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Iraq, Turkey vow to work together against IS group
Iraq\'s prime minister said on Thursday that his country and neighboring Turkey have agreed on closer security and intelligence cooperation in the ...Egypt considers pardons for Al Jazeera staff
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested on Thursday he was considering pardoning journalists of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television station jailed in ...Angry Mexicans protest over 43 missing students
Tens of thousands marched in the capital Thursday demanding that authorities find 43 missing college students, seeking to pressure the government on ...Japan PM seeks referendum on “Abenomics” in snap election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament\'s lower house on Friday for a snap election expected on Dec. 14, seeking a fresh mandate ...Burkina Faso names army colonel Zida as prime minister
Burkina Faso\'s transitional government named Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida as prime minister on Wednesday, four days after he restored the ...Ukraine rules out direct talks with separatists
Russia urged Ukraine\'s leaders on Wednesday to talk directly to separatists to end the conflict in the east, but Kiev rejected the ...Suicide car bomb kills five in Iraqi Kurdish capital
A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives blew himself up in the capital of Iraq\'s Kurdistan region on Wednesday, killing ...Israel approves 78 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
Israel on Wednesday approved the construction of 78 new homes in two settlements on West Bank land annexed to Jerusalem, likely to ...G20 commits to higher growth, fight climate change; Russia isolated over Ukraine
Leaders from the G20 group of nations agreed on Sunday to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack ...Islamic State group beheads US aid worker
An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a ...