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Uruguay flooding forces 4,000 from their homes
Flooding from days of heavy rain in Uruguay has forced nearly 4,000 people from their homes, officials said Monday.Civilians, soldiers die in east Ukraine fighting as Putin visits Crimea
Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers and ...South Sudan rivals hold peace talks on deadline day
South Sudan\'s warring rivals held peace talks Monday in a bid to broker a deal to end its civil war, hours ahead ...Brazil protesters target president Dilma Rousseff
Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff\'s resignation Sunday, blaming her and the leftist Workers\' Party for runaway corruption ...54 feared dead in Indonesia plane crash
An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia\'s remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, ...Syria regime air raids kill 70 civilians near Damascus
At least 70 people were killed Sunday in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held ...17 Iraqi troops killed by IS militants near Fallujah
Islamic State militants launched an attack against government troops Sunday outside the militant-held city of Fallujah, killing at least 17 troops, officials ...Minister among 10 killed in Pakistan suicide attack
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the home of an anti-Taliban provincial minister, killing him and 10 others in eastern Pakistan, ...US hostage raped by top IS leader before death
US hostage Kayla Mueller was raped repeatedly by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State jihadist group, before her ...Death toll from China blasts rises to 104, Xi urges changes
The death toll from two massive explosions that tore through an industrial area in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin has risen ...