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India hangs Mumbai blasts convict 22 years after attack
India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country\'s deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, ...Several stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride parade
An ultra-Orthodox Jew allegedly stabbed six Gay Pride marchers in Jerusalem Thursday, gravely wounding one of them, just weeks after completing a ...30 killed in Nepal as monsoon rains spark landslides
Landslides caused by heavy rains buried several mountain villages in Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, and bad weather was ...Canada approves abortion pill, joining 60 other countries
Canada has approved the use of the abortion pill mifepristone after three years of tests, the ministry of health said Thursday.Nigerian soldiers rescue 59 children, women from Boko Haram
Nigeria\'s army said Thursday it had set free 59 people held by Boko Haram, among them 29 women and 25 children, amid ...Russia vetoes UN Security Council proposal on MH17 tribunal
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those ...Deadly car bomb hits Yemen capital as fighting rages in south
A car bomb claimed by the Islamic State group exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Yemen\'s capital Wednesday, killing four people, as ...France deploys riot police to bolster Calais security
France deployed more than 100 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night ...Afghanistan says Taliban leader dead, urges peace talks
Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, elusive leader of the Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency against the government in Kabul, ...Pakistan police kill leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group
Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout ...




