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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 ...Saudi bans brides from 4 countries
Saudi men have been banned from marrying women from three Asian and one African country as the Gulf state toughens the rules ...Argentine woman in emotional meeting with long-lost grandson
An elderly Argentine woman hugged her long-lost grandson for the first time Wednesday in an emotional meeting, thirty-six years after he was ...Saudi beheads Nepalese maid for toddler murder
Saudi authorities on Monday beheaded a Nepalese housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said.At least 24 reported killed in Guinea beach concert stampede
At least 24 people were killed in a stampede at a beachside concert celebrating the end of Ramadan in Guinea\'s capital, news ...Germany wins World Cup, beating Argentina 1-0
Germany won the World Cup. Host Brazil won a world of new friends.




