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Taiwan votes in historic presidential election
Taiwanese voted for a new president Saturday, with the China-friendly Nationalist Party likely to lose power to the pro-independence opposition amid concerns ...Siege over at Burkina Faso hotel, restaurant, new assault ongoing
Security forces in Burkina Faso ended a siege Saturday at hotel and a restaurant that were stormed by Al Qaeda linked gunmen, ...Taiwan elects Tsai Ing-wen as first female president
Taiwan\'s independence-leaning opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen won a convincing victory in presidential election on Saturday and pledged to maintain peace with China, ...Jailed Maldives ex-president allowed to travel to UK for surgery
The Maldives\' opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, who is serving a 13-year jail term following a controversial trial, has been given permission to ...Merkel ally threatens legal action over refugee policy
A prominent ally of Germany\'s Angela Merkel has threatened to take her government to court over its open door refugee policy as ...U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has met commitments in landmark nuclear deal
The U.N. atomic agency announced Saturday that Iran has met all of its obligations under a landmark nuclear deal with six world ...New Ebola death in Sierra Leone as WHO says epidemic over
Tropical disease experts in Sierra Leone scrambled Friday to investigate a new suspected death from Ebola announced just hours after west Africa ...China shoots for first landing on dark side of the moon
China will launch a mission to land on the dark side of the moon in two years\' time, state media reported, in ...Trial begins for former Thai PM accused of mismanagement
Testimony has begun at the trial of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who faces up to 10 years in prison on ...Al-Shabab attack African Union base in Somalia
Somalia\'s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants stormed an African Union base Friday, the Somali army said, with witnesses reporting several dead.




