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Canada approves abortion pill, joining 60 other countries
Canada has approved the use of the abortion pill mifepristone after three years of tests, the ministry of health said Thursday.Nigerian soldiers rescue 59 children, women from Boko Haram
Nigeria\'s army said Thursday it had set free 59 people held by Boko Haram, among them 29 women and 25 children, amid ...Afghan Taliban appoints new leader
The Taliban have chosen supreme leader Mullah Omar\'s deputy to replace him, two militant commanders said on Thursday, as Pakistan announced that ...India hangs Mumbai blasts convict 22 years after attack
India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country\'s deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, ...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 ...