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Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing ...US Patriot Act spy provisions expire as Senate deal fails
Key provisions of the US Patriot Act expired early Monday after the Senate failed to prevent their lapse, plunging US national security ...Bad weather casts doubt on solar Pacific flight
Solar Impulse 2 was in a holding pattern near Japan on Monday as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead ...Greece, creditors agree on need for quick deal as talks continue
Greece and its European creditors agreed on the need to reach a cash-for-reforms deal quickly as Athens missed a self-imposed Sunday deadline ...Clashes in Somalia leave 35 dead
At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of clashes in villages near Somalia\'s border with ...Five killed in eastern Ukraine fighting
Three Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed over the past 24 hours in fighting in the separatist east, a Ukrainian ...Nepal schools reopen after devastating earthquakes
Thousands of children, many still traumatised from losing homes and loved ones, returned to class Sunday as Nepal\'s schools formally reopened following ...Stopping the violence in Burundi
The conflict started April 26 after Burundi’s Constitutional Court ruled in support of President\'s Nkurunziza’s decision to ...Deadly violence hits Nigeria as new President Buhari takes office
A suicide bombing killed 26 people inside a mosque in northeast Nigeria\'s city of Maiduguri on Saturday, hours after Boko Haram launched ...Solar plane heads across Pacific on historic journey
The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early Sunday for a six-day, six-night flight over the Pacific Ocean, the most ambitious ...