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World leaders laud Myanmar election as Suu Kyi secures majority
The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar\'s parliament, the election commission said on Friday, ...Israel detains 24 Hamas suspects in West Bank raids
Israel security forces arrested 24 suspected members of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in overnight raids in the northern West Bank, the army ...Kosovo fails in UNESCO membership bid
Kosovo on Monday failed in its bid to win membership of the UN cultural body UNESCO, which would have represented a leap ...Russia faces Olympic ban after hugely critical doping report
Russian track and field athletes could be banned from next year\'s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a devastatingly critical report accused ...Over 230,000 vaccinated in Iraq anti-cholera campaign
More than 230,000 people received a first dose of cholera vaccine in a massive campaign to combat an outbreak of the disease ...Aung San Suu Kyi wins historic Myanmar election
Myanmar\'s ruling party conceded defeat in the country\'s general election on Monday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu ...Venezuela says US intelligence plane violated airspace
Venezuela claims a U.S. Coast Guard plane it describes as an intelligence aircraft violated the South American country\'s airspace.Burundi police launch crackdown as nine are killed in capital
Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi\'s capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons on Sunday, amid international fears of fresh ...Croatian opposition conservatives win general election
Croatia\'s conservative opposition looked set to return to power after narrowly winning a general election, preliminary results showed Monday, but tough government ...Myanmar holds first free election in 25 years
Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian ...