World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft
A major corruption storm that engulfed FIFA sent shock waves around world football Wednesday and led to calls to suspend a vote ...Former British PM Blair quits as Middle East envoy
Tony Blair resigned Wednesday as the Quartet diplomatic group\'s envoy, his office said, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he worked to end as ...FARC peace negotiator killed in Colombia strike
The Colombian armed forces\' aerial bombing campaign against leftist guerrillas killed a member of the rebel negotiating team who had participated in ...Saudi-led airstrikes on police headquarters kill 45 in Yemen
Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 45 soldiers on Wednesday when they targeted a rebel troop headquarters in the Yemeni capital as the United ...FIFA officials arrested over corruption charges, face US extradition
Six soccer officials, including some high-ranking members of world governing-body FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition ...Fire at China nursing home kills 38
Thirty-eight people were killed in a fire at a home for senior citizens in China\'s central Henan province, state media said, the ...Iraq launches operation to drive Islamic State from Anbar
Iraq\'s Shi\'ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of ...Syrian airstrikes kill 140 IS militants
The Syrian air force hit an Islamic State-controlled air base in Raqqa province on Tuesday, killing more than 140 militants, state media ...Mexico and Texas struck by deadly storms
At least 13 people died and dozens more were injured after a freak tornado ripped through the northern Mexican city of Ciudad ...Colombian government, FARC rebels resume peace talks
The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas resumed peace talks Monday in Havana amid heightened tensions following air strikes that killed dozens of ...
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