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  • Leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement warned of "serious repercussions" and called on its supporters to "rise in revolt" after Egyptian police killed 13 of its members.

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  • Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on Friday after he "threw stones" at their patrol, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Mohammad Kosba, 17, was killed…

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  • Two small bombs exploded in Colombia's capital Bogota on Thursday afternoon, injuring seven, according to the Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas who said he would deploy greater numbers of…

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  • Militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian Army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 50 soldiers…

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  • Syrian Kurdish forces regained full control of Tal Abyad on Wednesday, expelling Islamic State militants who had seized a district of the strategic border town, a monitor said.

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  • The most dangerous and troubling among the terror attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait, France, Egypt and Yemen in the past week are probably the Kuwait and Egypt attacks.

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  • Islamic State threatened the Palestinian group Hamas on Wednesday, vowing to end the faction’s government in the territory.

    In a 16-minute long video shared by social media accounts…

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  • China’s legislature passed sweeping legislation on Wednesday that reinforces government controls over cyberspace, as the nation’s leaders try to address what they see as growing threats to Chinese…

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  • Cuba and the United States have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries’ historic bid to restore ties after more than half a century of…

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  • The US State Department released nearly 2,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s time as top US diplomat late on Tuesday, following orders from a federal judge.

    The large tranche of emails,…

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  • A record 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war, conflict and persecution, the United Nations said on…

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  • Some 1,200 prisoners, including convicted murderers and Al-Qaeda members, walked out of a Yemeni jail when fighting led guards to abandon their posts, in the latest example of instability in Yemen…

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  • Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters marched for full democracy on Wednesday and called on the Chinese-controlled city’s leader to resign, just weeks after lawmakers voted down an electoral…

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  • Indonesian officials said 141 bodies have been recovered after a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan on Tuesday. The military said all of the 122 people on board the…

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  • Seifeddine Rezgui, the gunman who killed 38 people at a beach hotel in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse last Friday, had trained in a militant camp in Libya last year, Tunisia’s government said…

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  • The US National Security Agency wiretapped two of France’s economy ministers and spied on the country’s largest companies, French media reported, citing WikiLeaks documents, just days after it…

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  • At least 115 people aboard an Indonesian airforce C-130 have been killed, when the plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in the city of Medan on the northern island of Sumatra, on Tuesday,…

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  • A man set himself on fire on a high-speed bullet train in Japan on Tuesday, killing himself and another passenger as the coach filled with smoke, a fire official said.

    At least 26 other…

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  • A car bomb exploded overnight in the Yemeni capital Sana'a, killing at least 28 people, including eight women, medics said on Tuesday.

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  • The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such executions of female civilians in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday.…

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  • Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad, from giant “…

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  • A suicide truck bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed two civilians and wounded more than 40, officials said, in the latest attack since the Taliban began their annual offensive. The…

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  • Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has “retired” the army’s chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since militants overran large parts of the country last year, his spokesman said…

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  • The United States said on Monday it was resuming security aid to Bahrain’s military forces, citing “meaningful progress” on human rights four years after the kingdom’s deadly crackdown on anti-…

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  • A series of fires at African-American churches across the US south has prompted the FBI to investigate whether the blazes are related.

    Last week six fires hit black churches in Florida,…

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