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Brazil presidential candidate Campos killed in plane crash
Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, throwing the October election and local financial markets into ...Israelis, Palestinians begin new talks to end Gaza war
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt on Monday to end a month-old Gaza war, Egypt\'s state news agency ...US actor Robin Williams dead at 63 in apparent suicide
Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and ...Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go
Iraq\'s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki\'s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go ...Israel, Palestinians launch new three-day truce
Israel and the Palestinians held their fire early on Monday at the start of a new 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt that ...Ukrainian forces encircle rebel-held city, talk of truce collapses
Artillery shells slammed into the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday as government forces tightened the noose around the ...ISIS militants kill hundreds of Yazidis in Iraq, bury some alive
Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq\'s Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, burying some of their victims alive ...Passenger plane crashes in Iran, at least 38 dead
An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday moments after takeoff from Tehran, killing at least 38 on board and narrowly avoiding many more ...Turkey votes in landmark presidential election
Turks voted Sunday in their first direct presidential election, a watershed event in the country\'s 91-year history that could cement Prime Minister ...US launches four airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq
The U.S. military says American jet fighters and drones have conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, taking out armored ...