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Japanese military expansion set to anger China
Japan has begun construction work on a military radar station near a string of islands that is at the centre of a ...80% of Syrian chemical weapons shipped out: monitors
The head of the international team overseeing the destruction of Syria\'s chemical arms says the country has shipped out or destroyed nearly ...Iran says reactor redesign ends dispute over plutonium production
Iran said it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached ...No obstacles to normalizing Russian-West relations – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin says nothing should impede the normalization of relations between Russia and the West, after ties have hit a ...4 French journalists held hostage in Syria freed
Four French journalists held captive in Syria for almost a year were free and "in good health" on Saturday, President Francois Hollande ...Air strike kills 13 suspected militants in central Yemen
Thirteen people, including three civilians, were killed on Saturday in a U.S. drone attack on suspected al-Qaeda rebels in the central Yemeni ...South Korean ferry rescue efforts failing to find survivors
South Korean divers resumed searching Thursday for 268 people - many of them teenagers - missing nearly 24 hours after an ocean-going ...Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez dies at 87
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died Thursday in Mexico City ...Scientists discover most earth-like planet
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that\'s similar in size ...At least twelve dead in Mount Everest avalanche
Twelve Nepalese guides are dead and three people are missing in an avalanche on Mount Everest, a Nepal tourism official says.