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Singapore bids farewell to founding father Lee Kuan Yew in elaborate funeral
Grieving Singaporeans were joined by world leaders on Sunday to pay their final respects to the country\'s first prime minister, Lee Kuan ...Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen continue
Yemeni fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi clashed with Iranian-allied Houthi fighters on Sunday in downtown Aden, the absent ...French local election runoff tests far-right strength
Voting started in France on Sunday to elect thousands of local councillors in a test of the far-right National Front\'s growing hold ...Syria regime executed prisoners before Idlib fall
- Syrian government forces apparently executed at least 15 prisoners in the city of ...
Nigerians vote for president amid fears of Boko Haram, political violence
Nigerians went to the polls on Saturday in what looks set to be the first genuine electoral contest since the end of ...Al-Qaida in Syria seizes large parts of northern city
Syrian opposition activists say al-Qaida\'s affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, has seized large parts of the northwestern city of Idlib from ...Co-pilot hid sick note for day of Alps plane crash
German authorities found torn-up sick notes showing that the pilot who crashed a plane into the French Alps was suffering from an ...Power restored in Dutch capital Amsterdam after cut causes airline chaos
A massive power cut caused chaos in and around the Dutch capital Amsterdam on Friday, including halting all flights at Schiphol International ...Somalia Shebab militants launch major assault on Mogadishu hotel
Somalia\'s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants carried out a car bomb attack followed by a major armed raid on a Mogadishu hotel Friday, causing ...Sierra Leone in new anti-Ebola lockdown
Sierra Leone imposed a three-day nationwide lockdown Friday for the second time in six months in a bid to prevent a resurgence ...