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Dozens die in Turkey blast near Syria border
An explosion outside a cultural center in the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria killed at least 31 people ...Greek banks reopen amid calls for more talks
Greeks queued outside banks on Monday as they reopened three weeks after closing to stop the system collapsing under a flood of ...U.S., Cuba restore ties, open embassies after 54 years
The United States and Cuba quietly ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations on Monday, formally restoring diplomatic ties severed ...Cuban flag raised in US after 54 years
The Cuban flag was raised over Havana’s embassy in Washington on Monday for the first time in 54 years as the United ...Greece repays about 4.2 billion euros to European Central Bank
Greece repaid the European Central Bank on Monday, the bank said, clearing a key obligation worth about 4.2 billion euros with one ...French teen in HIV remission 12 years after stopping treatments
A French teenager born with HIV has been in remission for 12 years after stopping her medication, a world-first that renews hope ...AU troops in new offensive against Shebab
African Union troops said Sunday they had launched a new offensive against Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels in southern Somalia, vowing to flush the ...Merkel defends treatment of weeping Palestinian girl
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended her treatment of a crying teenage Palestinian refugee following a storm of protest on social ...FARC free abducted Colombian soldier
FARC guerrillas on Sunday freed a Colombian soldier after holding him for nearly two weeks, the president said, on the eve of ...Blasts destroy Hamas, Islamic Jihad cars in Gaza
Explosions on Sunday destroyed five cars in Gaza belonging to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, witnesses and a security source said, ...




