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At least 12 dead in France magazine attack
Heavily armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans stormed a Paris satirical newspaper office Wednesday and shot dead at least 12 people ...Captured Uganda rebel Ongwen, one-time victim turned killer
Abducted by gunmen as a 10-year old boy on his way to school, Dominic Ongwen rose to become one of ...Car bomb kills 30 outside Yemen police college
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen\'s capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing about 30 people and wounding ...Dozens of Islamist fighters killed as battle of Kobani rages on
Forty-one Islamic State militants were killed in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Tuesday as U.S.-led air strikes helped ...2014 was hottest in Britain since 1910: Met Office
Last year was Britain\'s warmest since records began in 1910, the Met Office weather agency said Monday.Boko Haram seizes military base in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants have seized a military base outside the Nigerian town of Baga near Lake Chad after engaging ...Suicide bomber kills 4 people in Somalia, police say
A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia\'s U.S.-trained elite ...U.S. slaps more sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack
North Korea was hit with more sanctions on Friday designed to impede access to the U.S. financial system in the ...Israel withholds funds, weighs lawsuits against Palestinians
Israel will withhold critical tax revenue and seek ways to bring war crimes prosecutions against Palestinian leaders in retaliation for ...Libya Islamists abduct 20 Egypt Christians: govt source
Islamist militants have abducted 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya in recent days, a source close to the government said.