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China issues highest alert for Typhoon Fitow
Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because of an ...US strikes al-Shabab in Somalia and captures bombing suspect in Libya
Senior al Qaeda figure Anas al-Liby, indicted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies ...4 NATO soldiers killed in Afghan operation
Four NATO soldiers were killed early Sunday in an operation in Afghanistan, the coalition forces said.Iraq violence claims 66 including pilgrims, journalists
Iraqi officials say the death toll from a suicide bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad has risen sharply, increasing the total ...Assad says Turkey will pay for supporting Syrian rebels
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said Turkey will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting against him, and accused it ...Children among five Afghans killed in NATO airstrike
The civilians, aged between 12 and 20, were killed overnight on Friday while they were out hunting birds in the area of ...Five killed as clashes rock Cairo
At least five people died in clashes on Friday as supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi mounted their boldest marches since troops ...Obama cancels Asia trip over U.S. government shutdown
U.S. President Obama has canceled a trip to Asia that was set to begin this weekend, because of the ongoing government shutdown in ...Italy mourns Lampedusa boat victims
Italy on Friday mourned the 300 African asylum-seekers feared dead in the worst ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, as debate raged over Europe\'s ...Shots fired at US Capitol, female suspect killed
A woman suspected of being involved in a car chase across central Washington was shot and killed by police outside the U.S. ...