Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as ...Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in
Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town ...Hong Kong protests face test of stamina as city returns to work
Hong Kong started to return to work on Monday after more than a week of pro-democracy protests disrupted the Chinese-controlled city, with ...Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day
Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease ...Mexico prosecutor says mass grave held 28 bodies
Mexican forensic experts recovered 28 charred bodies from a clandestine grave on the outskirts of this city where police engaged in a ...Kurds battle for key Syria town, woman suicide bomber hits IS
Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town Sunday, with one woman defender ...Hong Kong student leaders urge protesters to regroup in heart of city
Student leaders in Hong Kong called on pro-democracy supporters on Sunday to decamp from outlying protest sites and join the bulk of ...Kurds battle Islamist militants closing in on Syrian town
Kurdish forces battled overnight with Islamists trying to seize a hill overlooking a Syrian border town with Turkey as U.S.-led coalition warplanes ...Brazil votes for next president after dramatic campaign
Brazilians vote Sunday in the most unpredictable presidential election in decades and the first since the end of an economic boom underpinning ...Typhoon Phanfone churns toward Tokyo with heavy wind, rain
A powerful typhoon was on course to hit the Tokyo area on Monday, after barreling into southwestern Japan with heavy rain and ...
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