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The interim Ukrainian president reinstated military conscription Thursday in the face of an increasingly empowered pro-Russian separatist insurgency in the country\'s eastern ...At least 33 killed in Aleppo airstrikes, Syrian opposition group says
At least 33 civilians have been killed and scores of others have been injured in a government airstrike on a market in ...Taliban suicide car bomb kills 13 in Afghanistan
At least 13 people, among them the two perpetrators, were killed and scores of others were injured Thursday in a Taliban suicide ...Abducted Nigerian girls sold into marriage to Islamist extremists
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks again are being sold to as wives to Islamic militants for as little as $12 each, it ...Airstrike on Syrian school kills 18, say activists
An air raid on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria\'s main northern city Aleppo hit a school, killing at least 18 people, 10 ...China says three killed in attack at Xinjiang train station
At least three people were killed and 79 injured when an explosion rocked a train station in Urumqi, the capital of China\'s ...British actor Bob Hoskins dies aged 71
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died ...Aerial search to locate missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane ends
The intensive aerial search for surface wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has officially ended, with ships also moving out of the ...Thailand to hold fresh general election in July
Thailand\'s government and election authorities agreed Wednesday to hold a new general election on July 20 in an attempt to end the ...