WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Where is Saddam Hussein when you need him? Granted, his illegal acts were of serious concern to the West. But compared to the Islamic State of Iraq and...
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The Times of India WASHINGTON: Muslims in the US and around the world have a responsibility to fight a misconception that terrorist groups like the Islamic State speak for them, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday...
BBC News An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have announced. No other star has is known to have approached this close to us. An international team of researchers...
Stars and Stripes ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — Ukraine has pulled most of its troops out of Debaltseve, the epicenter of recent fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine, the president confirmed Wednesday. The Russia-backed...
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Business Insider AFPISIS militants in Aleppo, Syria. In a bid to finance its operations, the Islamic State group might be harvesting human organs, Iraq’s ambassador to the U.N. told the intergovernmental organization on Tuesday, and asked the Security Council to...
The Siasat Daily United Nations, February 18: The UN Security Council Wednesday backed the Ukraine peace agreements signed in Minsk, Belarus and demanded the immediate cessation of violence. The council urged the rebels to comply with the ceasefire in force since...
The Times of India NEW DELHI: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a strong pitch for military indigenisation, saying that the country's defence industry was at the core of his 'Make in India' mission. Inaugurating Aero India 2015 in Bengaluru, the prime...
CNN (CNN)Although Lunar New Year in China doesn't officially start until February 19, the epic homecoming party began earlier this month. Chunyun, or spring migration, is the world's largest annual human migration. It's triggered in part by millions of...
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ABC News Share World News Videos | US News Videos Copy Vice President Joe Biden kicked off a three-day White House summit on combating violent extremism with a call for "answers that go beyond force." "We need answers that go beyond a military answer," Biden...
The Miami Herald The White House will suspend plans to begin giving more than 4 million immigrants here illegally work permits as it pursues an appeal of a Texas federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocks President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration....
Yahoo Daily News By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - Explosions hit an opposition political rally in southern Nigeria on Tuesday and Islamist insurgents struck in the north, with unrest spreading after a presidential election was postponed. A police officer was killed and...
The Guardian Luka Magnotta, 32, was found guilty in December of killing and dismembering Jun Lin, whose body parts were found in the trash in Montreal ...
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