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Volcano erupts on southern Japanese island
A volcano erupted in spectacular fashion on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, spewing out rocks and sending black clouds ...Blatter defies calls to quit as FIFA scandal widens
The corruption charges engulfing soccer\'s governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday, ...Putin declares all Russian military deaths state secrets
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state ...Pakistan hangs three separatists for 1998 plane hijacking
Pakistan on Thursday executed three Baluch separatists convicted of hijacking a plane in 1998, which they attempted to fly to India to ...Blatter chairs emergency FIFA meeting as scandal grows
FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies Thursday while staying out of public view himself.India heat wave death toll passes 1,400
A heat wave in India has killed at least 1,371 people this week as temperatures soar above 47 Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit), and ...Pressure mounts on FIFA’s Blatter to resign after arrests
FIFA\'s veteran president Sepp Blatter faced angry demands to resign after US indictments and arrests of top lieutenants engulfed the football supremo ...German city evacuates 20,000 people to defuse WWII bomb
German authorities evacuated around 20,000 people from their homes in the western city of Cologne Wednesday before defusing a World War II ...Saudi-led airstrikes on police headquarters kill 45 in Yemen
Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 45 soldiers on Wednesday when they targeted a rebel troop headquarters in the Yemeni capital as the United ...FIFA officials arrested over corruption charges, face US extradition
Six soccer officials, including some high-ranking members of world governing-body FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition ...