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Spanish artist wins major US Music Competition
The International Songwriting Competition (ISC), widely recognized as the world\'s most prestigious and respected songwriting competition, has today announced its 2013 winners. ...Pro-Russian rebels will hold Ukraine referendum, defy Putin
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said Thursday they would go ahead with a referendum on secession set for Sunday, defying Russian President ...Venezuela arrests hundreds, sparking opposition protest
Hundreds of Venezuelan police and troops broke up four makeshift camps maintained by student protesters, arresting 243 people Thursday in pre-dawn raids.Rebels level historic Aleppo hotel in Syria
Opposition forces in Syria said they killed at least 50 government troops when they blew up a hotel in the city of ...Bomb kills 9 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers near Afghan border
A roadside bomb killed nine Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on Thursday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, authorities said.General Recommends Proven Approach for Relief from Stress of War and Violence
In the past 20 years, 18 African nations have been ravaged by ...Human emotions: Genetically programmed or socially learned?
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of ...Nigeria government announces reward for information on missing schoolgirls
Nigerian authorities offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue of ...China urges Philippines to release detained fishermen
The authorities in the Philippines have detained the crew of a Chinese fishing vessel in a disputed area of the South China ...South Africans vote in general election
Voting has begun in South Africa\'s fifth general election since apartheid ended two decades ago, and the first in which the generation ...