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Houthi allies accept five-day truce in Yemen proposed by Saudi Arabia
Yemen\'s dominant Houthi group accepted a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by its adversary Saudi Arabia on Sunday but said it would respond ...Fresh avalanches force workers to call off search in Nepal
Fresh avalanches forced rescuers in a village buried by a landslide in northern Nepal to stop searching for bodies in the aftermath ...Turkish PM crosses into Syria to visit historic Ottoman tomb
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu briefly crossed into Syria on Sunday to visit the tomb of a revered Ottoman figure and vowed ...Central African Republic militias agree to disarmament deal
Rival armed groups in Central African Republic on Sunday agreed to a peace accord requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice ...Thousands stranded as strong typhoon nears Philippines
Thousands of passengers were stranded in seaports and some domestic flights were canceled as Typhoon Noul strengthened further before its expected landfall ...Several people killed in shooting in Switzerland
Police said Sunday that they found several people dead after shots were heard in a town in northern Switzerland.Five Macedonian police officers killed in armed clashes in north
Five police officers died and more than 30 were wounded in an operation against gunmen in an ethnic Albanian area of northern ...30 prisoners killed, 40 escape in Iraq jail break claimed by IS
Dozens of people were killed and 40 inmates escaped in a bloody prison break north of the Iraqi capital for which the ...Egypt sentences former president Mubarak and sons to three years in jail
An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in ...Russia stages huge military parade, Western leaders boycott
Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on Saturday in a huge ...