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Blackwater threatened to kill US official in Iraq: report
The top manager in Iraq of the notorious private security firm Blackwater threatened to kill a US State Department investigator for probing ...Iraq launches offensive to recapture Tikrit
The Iraqi government launched its biggest push yet to wrest back ground lost to Sunni militants, as soldiers backed by tanks and ...Two dead as bombs hit Cairo telecommunications centre
Two bombings on Saturday in a Cairo suburb killed a teenager and her mother, officials said, the latest in a wave of ...North Korea fires more short-range missiles
North Korea has fired two missiles off its eastern coast, according to the South Korean military. It comes just days after Pyongyang ...Benghazi suspect pleads not guilty in US
A Libyan militia leader pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court on Saturday to a terrorism charge in the 2012 attack ...Pro-Russian rebels free second OSCE team in Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine on Saturday released a second group of four monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation ...Bosnia marks 100 years since killing that sparked WWI
Sarajevo marks 100 years since the assassination that triggered World War I on Saturday, but without the leaders of Europe and with ...Blast in northern Nigeria kills 10
An explosion overnight in a brothel in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi killed 10 people, police said on Saturday, while 14 ...Ukrainian rebels free four OSCE hostages, four still in captivity
Rebels in southeast Ukraine early on Friday released four out of eight international observers, captured over a month ago, in an apparent ...Sudanese Christian woman freed again
A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned was freed again on Thursday after being detained on accusations of ...




