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Pakistan says peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban government in Istanbul failed after 4 days
BY SUZAN FRASER and MUNIR AHMED AP Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, Pakistan’s ...Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa, island’s strongest storm on record
By Darryl Coote UPI At least three people are dead in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa, the world’s strongest storm so far this ...Sudanese force’s capture of Darfur city could entrench country’s split
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir Reuters A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in a Darfur city ...Israel insists it calls shots in Gaza despite truce
By Dave Clark AFP Israel insisted on Sunday that it will maintain control of security inside Gaza despite signing up to a ...Kurdish PKK says withdrawing all forces from Turkey to north Iraq
By Shwan Mohammed with Hazel Ward in Istanbul AFP The Kurdish militant PKK began withdrawing all of its forces from Turkish soil ...Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps toward island
By Ricardo MAKYN AFP Hurricane Melissa was cutting a deadly path through the Caribbean on Sunday, strengthening into a Category 3 storm ...Cambodia, Thailand sign peace pact following deadly July clashes
By Jan HENNOP AFP US President Donald Trump co-signed a truce between Thailand and Cambodia during the first stop on his Asia ...Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
BY KATIE MARIE DAVIES AP For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, ...Africa’s ageing presidents govern world’s youngest populations
The presidents of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, 92 and 83 respectively, are each seeking to extend decades of rule, reflecting a trend ...Iraq faces elections at a delicate moment in the Middle East
ByQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD — BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of ...














