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Obama authorizes 1,500 more US troops for Iraq
President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ...Putin beats Obama again in Forbes power ranking
For a second year in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin has beaten Barack Obama to the title of world\'s most powerful ...Washington Post former editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93
In a charmed life of newspapering, Ben Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place.120m girls sexually abused says UN
About 120 million girls worldwide have been forced to have sex, according to a United Nations report.Comedian Joan Rivers dies aged 81
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger ...Palestinian Druze poet Samih al-Qasim dies at 75
Samih al-Qasim, a Palestinian Druze poet known across the Arab world for his nationalist writing, died Tuesday after a long battle with ...Boko Haram kidnap men and boys in northeast Nigeria
Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, ...US actor Robin Williams dead at 63 in apparent suicide
Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and ...Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery
A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters ...Snowden receives three-year Russian residence permit: lawyer
Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs, has been ...