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In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Algerian soldiers and officials stand in front of the gas plant in Ain Amenas, seen in background, during a visit organized by the Algerian authorities for news media. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday, June 13, 2015, targeting an al-Qaida leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on the gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages.

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Mokhtar Belmokhtar: Top Islamist 'killed' in US strike

15 June 2015 From the section US & Canada Belmokhtar was a former senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike, Libyan officials say. Mokhtar Belmokhtar and other fighters were killed in the operation in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, a

In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing the body of a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday, June 13, 2015, targeting an al-Qaida leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans

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Libya claims jihadi leader Belmokhtar killed in US air strike

Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who allegedly masterminded the siege of an Algerian gas plant in which 38 hostages died, has been killed in a US air strike, Libya's internationally recognised government said Sunday. "American jets conducted an operation which resulted in the deaths of Mokhtar Belmokhtar and a group of Libyans belonging to a terrorist organisation

File - Migrants sit on their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

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Any payments to people smugglers 'may have broken Australian law'

Exclusive: legal experts say breaches could carry jail terms of up to 20 years, but no prosecution could be undertaken without consent of attorney general

Workers wearing protective gears against MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus sanitize a public bus at a transport company in Seoul in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 15, 2015.

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South Korea MERS death toll rises to 16; Saudi Arabia reports 5 cases

Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Five new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have been confirmed in South Korea and another person has died from the virus, the country's Ministry of Health said Monday. That brings 16 deaths attributed to the virus and 150 total cases. The outbreak has sparked international concern, stalled the nation's economy and resulted in over 100,000

People stand in front of the Greek state television ERT headquarters

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Greece enters fateful week as Brussels talks end fruitlessly

Greece enters what could be a defining week after last-ditch negotiations between representatives of the Greek government and its creditors collapsed on Sunday. The euro dropped as the European Commission said the talks in Brussels had broken up after just 45 minutes with the divide between what creditors asked of Greece and what its government was prepared to do unbridged. The

People follow a hippopotamus that has been shot with a tranquilizer dart after it escaped from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 2015.

Deadly floods free animals

TBILISI, Georgia - Severe flooding in the Georgian capital left at least 12 people dead Sunday and triggered a big-game hunt across the city for lions, tigers, a hippopotamus, and other dangerous animals that escaped from Tbilisi's ravaged zoo. Residents were warned to stay indoors as police conducted the hunt, but fear deepened as night fell on the city of 1.1 million with

Comet robot lab Philae makes contact again: Agency

PARIS: Europe's robot lab Philae has made followup contact with Earth more than a day after sending home its first message in nearly seven months since landing on a comet, its ground operators said on Monday. The lander reestablished contact early Monday morning GMT, and is now "completely awake", Jean-Yves Le

President Omar al-Bashir casts his ballot as he runs for another term, on the first day of the presidential and legislative elections, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2015.

South Africa argues in court against Bashir's arrest

By Dinky Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa will on Monday argue against a court application to force the government to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, the justice ministry said. Bashir, who is in South Africa attending an African Union summit, stands accused in an ICC arrest warrant of war crimes and

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image was taken from a distance of 85.7 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 14 March 2015. Philae Lander awoke from a seven-month sleep and has communicated with Earth for more than a minute.

Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?

The Philae lander is back in action (Image: ESA/ATG medialab) What a wake-up call. On Saturday night, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne received 85 seconds of incredibly good news: a data chirp from the missing European Space Agency lander Philae. Despite seven months adrift and alone on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since its bumpy landing last year, Philae is

United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), in collaboration with UNICEF and Norwegian Refugees Council, are hosting the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) for students from Juba and Terekeka counties who have been displaced by the ongoing violence in South Sudan, 12 January, 2014.

Amnesty International report claims more than 50 million refugees now displaced in 'worst crisis seen ...

