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Hurricane Maria bears down on battered Caribbean
Hurricane Maria strengthened rapidly on Monday as it blasted towards the eastern Caribbean, forcing exhausted islanders -- still recovering from megastorm Irma ...Aid group warns of death among Rohingya in Bangladesh
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water available for the huge numbers of them ...Russia rejects allegation it bombed U.S.-backed fighters in Syria
Russia\'s Defence Ministry on Sunday rejected allegations it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State militants ...North Korea fires missile over Japan
North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastwards over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, Seoul and Tokyo said, its latest provocation ...More than 250,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh: UN
More than a quarter of a million mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since fresh violence erupted in Myanmar last October, the ...Hurricane Irma kills 10, may hit Florida Sunday as Category 4
Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic toward Haiti on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least ...Israel hits Syria site reportedly used for chemical weapons
Syria\'s army accused Israeli warplanes of hitting one of its positions Thursday, killing two people in an attack that a monitor said ...International community condemns North Korea nuclear test
Countries around the world swiftly condemned North Korea\'s announcement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday, with South Korea calling for ...Frankfurt evacuates 60,000 people before defusing massive WWII bomb
Tens of thousands of residents of Germany\'s financial capital Frankfurt evacuated their homes on Sunday ahead of the planned defusing of a ...Nearly 400 die as Myanmar army steps up crackdown on Rohingya militants
Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar\'s northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably ...




