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Soyuz rocket with three astronauts blasts off for ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board, including the first Dane to fly into space, blasted off towards the International Space ...Turkey confirms 18 construction workers kidnapped in Baghdad
Turkey on Wednesday confirmed that 18 Turkish construction workers have been kidnapped by unknown individuals in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.Dominica pleads for help as storm death toll tops 30
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is pleading with world leaders to come to the rescue of his Caribbean island nation after it ...Migrants reach Germany as EU asylum rules collapse
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of ...Prison fire kills 17 in Venezuela
A fire at a prison in northern Venezuela has killed 17 people and injured another 11, prosecutors said Monday.IS destroys another ancient temple in Palmyra
The Islamic State jihadist group has blown up parts of the Temple of Bel in Syria\'s ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor ...European leaders call emergency meeting to address migrant crisis
European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks\' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented ...Clashes in Ukraine injure 100 officers after vote on east
Ukraine\'s parliament voted on Monday for constitutional changes to give separatist-minded eastern regions a special status - but divisions in the pro-Western ...Egypt summons British ambassador over Al-Jazeera comments
Egypt summoned the British ambassador to reject as "unacceptable interference" comments he made on an Egyptian court\'s decision to hand down prison ...Fire at Saudi oil company residential complex kills 11
At least 11 people were killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia Sunday when a fire broke out at a residential complex ...