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Yemen rebels free US, Saudi, British hostages
Shiite rebels in Yemen released two Americans, two Saudis and a Briton on Sunday after detaining them for around six months, Yemeni ...Russian opposition draws thousands to anti-Putin protest
Russia\'s beleaguered opposition drew several thousand people on Sunday to a protest rally in an outlying Moscow neighborhood to decry the 15-year ...US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017
Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would significantly ...Nepal adopts new democratic constitution
Nepal adopted its first democratic constitution on Sunday in a largely peaceful event, a historic step for a nation that has seen ...Voting starts in Greek general elections
Voting has begun in Greece\'s general election, with opinion polls indicating a tight race between the left-wing incumbent Syriza party and the ...75 US-trained rebels enter Syria from Turkey
A batch of 75 rebels newly trained by US and coalition forces in Turkey to fight jihadists have entered northern Syria, a ...Al-Qaeda in Syria executes 56 regime troops
Al-Qaeda\'s Syria affiliate and its Islamist allies have executed at least 56 regime troops at a military airport they recently seized in ...African Union suspends Burkina Faso over military coup
The African Union announced Friday it was suspending Burkina Faso over Thursday\'s military coup, which has halted preparations for the west African ...Palestinians and Israel forces clash in Jerusalem, West Bank
Palestinians clashed Friday with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank after the Islamist movement Hamas called for a ...Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia over migrants
Migrants continued to stream through fields from Serbia into the European Union on Friday, undeterred by Croatia\'s closure of almost all road ...