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Car bomb near cafe kills 11 in central Iraq
A car bomb outside a northeastern Iraqi cafe has killed at least 11 people.Thai PM dissolves Parliament, calls elections
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has dissolved parliament and called an election, after sustained protests in the capital, Bangkok.Mass protests in Ukrainian capital
Anti-government protesters toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine\'s capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in ...US Defence Chuck Hagel meets Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in Pakistan for talks with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and new army chief Raheel Sharif.French troops arrive in Central African Republic amid violence
French troops received a triumphant welcome Saturday on the streets of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, as warplanes and helicopters ...Dozens killed in north Kenya inter-ethnic fighting
Kenyan officials and relief workers say fresh clashes erupted between rival ethnic groups in the country\'s north on Saturday, a day after ...Syrian Islamists seize Western-backed rebel bases: monitoring group
Syrian rebels from an Islamist alliance formed last month have occupied bases and warehouses belonging to a Western-backed rebel group on the ...Greece approves more austerity cuts
Greece\'s parliament has approved a budget plan filled with over 3 billion euros of austerity cuts with the hope that the debt-laden ...Yemen army sweeps capital after deadly attack
Yemeni security forces have launched a sweep in the capital to find the perpetrators of a deadly attack on the country\'s defence ...South Africa and world mourn Nelson Mandela
South Africans are mourning the death of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, the country\'s first black president, who died Thursday at the age ...