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UN chief calls for 30-day truce in South Sudan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday raised the possibility of a "special tribunal" to try those responsible for abuses in South ...Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to six years in prison for bribery conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes in the Holyland ...US surveillance aircraft deployed to search for Nigerian girls taken by Boko Haram
The United States said it is flying "manned" missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government ...Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 28 people
A wave of car bombings in Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that ...Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist ambush
An ambush by pro-Russian separatists has killed seven Ukrainian soldiers, the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash ...UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned Tuesday after trying for nearly two years to overcome “almost impossible odds” to end ...Turkish coal mine explosion kills hundreds
The death toll in a mine explosion in western Turkey jumped to 201, a provincial mayor told CNN Turk news channel on ...Lithuanian president faces second round in elections
Lithuania\'s presidential election is to go to a second round run-off after President Dalia Grybauskaite fell short of the 50 percent of ...Pro-Russian separatists declare victory in east Ukraine vote
Organizers of Sunday\'s independence referendum in Ukraine’s eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk say 89 percent of those who cast ballots voted in ...Missing Nigeria schoolgirls shown in new Boko Haram video
Boko Haram has released a new video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last month, alleging they had ...




