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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, ...Israel, Hamas defy truce calls on Gaza bloodiest day
The world implored Israel and Hamas to end hostilities Saturday, but the violence escalated with the toll in Israeli strikes rising to ...Strong quake hits Japan, triggering small tsunami
A strong earthquake hit Japan\'s northern coast Saturday near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 tsunami. At least one person ...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 ...U.S. Out of Germany
Despite the supposed ending of World War II, the U.S.Gaza toll nears 100, militants threaten Israeli airport
A fourth day of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 11 more Palestinians on Friday, raising the death toll in ...Kurdish forces take over two oilfields in north Iraq
Kurdish peshmerga forces took control of production facilities at two northern Iraqi oilfields on Friday, replacing Arab workers with Kurdish personnel.