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Pope calls for peace in South Sudan, Syria
Pope Francis has called for peace in South Sudan and other troubled nations around the world in his first Christmas Day address.Turkish ministers resign over fraud probe
Turkey\'s environment minister has become the country\'s third cabinet minister to announce his resignation on Wednesday asa result of a high-level corruption ...UN seeks to increase peacekeeping force in S Sudan
The United States has increased its diplomatic efforts to calm the increasing ethnic violence in South Sudan, while also repositioning troops in ...Brazil floods force more than 40,000 to flee homes
Intense rain and flooding in southeast Brazil have killed at least six people and forced 40,000 more to leave their homes.Fighting spreads in South Sudan as fears grow of civil war
South Sudan\'s government said on Sunday rebels had seized the capital of a key oil-producing region and fears grew of all-out ethnic ...Protesters gather across Thai capital, demand PM resigns
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters brought central Bangkok to a halt Sunday demanding political reform, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra\'s resignation, and ...Car bomb explosion at Syrian school kills eight
In eastern Syria, students are reported among the dead from a car bomb explosion near a primary school in the province of ...Obama promises review of NSA spying program, possible reforms
US President Barack Obama has suggested there may be a review of surveillance by the National Security Agency in the wake of ...EU promises tough summit with Russia over Ukraine
European Union leaders are promising to confront Russia at an upcoming summit about what the giant trade bloc says is undue Russian ...US astronauts embark on spacewalk
Astronauts from the U.S. space agency will begin a series of spacewalks Saturday to repair a faulty pump on the International Space ...




