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Two Turkish police killed in gun attack blamed on PKK: reports

ISTANBUL: Two Turkish police were killed Friday in a gun attack on police headquarters in the southern region of Adana blamed on Kurdish militants, the official Anatolia news agency reported. The gunmen fired on police headquarters in the city of Pozanti, sparking clashes which left two police as... read more »

Mexico: Death toll 27 after truck hits r...

Mexico: Death toll 27 after truck hits religious procession

MEXICO CITY: The death toll rose to 27 on Thursday and authorities listed 149 others as injured after a truck lost control and slammed into a religious procession in a central Mexico town. A Public Safety Department official for the state of Zacatecas confirmed the figures and said some of those... read more »

Taliban confirm Mullah Omar’s deat...

Taliban confirm Mullah Omar’s death, name new leader

confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and appointed his successor Thursday, as a new round of peace talks was indefinitely postponed amid concerns over how committed the new leadership is to ending the militant group’s 14-year insurgency.The Afghan Taliban Shura, or... read more »

MH370 search: Malaysian experts on way t...

MH370 search: Malaysian experts on way to island to study plane debris R...

The loss of communication and bizarre flight path of MH370 led a US intelligence assesment and many aviation experts to speculate that the plane was deliberately steered off course. However, mechanical failure remains a strong possibility. So while the discovery of the debris provides a significant... read more »

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Iranian jets attack Isis in eastern Iraq

A US official late on Tuesday all but confirmed reports that Iran has conducted air strikes against Islamist militants in eastern Iraq in recent days, but declined to confirm whether... read more »

Somalia bomb: Several killed near airport

Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia, police say. The bomber drove between the convoy and its security escort near the airport in the... read more »

2 children, 1 adult killed when school buses collide in Tennessee

KNOXVILLE – Three people died and 23 were injured when two school buses collided on a highway in East Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday. Two of the dead were children, while an adult aide... read more »

India votes against UNGA resolution on nuclear weapons

India, along with the US and Pakistan, has voted against a provision in a UN resolution calling on to “promptly” accede to the NPT as non-nuclear- weapon nation “without... read more »

Lebanon detains Islamic State leader Baghdadi’s wife

ebanese security forces have detained a wife and young child of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the border with Syria, the army says. The pair were picked up by military... read more »