ...Britain prepared to walk away from EU: foreign minister
Britain will walk away from negotiations with European Union partners if its pleas for immigration reform are ignored, raising the real possibility ...




