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US soldiers kill senior Islamic State commander in Syria raid, capture wife
American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation ...Egypt court sentences ex-president Mohamed Mursi to death
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohammed Mursi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took ...Mitt Romney fights Evander Holyfield in charity boxing match
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and five-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield squared off in the ring Friday at a charity ...Nepal earthquake: all eight bodies recovered from crashed US helicopter
The bodies of eight soldiers have been recovered from the wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission ...Boko Haram recaptures key town in northeast Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria\'s restive Borno state, a regional official said early on ...U.S., China clash over disputed South China Sea
The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as China\'s foreign minister asserted ...Nigeria shuts down restaurant serving human meat
Hotel restaurant in Anambra, Nigeria has been shuttered by authorities for serving human flesh. According to the BBC, suspicious residents told police ...Militiamen rape 127 women in east Congo town
Armed men raped 127 women earlier this month during a raid on a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo\'s South Kivu ...Nearly 800 migrants reach land in Indonesia, others sent back to sea
Nearly 800 "boat people" were brought ashore in Indonesia on Friday but other vessels crammed with migrants were sent back to sea ...Bin Laden top aide gets life sentence in embassy bombings
A former top aide to Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to life in prison for conspiring in the 1998 bombings of ...