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Ukraine cedes airport on one of bloodiest days of war
Ukrainian forces on Thursday ceded a long-disputed airport to Russian-backed rebels as an upsurge in clashes killed nearly 50 people ...Yemen president quits, throwing country deeper into chaos
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi resigned on Thursday, days after Houthi rebels battled their way into his presidential palace, plunging ...Disenchanted militants in South Asia eye Islamic State with envy
Splits within the Taliban, and doubts over whether its elusive leader is even alive, are driving a growing number of ...Libyan rival parliament suspends U.N.-sponsored peace talks
A parliament set up in Libya to rival the elected assembly has suspended U.N.-sponsored peace talks because of what it ...Ukraine leader says 9000 Russian troops backing rebels
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of ...German anti-Islam leader resigns after Hitler, refugee posts
The leader of the fast-growing German anti-Muslim movement PEGIDA resigned on Wednesday after a photo of him posing as Hitler, ...Houthis take over Yemen presidential palace
Fighters from the Houthi group battled guards at the Yemeni president\'s private home and entered the presidential palace on Tuesday, ...Cuba wants off U.S. terrorism list before restoring normal ties
Cuba will tell the United States in face-to-face talks this week it wants to be removed from the U.S. list ...Islamic State threatens to kill two Japanese hostages
The militant Islamic State group released an online video on Tuesday purporting to show two Japanese captives and threatening to ...IMF cuts global growth outlook, calls for accommodative policy
The International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for global economic growth in 2015, and called on Tuesday for governments and central banks ...