Chinese police shoot dead 13 attackers in Xinjiang
Chinese police have shot dead 13 people in the restive Xinjiang province after attackers drove into a public building and set off ...Kevlar inventor Stephanie Kwolek dies at 90
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Ukraine\'s President Petro Poroshenko announced a week-long unilateral ceasefire would begin Friday in the separatist east to give the pro-Russian rebels a ...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls for arms embargo on Syria
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria, in a ...Global refugee figures highest since Second World War, UN says
The number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people has surged to more than 50 million people, the first time since ...Seven Ukranian troops killed as rebels operate tanks
Seven Ukrainian troops were killed in overnight fighting in the restive east, Ukrainian officials said Friday, as clashes between government forces and ...Syria car blast kills dozens
A car bomb in Syria\'s western Hama province killed 34 and wounded more than 50, Syria\'s state news agency SANA said on ...Obama plans to send military advisers to Iraq
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he\'s prepared to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to “assess how we can ...Iraq asks for US air strikes, as extremists take control of largest oil refinery
Iraq has asked the US to stage air attacks on Sunni insurgents as the Islamist fighters edged closer to full control of ...Liberia reports seven new deaths linked to Ebola
A health official says seven people believed to have the Ebola virus have died in recent days in the Liberian capital, in ...
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