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Coalition says fewer than 3,000 IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria
The United States-led international coalition fighting Islamic State estimates that fewer than 3,000 fighters belonging to the hardline Sunni militant group remain ...Iceland closes gender gap but violence against women remains
For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world\'s smallest gender-equality gap, and for ...Deadly explosion at major European gas hub in Austria
A large explosion rocked one of Europe\'s main gas pipeline hubs on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and stoking concerns about the ...Ariane 5 rocket takes off with European GPS satellites
An Ariane 5 rocket took off from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana on Tuesday, taking with it four satellites for ...Yemen Huthis rally after killing strongman
Thousands of Huthi supporters rallied in Sanaa on Tuesday as the rebels cemented their grip on the Yemeni capital after killing their ...Rebel area near Damascus hit by heavy shelling despite two-day truce
Dozens of mortar bombs landed on the last major rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, a war monitor and ...Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak dies after drinking poison in UN court
A convicted war criminal from Croatia swallowed what he said was poison and died Wednesday after a United Nations court in the ...North Korea fires ballistic missile
North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Wednesday, South Korean military officials said, the first such launch in two months and just ...2,500 job losses as UK cigarette supplier collapses
Britain\'s biggest cigarette wholesaler, Palmer & Harvey (P&H), collapsed into administration on Tuesday, with around 2,500 staff facing redundancy, its administrator PwC ...Norway reveals rape and sexual assault scandal in Lapland
Norwegian police said Tuesday they had uncovered 151 alleged sexual assau lts, including child rape, in a small community in Lapland, sending ...




