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Second blast kills 14 people in Russia
Russian authorities have increased security in and around the southern city of Volgograd after two suicide bomb attacks killed 31 ...Afghan war most unpopular in US history: Poll
A new poll shows that the war in Afghanistan is even more unpopular among Americans than the war in Vietnam ...At least 23 reported killed in huge India train fire
Railways officials in southern India say a fire on a train has killed at least 23 people.Pope calls for peace in South Sudan, Syria
Pope Francis has called for peace in South Sudan and other troubled nations around the world in his first Christmas ...Turkish ministers resign over fraud probe
Turkey\'s environment minister has become the country\'s third cabinet minister to announce his resignation on Wednesday asa result of a ...UN seeks to increase peacekeeping force in S Sudan
The United States has increased its diplomatic efforts to calm the increasing ethnic violence in South Sudan, while also repositioning ...Brazil floods force more than 40,000 to flee homes
Intense rain and flooding in southeast Brazil have killed at least six people and forced 40,000 more to leave their ...Fighting spreads in South Sudan as fears grow of civil war
South Sudan\'s government said on Sunday rebels had seized the capital of a key oil-producing region and fears grew of ...Protesters gather across Thai capital, demand PM resigns
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters brought central Bangkok to a halt Sunday demanding political reform, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra\'s ...Car bomb explosion at Syrian school kills eight
In eastern Syria, students are reported among the dead from a car bomb explosion near a primary school in the ...