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Divided Turkey holds critical vote as violence spirals
Turks were voting Sunday in one of the most crucial elections in years, as the deeply divided country confronts a bloody wave ...Azerbaijan votes in polls boycotted by the opposition
Polls opened Sunday in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan in a parliamentary election widely expected to cement strongman President Ilham Aliyev\'s grip on power and ...Islamic State takes over Syrian town in Homs province
Islamic State fighters took control of the Syrian town of Maheen in the southwest of Homs province on Sunday after an attack ...IS beheads four Iraq Kurd fighters after joint US raid
The Islamic State group beheaded four Iraqi Kurdish fighters following a joint raid with American special forces against the jihadists, according to ...Russian plane crashes in Egypt, 224 feared dead
A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt\'s Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact ...Six children among 15 killed as Philippines market fire
A pre-dawn fire in the southern Philippines raced through public market stalls, killing 15 vendors, including six children, who were sleeping there ...Romania in mourning after Bucharest club blaze kills 27
Romania was plunged into mourning on Saturday after 27 people were killed and nearly 200 injured when a fire ripped through an ...Syria opposition, rebel dismiss Iran idea for transition
Any peace plan for Syria allowing President Bashar al-Assad to stand in early elections after a transition period would be "mad" because ...British population to top 70 million by 2027
The population of the United Kingdom is to top 70 million in the next 12 years, according to projections from the Office ...U.S. sticks to demand Assad leave power at first peace talks to include Iran
Washington stuck to its demand on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power, ahead of peace talks which will include Assad\'s ...




