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Powerful former Syrian general dies in Damascus hospital
Rostom Ghazali, the Syrian general once considered the most powerful man in Lebanon and a key suspect in the assassination of former ...Thousands turn out in Australia for Gallipoli centenary
Thousands turned out across Australia on Saturday morning for dawn services commemorating the 100th anniversary of the doomed WW1 campaign at Gallipoli, ...Armenia marks 100-year anniversary of Ottoman massacre
The leaders of France and Russia on Friday joined ceremonies marking the centenary of the massacre of some 1.5 million Armenians by ...Italian judge keeps migrant disaster ship skipper behind bars
The Tunisian captain of a migrant boat in which at least 700 people drowned is to remain behind bars as an Italian ...Palestinian student vote offers taste of real democracy
As relations between rival political factions hit rock bottom and with the prospect of a general election ever more distant, some Palestinians ...Indonesia orders preparations for executions of drug convicts
The Indonesian government said Thursday it had ordered officials to make preparations to execute a group of drug convicts, most of them ...14 migrants killed by train in Macedonia
Fourteen migrants were hit by a train and killed in central Macedonia late on Thursday as they walked through a canyon along ...Chechnya leader gives `shoot to kill` orders on Russian forces
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Thursday ordered his troops to "shoot to kill" if they encountered any unauthorised Russian forces on the ...Armenians mark 100 years since Ottoman massacre
Armenians worldwide will mark the centenary of an Ottoman massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people on Friday, as tensions ...Russia boosts energy ties with Argentina
Russia and Argentina on Thursday signed a slew of deals furthering energy ties as Moscow reaches out to allies amid its standoff ...