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South Sudan troops suffocated 60 in church compound: Amnesty
The deliberate suffocating of over 60 men and boys stuffed into a baking hot shipping container in South Sudan is a war ...Western security services probe Islamic State identity leak reports
A disillusioned former member of Islamic State has passed a stolen memory stick of documents identifying 22,000 supporters in over 50 countries ...South African woman convicted of kidnapping baby in 1997
A South African woman was convicted Thursday of kidnapping a newborn baby and raising her for 17 years before an astonishing coincidence ...Obama, Trudeau mark better Canada ties with climate, trade accords
U.S. President Barack Obama and new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday ended a frosty period in bilateral ties by agreeing ...Venezuela withdraws top diplomat in United States
President Nicolas Maduro recalled Venezuela\'s top diplomat from the United States in protest against the renewal of a year-old US decree calling ...Slovenia says ready to take migrants under EU quotas
Slovenia, which this week closed its borders to migrants, will begin in April accepting refugees shared out among the European Union under ...Clinton, Sanders engage in fiery debate clashes
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed forcefully on the debate stage Wednesday, with the Democratic presidential rivals opening lines of attack on ...Death toll from Lagos building collapse hits 34
Thirty-four people died in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction in an upmarket area of Nigeria\'s biggest city, Lagos, a ...Brazil expects Olympics without protests despite tensions
Brazil\'s Defense Minister Aldo Rebelo has downplayed risks of massive protests during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, despite the country\'s ...Peru bars second-place presidential candidate
The second-place candidate in Peru\'s presidential election was disqualified Wednesday over procedural irregularities, upending the campaign and giving controversial frontrunner Keiko Fujimori ...




