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BBC News | 2016-02-07

Taiwan rescuers find signs of life in quake rubble

WPXI | 2016-02-07

North Korea fires rocket seen as covert missile test

South China Morning Post | 2016-02-07

Bhutan's queen Jetsun Pema gives birth to a baby boy

The Times of India | 2016-02-06

Congo to probe alleged sex abuse by peacekeeers in CAR

Al Jazeera | 2016-02-06

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on moon, dies at 85

Longview News Journal | 2016-02-06

Economic data challenge Fed’s policymakers

Taipei Times | 2016-02-07

Alibaba needs to think big on world stage

China Daily | 2016-02-06

Oil prices keep falling, ending volatile week

Press TV | 2016-02-06

Chinese-led investors plan to buy Chicago Stock Exchange

Jakarta Post | 2016-02-06

US stocks: Nasdaq ends at lowest level since October 2014

The Times of India | 2016-02-05

With no president in sight, Haiti gets transitional government

Afghan militants capture Helmand’s Sangin district

Taiwan Earthquake: 6.4 quake topples buildings in city of Tainan - BBC News

07 Feb 2016 | Breaking: North Korea Just Launched a Long-Range Missile into Space

Bhutan's Queen Jetsun Pema gives birth to crown prince

UN to repatriate 120 peacekeepers over C.A.R sex abuses

Edgar Mitchell Apollo Moonwalker Dies at 85 (silent video)

Taiwan Earthquake: 6.4 quake topples buildings in city of Tainan - BBC News

Civilians flee Aleppo as Syrian army and Russian air power lay siege

"A Significant Victory": Julian Assange Hails U.N. Panel Calling for His Freedom

The President Delivers a Statement on the Paris Climate Agreement

Oregon Rancher Standoff Shooting, Ammon Bundy Arrested | True News

WHO: Zika virus spreading to almost all the Americas

BIG Move: Pope Francis to Meet Patriarch Kirill In Cuba to Heal 1,000 Year Rift

ICC trial begins of former Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo

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Haiti's president departs to make way for interim government

Stars and Stripes | 2016-02-07

Haiti's president departs to make way for interim government

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Michel Martelly made his farewell speech to Haiti as he departed office Sunday with no successor yet chosen because a runoff election was scrapped last month amid violent protests and...

photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery

Sangin 'on verge of falling back into Taliban hands'

BBC News | 2016-02-07

Sangin 'on verge of falling back into Taliban hands'

The key district of Sangin in the southern Afghan province of Helmand is once again on the verge of being overrun by the Taliban, according to an Afghan army commander. The commander, who wishes to remain anonymous, told...

photo: USMC / Sgt. Dustin D. March

Taiwan rescuers find signs of life in quake rubble

WPXI | 2016-02-07

Taiwan rescuers find signs of life in quake rubble

Rescuers on Sunday found signs of life within the remains of a high-rise residential building that collapsed in a powerful, shallow earthquake in southern Taiwan that killed at least 19 people, as families anxiously...

photo: AP / Wally Santana

North Korea fires rocket seen as covert missile test

South China Morning Post | 2016-02-07

North Korea fires rocket seen as covert missile test

North Korea on Sunday defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket that the United Nations and others call a cover for a banned test of technology for a missile that could strike the U.S. mainland. The...

photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

Bhutan's queen Jetsun Pema gives birth to a baby boy

The Times of India | 2016-02-06

Bhutan's queen Jetsun Pema gives birth to a baby boy

GUWAHATI: The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan has a new crown prince. The Royal Media Office in capital Thimphu said that the baby boy was born on Friday to king Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and his wife, queen Jetsun...

photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi

Congo to probe alleged sex abuse by peacekeeers in CAR

Al Jazeera | 2016-02-06

Congo to probe alleged sex abuse by peacekeeers in CAR

The Republic of Congo has launched an investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse involving its troops serving as UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR). "Under a memorandum of understanding...

photo: UN / Catianne Tijerina

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on moon, dies at 85

Longview News Journal | 2016-02-06

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on moon, dies at 85

MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring the mind,...