The number of refugees abandoned to “an unbearable existence” has now reached tens of millions according to a damning report from Amnesty International, which claims the world is witnessing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. Amnesty International is urging world leaders to radically overhaul their refugee policies and create a comprehensive global strategy to

CIA Director George Tenet testifies on Capitol Hill in this, Feb. 11, 2003 photo before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Tenet, buffeted by controversies over intelligence lapses, resigned Thursday, June 3, 2004, President Bush announced as he departed

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CIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation

Exclusive: Watchdogs shocked at ‘disconnect’ between doctors who oversaw interrogation and guidelines that gave CIA director power over medical ethics

Anna Faris, left, and Chris Pratt arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "Jurassic World" at the Dolby Theatre on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

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Jurassic World: The secret to its success

By Genevieve Hassan Entertainment reporter 15 June 2015 From the section Entertainment & Arts Jurassic World has become the first film to take more than $500m (£322m) at the global box office on its opening weekend. In the US it took $204.6m (£132m) according to early estimates, making it the second biggest opening weekend ever just behind 2012's Marvel's The Avengers with

Joyce Mitchell stands with her lawyer Steven Johnston, appearing before Judge Buck Rogers in Plattsburgh City Court, New York, for a hearing Monday June 15, 2015.

Prison Worker Joyce Mitchell In Court After Being Charged With Helping Murderers Escape

JOHN KEKIS, Associated Press DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in far northern New York made another court appearance Monday as the manhunt for the men hit its 10th day. Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who had befriended the inmates, had agreed to be the getaway

FILE - In this July 24, 2009, file photo, Rachel Dolezal, a leader of the Human Rights Education Institute, stands in front of a mural she painted at the institute's offices in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

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NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal resigns from Washington chapter

Rachel Dolezal, the leader of the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter has resigned amid furor over racial identity, according to the organization. lRelated US & World NewsSpokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal cancels meeting amid furorSee all related 8 She was facing calls to step aside after her parents said the 37-year-old activist falsely portrayed herself as black for

Pedestrians pass an American International Group office building Friday, March 20, 2009, in New York. AIG has handed out $165 million in employee bonuses, a move that has touched off a national firestorm.

Former AIG CEO Wins Case Against Government Bailout, But Won't Get Damages

Hank Greenberg's case against the U.S. government in the bailout of American International Group, the insurance behemoth he created and put on a path to catastrophic failure, ended the way it started: as an awkward, enraging and attention-grabbing combination of legal trolling and crisis-era accountability. Monday morning, Judge Thomas Wheeler of the U.S. Court of Federal

Hundreds of supporters welcome Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, center, on his arrival from South Africa as he walks through the crowd at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, June 15, 2015.

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Sudan president Omar al-Bashir leaves South Africa as court considers arrest

The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, has flown home, leaving South Africa in defiance of a court order that he must remain to face an international arrest warrant.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Jeb Bush vows to fix Washington as he announces his bid for presidency

'We will take Washington - the static capital of this dynamic country - out of the business of causing problems' ... US Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush. Photo: AFP Miami: Former Florida governor Jeb Bush began his US presidential bid on Monday with a vow to fix a dysfunctional Washington and "get events in the world moving our way again." In excerpts

Florida man snaps hilarious photo of raccoon standing on top of alligator

Richard Jones calls this the “photo of a lifetime,” and it’s hard to argue that this picture of a raccoon seeming to hitch a ride on top of an alligator is anything but. … Click to Continue »/a

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. Militants from an al-Qaida splinter group held a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria, displaying U.S.-made Humvees, heavy machine guns, and missiles captured from the Iraqi army for the first time since taking over large parts of the Iraq-Syria border.

Kurdish fighters seize large parts of IS border stronghold

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters captured large sections of a strategic town on the Syria-Turkish border on Monday, dealing the biggest setback yet to the Islamic State group, which lost a key supply line for their nearby self-proclaimed capital. The seizure of Tal Abyad threatened to flare tensions between Kurds and ethnic Arabs, who accused the Kurdish militia of

A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Friday, June 21, 2013.

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Russia and China 'broke into Snowden files to identify British and US spies'

Sunday Times says Downing Street believes both nations have hacked into American whistleblower’s files, and that agents have been put in peril

Rupert Murdoch hands Fox CEO job to son James

In Defense of Obama's 'No Complete Strategy' Policy

FDA bans hydrogenated oils from American food supply

Kirk Kerkorian, Three-Time Owner of MGM, Dead at 98

Donald Trump announces he's running for president in 2016 -- for real this time

U.S. civil rights advocate says she identifies herself as black

Fathers of missing children 'distraught' over fears mothers taking them to join Isis in Syria

UK inflation rate rises to 0.1%