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New Year celebrations marked across the world
New Year\'s celebrations kicked off in New Zealand and Australia as revelers from around the world gathered Wednesday to say goodbye to ...Putin critic gets suspended sentence
A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence on Tuesday for embezzling money but jailed his brother ...Ebola returns to Europe with first case diagnosed in Britain
A healthcare worker recently back from Sierra Leone was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday by doctors in Scotland\'s largest city, ...U.S. adds four more Russians to human rights sanctions list
The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on four more Russians for alleged human rights abuses, including two officials said ...Ferry stricken by blaze fully evacuated, 10 dead
Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece\'s Adriatic coast in a ...U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan ends combat role; thousands of foreign troops remain
The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission on Sunday, more than 13 years after an international alliance ...One dead as hundreds await rescue on burning ferry
Italian and Greek helicopter crews worked into the night to airlift passengers off a burning ferry adrift in the Adriatic ...Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap hundreds of prisoners
Ukrainian authorities and separatists exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war on Friday, a spokesman for President Petro Poroshenko said, part ...Swedish PM calls off snap election after deal with center-right
Swedish center-left Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Saturday his government had reached a deal with the mainstream opposition that ...20 jihadists killed in failed east Syria airport attack
At least 20 Islamist State (IS) group members were killed in the second failed jihadist bid in a month to ...