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Israel holds off on escalating Gaza barrage; West wants truce
Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls ...Germany wins World Cup, beating Argentina 1-0
Germany won the World Cup. Host Brazil won a world of new friends.Russia threatens Ukraine after shell crosses border
Russia threatened Ukraine on Sunday with "irreversible consequences" after a man was killed by a shell fired across the border from Ukraine, ...Thousands of Gaza civilians flee after Israeli warning
Thousands fled their homes in a Gaza Strip town on Sunday after Israel warned them to leave before it attacked rocket-launching sites, ...Ukraine says rebels will pay as missiles kill 23 soldiers
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed to "find and destroy" pro-Russian rebels who killed 23 servicemen and wounded nearly 100 in a missile ...Thirty Ukrainian troops possibly killed in rebel missile attack
A Ukrainian Interior Ministry official said at least 30 servicemen were killed Friday after pro-Russia rebels fired on them with missiles.Ukraine readies plan against rebels
Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia\'s Vladimir ...Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal
Reuters) – Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger ...Kerry in Afghanistan to help resolve election
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for talks in an effort to broker a resolution to a ...Indonesia votes for new president
Indonesians voted Wednesday in the tightest and most divisive presidential election since the downfall of dictator Soeharto, pitting Jakarta governor Joko "Jokowi" ...