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Park postpones US trip as South Korea MERS death toll hits nine
South Korean President Park Geun-hye postponed a U.S. visit on Wednesday to supervise the handling of an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory ...Colombia accuses FARC rebels of oil spill
Colombian authorities accused the leftist FARC guerrillas Monday of forcing 19 oil tanker drivers to dump their cargo of crude on the ...Argentine Congress considers making street harassment crime
When she left her house each day, Aixa Rizzo would brace for a barrage of sexually-laden comments from male electricians working on ...Syrian rebels seize largest army base in Deraa
An alliance of Syrian rebel forces seized a key army base in the south of the country on Tuesday in a new ...Egypt court sentences 11 to death over soccer violence
An Egyptian criminal court from the Mediterranean city of Port Said on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to death over a 2012 soccer ...Massive blaze at Ukraine fuel depot
Emergency services stopped a fuel depot fire outside Kiev from spreading on Tuesday, officials said, but the fate of three firemen missing ...Russia orders quicker build-up of military facilities in Kurile Islands
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Monday ordered the speeding up of construction of military and civilian infrastructure on a chain of ...Seven Ukraine troops die in mine blast, endangering truce
At least seven Ukranian soldiers died on Monday when their truck hit a mine not far from a town where a recent ...Iran arrests former vice president under Ahmadinejad
Iranian authorities on Monday arrested a former vice president who served under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the second such detention of a senior ...Nepal parties resolve disputes over constitution after quake
Feuding political parties said on Monday they had agreed to split Nepal into eight federal provinces, ending years of stalemate over the ...




