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Death toll from Turkish coal mine disaster rises to 238
At least 238 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in ...Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...French journalist killed in the Central African Republic
The French president\'s office said Tuesday the body of Camille Lepage was found by French peacekeepers in a vehicle they stopped that ...Ukraine hosts national unity talks to end crisis
Ukraine launches Western-sponsored roundtable "national unity" talks on Wednesday but without pro-Moscow rebels who are waging an armed insurgency in the east ...Protests erupt in Turkey as death toll at coal mine reaches 245
A violent protest erupted Wednesday in the Turkish city of Soma, where at least 238 coal miners have died after a mine ...UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned Tuesday after trying for nearly two years to overcome “almost impossible odds” to end ...Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist ambush
An ambush by pro-Russian separatists has killed seven Ukrainian soldiers, the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash ...Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 28 people
A wave of car bombings in Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that ...US surveillance aircraft deployed to search for Nigerian girls taken by Boko Haram
The United States said it is flying "manned" missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government ...Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to six years in prison for bribery conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes in the Holyland ...