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Syrian government says U.S.-led coalition hit army camp
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian ...French Socialists retreat further to ward off far-right
France\'s Socialist Party on Monday said it would pull its candidates out of a third regional poll, that of eastern France, adding ...Latvian PM Laimdota Straujuma resigns
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma announced her resignation on Monday, saying there was a need for "new ideas and contributions".Strong 7.2 quake strikes in Tajikistan, felt in New Delhi
An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck Tajikistan on Monday, shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and ...Azerbaijan says 29 missing after oil platform fire feared dead
Azeri state energy company SOCAR said on Sunday 29 workers missing after an oil platform in the Caspian Sea caught fire on ...Assad says British bombing in Syria will fail, ridicules PM Cameron
British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with ...16 killed, 5 hurt in firebomb attack at nightclub in Egypt
A firebomb attack on a nightclub in Cairo early Friday killed 16 people and wounded five others, authorities said. Police were looking for ...First of attacked Paris bars re-opens
A Paris bar where five people were killed by jihadist gunmen in the attacks three weeks ago became the first to re-open ...Turkish soldiers deployed in Mosul to train Iraqi troops: reports
More than 100 Turkish soldiers have been deployed to an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic ...Regime bombardment across Syria kills 56 civilians
Heavy government bombardment of rebel-held towns across Syria on Friday killed at least 56 civilians, more than a quarter of them children, ...