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New Year celebrations marked across the world
New Year\'s celebrations kicked off in New Zealand and Australia as revelers from around the world gathered Wednesday to say goodbye to ...Bodies from crashed AirAsia plane arrive in Indonesian city
The first two bodies from the AirAsia plane that crashed off the coast of Borneo arrived on Wednesday in the Indonesian city ...At least 23 killed in Yemen suicide bombing: state news agency
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in central Yemen on Wednesday when he blew himself up at a cultural center ...Kurds in new Islamic State group offensive in Iraq
Backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, Kurdish Iraqi forces said they launched a large-scale offensive Wednesday to push Islamic State group extremists from an ...U.S. adds four more Russians to human rights sanctions list
The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on four more Russians for alleged human rights abuses, including two officials said ...Ferry stricken by blaze fully evacuated, 10 dead
Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece\'s Adriatic coast in a ...IS releases interview with captive Jordanian pilot
The Islamic State group published on Monday an interview with the Jordanian pilot captured last week after his plane crashed ...Bodies, debris from missing AirAsia plane pulled from sea off Indonesia
Indonesian rescuers searching for a missing AirAsia plane carrying 162 people pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of ...Malaysia flood response denounced anew as nearly quarter million flee
Malaysia\'s worst flooding in a decade has forced nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes, officials said on Tuesday, ...Gunfire reported in Gambian capital as president away
Residents in the tiny West African nation of Gambia are reporting heavy gunfire near the presidential palace.




