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  • Tunisian authorities have arrested 127 suspected “terrorists” since last month’s attack on tourists at a beach resort, the minister heading the crisis group on the incident said Saturday.

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  • Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab ordered on Saturday to rebuild Italian Consulate in Cairo that was damaged by a terrorist attack by the Islamic State extremist group earlier in the day,…

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  • The Islamic State group released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits in Tikrit.

    The highest estimates put at 1,700 the number of cadets IS gunmen captured…

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  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently made the remarkable statement that flexibility on sovereignty over the Spratly Islands would shame China’s ancestors, and that if “the gradual and…

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  • Tunisia's government said it has deployed 100,000 security personnel to protect the country and prevent new attacks, including 3,000 dedicated to protecting beaches, hotels and archeological sites…

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  • A man dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring 74, a police spokesman said.

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  • A car bomb exploded early Saturday outside the Italian Consulate in Cairo, destroying several floors of the historic building in a powerful blast that killed one Egyptian, the latest casualty in…

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  • Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Islamic State group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region, has been killed in a drone strike, the Afghan intelligence agency said.

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  • Those having trouble making sense of the American presidential election campaign need not worry: It does not make any sense. The 2016 race is shaping up as the weirdest in modern times, owing not…

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  • The man accused of shooting dead nine black Charleston churchgoers was able to purchase the handgun that killed them only because of FBI failures, its director said Friday.

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  • Seven people were killed and 11 others wounded in a series of attacks in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, police said on Saturday.

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  • Saudi warplanes launched airstrikes on Yemen, hours after a UN-brokered humanitarian truce was declared, while UN Security Council had urged all parties in the conflict to “exercise restraint.”…

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  • Some 150,000 migrants and refugees have so far this year made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, and more than 1,900 of them have died, the International Organization for…

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  • UN experts said Friday that almost 5,500 Tunisians are fighting alongside militants abroad, urging Tunis to adopt a “national strategic plan” to curb the flow.

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  • An Israeli drone crashed in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Saturday, the military said, in the second such incident in three weeks. The Lebanese military said a drone belonging to…

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  • The director of the US Office of Personnel Management resigned on Friday after a massive data breach affected more than 20 million people. Katherine Archuleta said she stepped down to help the…

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  • It was not “faulty intelligence,” as Jeb Bush claims, that led to the war in Iraq.  He knows better.  His brother’s administration meant to invade Iraq from its first days in…

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  • Five airports in Indonesia have been shut because of a volcanic eruption, stranding travelers across the country, including those in the tourist hotspot Bali, transport officials said on Friday.…

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  • South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday signed a bill to remove the controversial Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia, 50 years after it first went up in protest of civil rights…

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  • Pope Francis on Thursday apologized for the “sins and offenses” committed by the Catholic Church against indigenous people during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

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  • Yemen's warring factions confirmed their agreement on Thursday to a temporary humanitarian ceasefire set to begin on Friday night, United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.

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  • Data breaches at the US government’s personnel management agency by hackers involve millions more people than previously estimated, US officials said on Thursday.

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  • More than four million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees in the surrounding region, a million of them in the past 10 months alone, the United Nations said…

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  • At least two people were killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting in northern Bavaria in Germany.

    An 18-year-old German was arrested after an elderly woman and a cyclist were shot dead near…

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  • Fifty-five percent of the world’s poor still have limited protection from hunger and economic, social or political crises despite expansion of social safety programs in developing countries in…

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