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Oklahoma prison botches US inmate execution
Oklahoma halted the execution of a prison inmate due to problems with its lethal injection, but the man later died of an ...Senior US lawmaker blocks aid for Egyptian military
US senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, said on Tuesday he would not approve sending funds ...Abducted Nigerian girls sold into marriage to Islamist extremists
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks again are being sold to as wives to Islamic militants for as little as $12 each, it ...Airstrike on Syrian school kills 18, say activists
An air raid on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria\'s main northern city Aleppo hit a school, killing at least 18 people, 10 ...China says three killed in attack at Xinjiang train station
At least three people were killed and 79 injured when an explosion rocked a train station in Urumqi, the capital of China\'s ...Pro-Russian separatists seize second provincial capital
Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine seized another regional government headquarters on Tuesday.NBA bans LA Clippers owner for life over racist comments
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says ...58 killed after attacks hit two major cities in Syria
At least 58 people have been killed and scores wounded in a series of attacks in Syria. A car bomb killed 40 ...North Korea holds live-fire drill on maritime border
North Korea held a live-fire drill near its maritime border with South Korea on Tuesday, with Seoul vowing a “strong” response if ...US, EU impose sanctions on more Russian officials, firms
The U.S. and Europe have imposed sanctions on more than 60 Russian and Ukrainian individuals—many of them Russian executives and close Putin ...