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Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon at May Day protesters
Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of stone-throwing May Day protesters on Friday, after they defied a ban ...Nepal quake toll passes 6,200; needs $2 bln to rebuild
The death toll from Nepal\'s devastating earthquake rose steadily past 6,200 on Friday as fresh aftershocks and the stench of rotting bodies ...Two rescued from rubble five days after Nepal earthquake
Hundreds cheered as rescuers toiling amid rubble left by Nepal\'s earthquake pulled a boy and a woman to safety on Thursday after ...Greek PM leaves referendum option open, rules out elections
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday he was confident of an early deal with international creditors, after shaking up his ...Leftist Akinci wins north Cyprus election, seeking peace deal
A leftist moderate promising to press for a peace deal in ethnically-split Cyprus swept to victory in a Turkish Cypriot presidential election ...German Chancellor, Greek PM agree to stay in touch to reach debt deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in a phone conversation on Sunday to maintain contact during talks ...Kazakhstan goes to polls as president expected to win
Voters in Kazakhstan turned out in abundance at polling stations Sunday for a presidential election guaranteed to overwhelmingly reconfirm the incumbent, who ...Australians get 72-hour notice of execution in Indonesia
Indonesia said Saturday it has officially notified eight foreign drug convicts that they will be executed, but a Frenchman was granted a ...Powerful former Syrian general dies in Damascus hospital
Rostom Ghazali, the Syrian general once considered the most powerful man in Lebanon and a key suspect in the assassination of former ...Armenia marks 100-year anniversary of Ottoman massacre
The leaders of France and Russia on Friday joined ceremonies marking the centenary of the massacre of some 1.5 million Armenians by ...