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US shutdown looms amid stalemate
U.S. President President Barack Obama said on Monday he is not resigned to a U.S. government shutdown taking place with a midnight ...Car bombs across Baghdad kill at least 60
A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 150, ...Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav found guilty; jailed
A former Indian minister, Laloo Prasad Yadav, has been sent to jail after he was convicted in a long-running corruption case.Cygnus spacecraft docks at International Space Station
An unmanned U.S. commercial cargo ship flew itself to the International Space Station on Sunday, completing the primary goal of its debut ...Students killed in Nigeria college attack
Gunmen killed at least 42 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a Reuters witness said, in ...Syria air strike kills 16 in high school
A Syrian government air raid struck a high school in a rebel-held city in the country\'s north on Sunday, killing at least ...Rare bomb attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital kills 26
At least 26 people are reported to have died after a suicide bomber targeted mourners at a Shia Muslim mosque south of ...Twenty dead after refugee boat sinks on way to Australia
A boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia, most of them from the Middle East, has sunk off the Indonesian coast killing at ...UN Security Council unanimously passes Syria chemical weapons resolution
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously late Friday to require Syria to eliminate its arsenal of chemical weapons, according to media reports.France sanctions Google for European privacy law violations
French regulators have said they will sanction Google for failing to comply with the country\'s privacy laws, in a challenge to the ...