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Syria peace talks muddied as Kurds declare federal region
Talks to end Syria\'s brutal five-year conflict were rattled Thursday by uncertainty surrounding the arrival of a second opposition group and the ...Morocco asks U.N. to pull 84 staff out of Western Sahara mission
Morocco has asked the U.N. to withdraw 84 international staff from its Western Sahara mission after U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon made "unacceptable" ...Kurd militant group claims Ankara bombing
A radical Kurdish group with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\' Party (PKK) on Thursday claimed the deadly suicide car bomb attack ...Bus bomb blast kills 16 in northwestern Pakistan
At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, ...Trump, Clinton move closer to White House nominations
Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party\'s White House nomination Tuesday, while Donald Trump\'s seemingly unstoppable rush to ...Driver killed in car explosion in Germany
A car bomb killed a driver travelling down a street in central Berlin on Tuesday, police said, as investigators suspected that it ...45 Kurdish rebels killed in air strikes after Ankara bomb attack
At least 45 Kurdish rebels were killed in Turkish air strikes against suspected militant targets in northern Iraq following the suicide car ...Myanmar elects first civilian president in 50 years
Myanmar\'s parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw ...Police shot in anti-terrorism raid in Belgium capital
Police shot dead one suspect on Tuesday during a major Belgian-French anti-terror operation in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks, after gunmen ...Russia says first Russian warplanes left Syria
Russian warplanes and troops stationed at Russia\'s air base in Syria started leaving for home on Tuesday after a partial pullout order ...




