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Fighting between Turkey and Kurds escalate amid NATO unease
Fighting between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels escalated Tuesday amid signs of unease from NATO allies attending an emergency meeting about ...560,000-year-old tooth found in southern France
A 16-year-old French volunteer archaeologist has found an adult tooth dating back around 560,000 years in southwestern France, in what researchers hailed ...Eurotunnel says 2,000 migrants tried to enter premises overnight
About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Eurotunnel terminal in the French port town of Calais overnight in a desperate bid to ...Over 10,000 Finns rally in support of multiculturalism
Over ten thousand people rallied in Helsinki Tuesday to support multiculturalism and protest recent controversial statements by a populist legislator, police said.US, Turkey join forces to drive Islamic State from Syria
The US and Turkey have agreed to work together to drive Islamic State jihadists from northern Syria, senior US officials said, as ...Peru frees children held by Shining Path rebels
Authorities in Peru rescued 39 people, including 26 children, whom Maoist Shining Path rebels were raising in bondage as future rebel troops, ...South Korea declares end to MERS outbreak
South Korea said Tuesday it is now virtually free of the deadly MERS virus that killed 36 people and sickened nearly 200 ...Syrian Kurds say hit as Turkish army battles Islamic State
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria accused the Turkish army of shelling their positions on Monday, highlighting the precarious path Ankara is treading ...Afghanistan wedding shooting kills 21
Armed men opened fire at a wedding ceremony in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 21 guests and wounding eight, provincial officials said ...Nine killed in day-long Indian gun battle near Pakistani border
Indian police overcame a group of gunmen dressed in military fatigues on Monday after a 12-hour battle that ended in a small-town ...