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Around 180 Syrian soldiers, jihadists reported killed in battle for base
Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 Islamist fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents captured the Wadi ...Taliban storms Pakistan school, killing scores of children
At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in ...Japanese PM Shinzo Abe wins election
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\'s coalition has cruised to a big election win, ensuring he will stick to reflationary economic ...US House passes $1.1tn budget bill to avert shutdown
The House of Representatives averted a government shutdown on Thursday, narrowly passing a $1.1 trillion spending bill despite strenuous Democratic objections to ...Hong Kong police clear out main protest camp
Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final ...CIA mistreated detainees, misrepresented intelligence, mismanaged program, Senate probe finds
CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged, did not produce useful intelligence and was so poorly managed it ...Iraq presses Hagel for more U.S. air strikes, weapons
Iraq\'s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pressed outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday for more air strikes and weaponry to accelerate ...Kerry urges flexibility in U.S. war powers against Islamic State
Any congressional authorization of U.S. military force against Islamic State should be flexible and not limit the fight to Iraq and Syria, ...Syria calls for U.N. sanctions on Israel over air strikes
Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel, a day after accusing the Jewish state ...Hong Kong protesters given Thursday deadline to clear sites
Hong Kong\'s High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to ...