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Kevlar inventor Stephanie Kwolek dies at 90
Stephanie Kwolek, the American chemist who invented the super-strong fibre Kevlar used in bullet-proof vests, has died at age 90Ukraine President declares week-long ceasefire
Ukraine\'s President Petro Poroshenko announced a week-long unilateral ceasefire would begin Friday in the separatist east to give the pro-Russian rebels a ...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls for arms embargo on Syria
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria, in a ...Global refugee figures highest since Second World War, UN says
The number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people has surged to more than 50 million people, the first time since ...Seven Ukranian troops killed as rebels operate tanks
Seven Ukrainian troops were killed in overnight fighting in the restive east, Ukrainian officials said Friday, as clashes between government forces and ...Syria car blast kills dozens
A car bomb in Syria\'s western Hama province killed 34 and wounded more than 50, Syria\'s state news agency SANA said on ...Obama plans to send military advisers to Iraq
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he\'s prepared to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to “assess how we can ...A Brief History of Iraq for Westerners
Iraq was saved from ignorant subhuman barbarism by a gentlewoman namedUS executions carried out after botched injection
US states overnight carried out the first two executions since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April, after last minute appeals ...Egypt frees Al Jazeera hunger strike journalist Abdullah Elshamy
Egypt has released Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy, who has been on hunger strike for nearly five months in protest over his detention.




