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French foreign minister arrives in Tehran for talks
France\'s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius arrived in Tehran for a one-day visit on Wednesday and was due to meet President Hassan Rouhani ...Russia vetoes UN Security Council proposal on MH17 tribunal
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those ...Deadly car bomb hits Yemen capital as fighting rages in south
A car bomb claimed by the Islamic State group exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Yemen\'s capital Wednesday, killing four people, as ...France deploys riot police to bolster Calais security
France deployed more than 100 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night ...Afghanistan says Taliban leader dead, urges peace talks
Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, elusive leader of the Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency against the government in Kabul, ...Pakistan police kill leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group
Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout ...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.