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Palestinian PM pledges Gaza control in first visit since 2015
Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah arrived in Gaza Monday for his first visit in two years, saying the Palestinian Authority would assume ...Spain in crisis after Catalan independence vote
Spain vowed Monday to stop Catalonia from declaring independence after a banned referendum that saw riot police use batons and rubber bullets, ...Nissan recalls 1.2 million Japan vehicles for re-inspections
Nissan is recalling 1.2 million vehicles in Japan that were produced between October 2014 and September this year to re-inspect them because ...Defiant Catalans vote on split from Spain despite crackdown
Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a ...Germany celebrates first gay marriages
Germany celebrates its first gay marriages Sunday as same-sex unions become legal after decades of struggle, but campaigners say the battle for ...Madagascar plague outbreak kills 24, triggering WHO fears
The World Health Organisation said Sunday it was boosting its response to a plague outbreak in Madagascar that has killed 24 people, ...Baghdad piles pressure on Iraqi Kurds to reverse overwhelming independence vote
Baghdad heaped pressure on Iraq\'s Kurds on Wednesday, demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central ...Cameroon accused over Nigerian Boko Haram refugees
Cameroon on Wednesday denied allegations by a human rights group that it had forcibly returned about 100,000 Nigerian refugees in breach of ...Merkel wins fourth term, hard right gains foothold in parliament
Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a fourth term in Germany\'s election Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the entry into parliament of ...Mass grave of 28 Hindus found in Myanmar
Myanmar\'s army said Sunday it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and children, in violence-wracked ...




