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Chad warplanes bomb Boko Haram after attacks
Chad said Thursday its warplanes bombed Boko Haram positions in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in the capital this week ...Muslims banned from celebrating Ramadan in China
China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to ...Nepal quake leaves remote villages cut off as rains begin
For the villagers of Sirdibas in Nepal, one of hundreds of isolated mountain communities dotting the vast Himalayan region, a trip to ...Denmark votes in close election
Polls opened in Denmark on Thursday in an election that was too close to call, after a three-week campaign focusing on immigration ...Three Dutch tourists killed in Portugal bus crash
Portuguese officials say a bus carrying Dutch tourists has crashed in southern Portugal, killing three of the tourists and injuring 30 others ...Seventy powers demand Syria barrel bombings end
Seventy countries across the planet united Thursday to express outrage over the Syrian regime\'s systematic use of barrel bombs and to demand ...Europe spends 11.3 bn euros deporting migrants since 2000
European countries have spent 11.3 billion euros in the last 15 years on deporting illegal migrants and another 1.6 billion euros on ...EU calls Greek crisis summit as talks end without deal
The EU called an emergency eurozone summit next week after Greek debt talks ended Thursday without a deal, sparking warnings of an ...Syria refugees return to border town after IS defeat
Syrian refugees in Turkey began returning to their homes in Tal Abyad Wednesday after Kurdish forces seized the border town in a ...U.S. weighs near-term Assad military retrenchment in Syria
The United States and its allies are weighing the possibility that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, under growing military pressure, may soon narrow ...