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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, right, arrive for a news conference after the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

'Cessation Of Hostilities' In Syria Reached By Major World Powers In Munich Talks

The major world powers have reached an agreement on “cessation of hostilities in Syria’s five-year-long civil war that allows for immediate humanitarian access to besieged areas, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced in Munich a short time ago, The Washington Post reported. The end of hostilities is scheduled to take place in one week, Kerry said with humanitarian

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Pope Francis makes symbolic trip to troubled Mexico

Jorge Santamaria sits at his easel outside Mexico City's cathedral, palette in hand. He is putting the finishing touches to a painting of Pope Francis. "This is a homage to him," he says. There is a great deal of affection towards the Argentine Pope here and a lot of excitement ahead of the pontiff's first visit to Mexico, which has the second biggest Catholic population in the

David Cameron to lay out EU reform 'wider agenda' case

David Cameron will spell out his case for reforming the European Union as he prepares for next week's crunch summit in Brussels. The Prime Minister is expected to use an address to the annual St Matthew's Day banquet in Hamburg, Germany, to set out the "wider agenda" behind his renegotiation of Britain's EU membership. Share Go To It will be his final set piece speech on the

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IMF boss Christine Lagarde set for second term

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has been nominated for a second five-year term at the helm. The former French finance minister was the only nominee for the directorship. Commentators had said there were no

Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, right, makes a point as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee.

Clinton, Sanders clash over minorities, money and Obama

MILWAUKEE — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battled for the crucial backing of black and Hispanic voters in Thursday night's Democratic debate and clashed heatedly over their support for Barack Obama as the presidential race shifted toward states with more minority voters. Clinton, who has cast herself as the rightful heir to Obama's legacy, accused Sanders of diminishing

File - An Afghan army soldier provides security from a guard tower during meetings at the Khyber Border Coordination Center near Torkham Gate at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, Jan. 4, 2015.

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IS threat

It is a blunt, though perhaps unsurprising, warning: the country’s top civilian spymaster, director general of the Intelligence Bureau, Aftab Sultan, has told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that the militant Islamic State group is in fact an emerging threat in the country, particularly because sectarian militant outfits and elements of the banned TTP are sympathetic

File - Members of the Michigan National Guard distribute bottled water to passing motorists, as part of the Michigan Guard support to the water distribution mission in Flint.

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Michigan state sued over toxic water disaster

US President Barack Obama has declared a federal emergency over the Michigan city of Flint's lead-poisoned water crisis that has affected its almost 100,000 residents, with children suffering the most, over almost two years. The White House on Saturday authorised the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts to "alleviate the hardship and

File - Brazilian soldiers hand out booklets during an awareness campaign on combating the Aedes aegypti mosquito and the Zika virus it carries.

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IOC medical chief seeks to allay Zika fears

LONDON (AP) — Seeking to allay fears over the Zika outbreak, the IOC medical director said "everything that can be done is being done" to combat the virus in Brazil and provide safe conditions for athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Richard Budgett said there are no health warnings against traveling to Brazil, except for

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Why North Korea will benefit from Seoul's great leap backwards

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Twin grenade attacks in Karachi leave residents panicked

CCTV footage showing the attackers on motorcycles. KARACHI: Twin grenade explosions in different parts of Karachi on Friday left residents panicked. A police officer stands on guard near the Mobina Town police station. ─ DawnNews A policeman was injured when a homemade grenade was hurled at

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on February 11, 2016, at the Hilton Hotel in Munich, Germany, before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group.

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Ceasefire due to begin in Syria within a week: Lavrov

Russia’s foreign minister says a ceasefire is to take effect in Syria within a week, urging the Saudi-backed opposition to abandon its “unconstructive” stance and return to the negotiating table without preconditions. “I hope that the opposition and those who control various groups of opposition will have no more reasons to somehow avoid

File - This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 1487, lying about 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Eridanus.

'With gravitational wave detection, we can now listen to the stars'

WASHINGTON: As the momentous news of gravitational waves being detected 100 years after Albert Einstein's prediction broke on Thursday, scientists discussing the significance of the major discovery revealed that this discovery would enable us not just to see the stars, but also to listen to them. Analysis of the gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime -

Secretary-General applauds Canada's commitment to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees

Feb 12, Ottawa: During his fifth visit to Canada as United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon today applauded the country's commitment to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees, stressing that they “deserve opportunity, human rights protection and peace.” “Although I will be in Canada for

File - H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the new Republic of South Sudan, greets guests at the Independence celebrations in Juba, South Sudan, on July 9 2011.

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Hopes rise for South Sudan peace deal

South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir names rival Riek Machar as deputy, fuelling hopes of end to two years of ethnic conflict

File - The Onboard Scientific Imaging System (OSIRIS) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft captured this parting shot of the mission's Philae lander after its separation from the mother ship on Nov. 12, 2014.

Scientists bid farewell to comet lander Philae

NEW DELHI: It is time to bid final good bye to the Philae lander, a fridge-sized machine that landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Friday. Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on the comet from which it is unlikely to recover, ESA said.

After a week of working together to clean the cemetery in Bangui's Boeing area, Muslims and Christians (of all denominations) signed an agreement of non-aggression, and officially opened on 11 February, 2016, the cemetery in the district, which had remained inaccessible to the Muslim community for a long time.

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Candidates promise unity in Central African Republic vote

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — For more than two years, even going to the cemetery to bury a loved one could get a mourner killed too. The threat of attack from Christian militia fighters was once so high that Muslims here began burying their dead at home. Now the capital's largest Muslim cemetery has reopened just ahead of the country's landmark presidential runoff

File - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz listen as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters after the Secretaries spoke with Senators about the Iran nuclear deal on September 9, 2015, in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Senate passes bill to hit North Korea with harsher sanctions

WASHINGTON — Seeking to derail North Korea's drive for nuclear weapons, Republican and Democratic senators set aside their partisan differences Wednesday to unanimously pass legislation aimed at starving Pyongyang of the money it needs to build an atomic arsenal. The Senate approved the sanctions bill 96-0 after lawmakers repeatedly denounced Pyongyang for flouting

Call to end female genital cutting

On the day of the 13th International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), UNICEF, UNFPA and other development partners are calling on all stakeholders in Sierra Leone — from health workers, traditional initiators or soweiis, traditional and religious leaders, to policy makers and influencers – to mobilize against this harmful practice. FGM/C

Barbed wire near by the entrance to the concentration camp Auschwitz I

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Auschwitz: Reinhold Hanning to go on trial in Germany

A 94-year former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp is due to go on trial in Germany over the murder of at least 170,000 people. Prosecutors say Reinhold Hanning met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in occupied Poland and may have escorted some to the gas

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How Putin is succeeding in Syria

Russia is succeeding in Syria where the West has failed, by setting an achievable goal and committing enough force to reach it, as Jonathan Marcus reports. ...

Al-Shabab claims Somalia bomb plane attack

Pope, Russian patriarch hold historic meeting

Saudis sending jets to Turkey base to fight Daesh: Report

Bill Murray offers to pay for fans' phones he 'threw from rooftop restaurant'

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter says Britain must renew Trident to maintain ‘outsized’ role in world

Former Obama intel official: Hillary Clinton should drop out

US scientists warn on 'dustbowl' risk

Canadian Man Missing For 30 Years Remembers Who He Is