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Canada court orders tobacco firms to pay smokers $12.4 bn
A Canadian court on Monday ordered tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US12.4 billion) to smokers in Quebec province who claimed they ...Regional powers launch new South Sudan peace effort
A fresh bid to end 17 months of civil war in South Sudan was launched by regional powers on Monday with a ...Former German Chancellor Kohl in intensive care
Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, is in intensive care at a clinic in Heidelberg after surgery on his ...Egypt court postpones final ruling on Morsi death sentence
An Egyptian court postponed on Tuesday issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and ...Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer\'s governing ...South Africa admits paying $10M but denies FIFA bribe
South Africa denied that a $10 million payment it made in 2008 was in any way a bribe to FIFA for the ...Bad weather casts doubt on solar Pacific flight
Solar Impulse 2 was in a holding pattern near Japan on Monday as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead ...US Patriot Act spy provisions expire as Senate deal fails
Key provisions of the US Patriot Act expired early Monday after the Senate failed to prevent their lapse, plunging US national security ...Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing ...Deadly violence hits Nigeria as new President Buhari takes office
A suicide bombing killed 26 people inside a mosque in northeast Nigeria\'s city of Maiduguri on Saturday, hours after Boko Haram launched ...