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Suspected Boko Haram attacks kill 40 in Nigeria
About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two ...More German women joining IS to fight, intelligence head says
Germany\'s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) fears a growing number of women have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside Islamic State ...US spied on French presidents, Wikileaks claims
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press ...Europe launches next phase of hi-tech Earth satellites
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the second phase of a 4.3-billion-euro ($4.91-billion) programme to deploy new-generation satellites to monitor environmental ...30 killed near Nigerian mosque by girl suicide bombers
Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria\'s biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said.Hollande vows fight to save Frenchman facing death in Indonesia
French President Francois Hollande said his country was doing "everything" it can to save a Frenchman accused of drug offences in Indonesia ...Japanese plane circles over China-claimed region in South China Sea
A Japanese military patrol plane circled over disputed parts of the South China Sea on Tuesday at the start of an exercise ...Greece accepts principle of extending current bailout
Greece has accepted the principle of extending its current bailout programme which expires at the end of the month so as to ...Solar Impulse Japan take off cancelled
Mission controllers trying to fly a solar plane around the world cancelled take off from Japan early Wednesday because of weather problems ...Hundreds die in Pakistan heat wave
Nearly 700 people have died in a severe three-day heatwave in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday, with medics battling to treat patients as ...




