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Islamic State attacks kill 51 Syrian soldiers in north
Attacks by Islamic State militants have killed 51 Syrian soldiers holed up in an air base in the northern province of Aleppo ...Woman with no pilot experience crash lands plane in Spain
A Spanish woman who had never flown a plane brought a micro-light aircraft in for a crash landing after her pilot husband ...Protests over draft Nepal charter turn violent, nine dead
Demonstrators armed with spears and axes killed eight police officers in western Nepal on Monday during escalating protests against a proposed new ...Russia launches military drills in Arctic
Russia launched military exercises in the Arctic on Monday as it seeks to bolster claims to the region\'s vast hydrocarbon and mineral ...Merkel, Hollande urge unified EU response to refugee crisis
Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande called Monday for a unified response to Europe\'s biggest migrant crisis since World War ...North, South Korea reach agreement to ease tensions
North and South Korea reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire that had pushed ...Britain reopens embassy in Iran
Britain\'s foreign secretary reopened his country\'s embassy in Tehran on Sunday in a long-awaited step signalling better relations four years after a ...South Korea slams North over submarine, artillery deployments
North Korea has mobilised dozens of submarines and doubled its artillery units along the border, South Korea said Sunday, accusing Pyongyang of ...Quake-hit Nepal opens Everest for climbing
Nepal Sunday opened Everest for the autumn season, granting its first climbing permit four months after a deadly earthquake triggered an avalanche ...Thousands of migrants cross Macedonia, Serbia heading for EU
Thousands of migrants, mostly Syrian refugees, travelled through Macedonia and Serbia on Sunday towards western Europe, as Italy\'s foreign minister said the ...




