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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 ...Greek debt talks halted as Tsipras blasts creditors
Eurozone finance ministers on Wednesday halted crunch talks on a desperately needed Greece bailout deal until the next day, as Greek Prime ...Boston Marathon bomber apologizes, formally sentenced to death
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday apologized for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing before a U.S. judge formally sentenced ...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 ...FARC rebels kill four and rupture Colombian pipeline
Colombia\'s FARC rebels killed four soldiers and wounded six by setting a landmine that exploded when an army helicopter landed on it, ...Mexico nursing home fire kills 16
Fire swept through a nursing home before dawn in Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 16 residents, an official said. Another five seniors ...Greek government confident despite backlash over debt deal
Greece\'s leftwing government expressed confidence on Tuesday that parliament would approve a debt deal with lenders, despite an angry reaction from some ...Syrian Kurds seize military base from Islamic State
Kurdish-led forces in Syria seized a town from Islamic State on Tuesday after capturing a military base overnight, aided by U.S.-led air ...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 ...




