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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 ...Iraqi Kurds say Mount Sinjar siege broken
Iraqi Kurds claimed Thursday to have broken a siege on a mountain where Yazidi civilians and fighters have long been ...Swiss central bank imposes negative interest rates
Following the fallout of the slide in the Russian ruble, Switzerland sought Thursday to prevent the Swiss franc from breaching ...IMF withholds bailout money for Cyprus
The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it won\'t release $108 million (88 million euros) in rescue money for bailed-out Cyprus ...EU leaders ready long confrontation with Russia
European Union leaders warned Moscow they were ready exercise their combined muscle over the long haul in a confrontation with ...