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Colombia to complete talks with FARC rebels by July 20 -president
Colombia will have completed negotiations with leftist FARC rebels by July 20, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday, in what would ...Several Jordanian troops killed, hurt in car bomb attack
A car bomb attack killed a number of Jordanian border guards in a remote area of the border with Syria on Tuesday ...Global migrant tide swells to record 65 million
The number of refugees and others fleeing their homes worldwide has hit a new record, spiking to 65.3 million people by the ...Taliban suicide blast kills 14 Nepalese guards in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 14 Nepalese security guards in a blast targeting their Kabul minibus, officials said, the first claimed attack ...Bashir declares ceasefire in Blue Nile, South Kordofan
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has declared a four-month ceasefire in two states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, where recent fighting between ...Belgian authorities arrest 12 in major anti-terror raid
Belgian authorities have raided dozens of homes and arrested 12 suspects in a major anti-terror investigation which they said required "immediate intervention."3 International Space Station astronauts land in Kazakhstan
An International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian landed safely Saturday in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan.No food, no teachers, violence in failing Venezuela schools
Maria Arias slipped her notebooks into her backpack, scrounged for a banana to share with her brother and sister, and set off ...34 migrants, including 20 children, found dead in Niger desert
The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach neighbouring Algeria were found ...Wreckage of EgyptAir plane found in Mediterranean
Egypt found wreckage including seats and luggage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, as investigators tried to unravel ...