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Students killed in Nigeria college attack
Gunmen killed at least 42 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a Reuters witness said, in ...Syria air strike kills 16 in high school
A Syrian government air raid struck a high school in a rebel-held city in the country\'s north on Sunday, killing at least ...42 dead, 100 missing in Nigeria river boat accident
A boat has sunk on the River Niger in central Nigeria, leaving at least 42 people dead, officials say. Rescue teams are ...UN Security Council unanimously passes Syria chemical weapons resolution
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously late Friday to require Syria to eliminate its arsenal of chemical weapons, according to media reports.Twenty dead after refugee boat sinks on way to Australia
A boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia, most of them from the Middle East, has sunk off the Indonesian coast killing at ...Syria chemical weapons inspections could begin next week
International experts will begin inspecting Syria\'s chemical arsenal by Tuesday under a plan set to be approved by the world\'s top chemical ...UN experts 95% certain humans causing climate change
International scientists are 95 percent sure human activities are the main cause of global warming, an U.N. report to be released Friday ...US, Iran hold first major meeting since 1979 revolution
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met after the Iranian held wider talks with the ...Interpol issues warrant for British terror widow
Interpol issued a wanted persons alert at Kenya\'s request on Thursday for Samantha Lewthwaite, a British citizen dubbed the "White Widow", without ...Palestinians want Israel peace deal in 9 months
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will continue recently resumed negotiations with Israel with “an insistence on success” and the aim of ...