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North Korea leader Kim sets five-year economic plan, vows nuclear restraint
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with ...Gunmen kill eight police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack
Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by ...Egyptian court recommends death penalty for journalists, Mursi verdict postponed
An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking ...Convoy leads Canada fire evacuees through burning city to safety
Convoys of evacuees stranded by a wildfire raging in and around the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray made their way on ...London elects Khan as first Muslim mayor
London became the first major Western capital to elect a Muslim mayor on Friday as Labour claimed victory for its candidate Sadiq ...North Korea stages once-in-a-generation party congress
North Korea on Friday staged its most important political show for a generation, aimed at cementing the absolute rule of leader Kim ...Israel hits Gaza after mortar fire across border
Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas facility in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after cross-border mortar fire, the Israeli army said, as ...Activists say dozens killed in Syrian airstrike on refugee camp
Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group ...Turkey PM announces resignation as Erdogan tightens grip
Turkey\'s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was reportedly to quit his jobs of ruling party chief and head of government, in a dramatic ...400,000 refugees could head for Turkey if no Aleppo truce: UN envoy
The UN\'s envoy for Syria on Wednesday made a plea for a halt in fighting in the second city of Aleppo, warning ...




