Thousands flee as Typhoon Koppu hits Philippines
Powerful Typhoon Koppu wrecked houses, tore down trees and unleashed landslides and floods, forcing thousands to flee as it pummelled the northern ...Egypt votes in parliamentary elections
Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country ...Germany paid FIFA members bribes for 2006 World Cup
The German Football Federation (DFB) insisted on Friday that a 6.7 million euro ($7.6 million) payment made by the 2006 World Cup ...Turkey seeks EU cash, visas, for help on refugee crisis
Turkey demanded on Thursday that the European Union start easing restrictions on Turks traveling to the EU next year if it wants ...Mideast violence spikes despite new Israeli measures
Israel has struggled to curb a spate of violence that has raised fears of a full-blown uprising, with more knife attacks shaking ...Britain refuses to grant Assange safe passage for medical check
Britain has refused Ecuador\'s request to give Julian Assange safe passage for a medical checkup after he had a sharp pain in ...Turkey suspends Ankara police, intelligence, security chiefs after bombing
Turkey\'s interior ministry said it had removed the police, intelligence and security chiefs of Ankara from their posts in an effort to ...Seven children among 13 killed in Pakistan landslide
Thirteen people including seven children were crushed to death in Karachi Tuesday when a rare landslide struck their thatch huts as they ...Police raid Save the Children offices in Nauru
The offices of Save the Children workers helping asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru have been raided by police, the aid ...U.S. airdrops ammunition to Syria rebels
U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in ...
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