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Narendra Modi wins landslide victory in Indian election
India\'s opposition leader Narendra Modi and his party won national elections in a landslide Friday, preliminary results showed, driving the long-dominant Congress ...Blast near border crossing point between Syria and Turkey kills 43
At least 43 people have been killed and many others wounded in an explosion in northwestern Syria, near a border crossing with ...Israel troops kill 2 Palestinians in Nakba Day clashes
Israeli forces Thursday shot dead two Palestinians during a Nakba Day demonstration in the West Bank, prompting a Palestinian warning of a ...9/11 Museum opens in New York
U.S. President Obama commemorated victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at the recently completed museum and memorial in a service Thursday.Pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy
A pregnant Sudanese woman who refused to renounce her Christianity was sentenced to death by hanging Thursday in a Khartoum court, provoking ...Unions call for nationwide strike after Turkish mine disaster kills 282
Four Turkish labor unions called for a national one-day strike on Thursday in protest against the country\'s worst industrial disaster that killed ...Anti-China protests leave 21 dead in Vietnam
At least 21 people were killed as anti-China riots in southern Vietnam escalated and spread to the center of the country on ...Jill Abramson replaced as New York Times executive editor
The New York Times Co on Wednesday replaced executive editor Jill Abramson in a surprising move after less than three years in ...At least two killed, 21 wounded in attack on Thai protesters
Two people were killed and at least 21 wounded on Thursday in an explosion near an anti-government protest site in the Thai ...Protests erupt in Turkey as death toll at coal mine reaches 245
A violent protest erupted Wednesday in the Turkish city of Soma, where at least 238 coal miners have died after a mine ...