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  • Kenya police kill "terror couple"

    Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police ... 

  • Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

    Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ... 

  • Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

    Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security ... 

  • Plane catches fire landing in Moscow; no injuries

    Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of ... 

  • Young British girl drowns at Egyptian resort

    A senior Egyptian prosecutor says a 5-year-old British girl has drowned in pool at a Red Sea resort. The official, who obtained an initial police ... 

  • Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq

    Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight ... 

  • Official: 10 killed in explosion in Turkey

    Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people. The governor's office in Hatay province said ... 

  • George Michael

    George Michael injured in another car crash

    George Michael was being treated at a hospital Friday for what his publicist called minor injuries after being a passenger in a car crash near London. 

  • Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles

    A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities who had ... 

  • UK officials: BP not seeking gov't help with spill

    British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in ... 

  • Jordan jet crashes near Syrian border, 2 killed

    Jordan's military says a trainer jet has crashed near the Syrian border, killing its two Jordanian pilots. A spokesman says the British-made aerobatic ... 

  • Nepal plane crash injures 21, including 8 Japanese

    A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese ... 

  • 6 Russian crew killed in ship fire in north Japan

    Six Russian crew members have died in a fire aboard their freighter in a northern Japanese port. Takashi Kagaya, a police officer in Wakkanai, on the ... 

  • As rain from cyclone falls, Myanmar minority stay

    A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the ... 

  • Trade group slams safety pact for Bangladesh

    The largest U.S. retail-industry group on Wednesday criticized an international pact aimed at improving factory conditions in Bangladesh's garment ... 

  • Wave of bombings kills at least 33 in Iraq

    A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad's main Shiite district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 ... 

  • Greece: Girl, 6, drowns as migrant boat sinks

    A 6-year-old girl drowned when a small boat crammed with immigrants trying to enter Greece illegally sank off an eastern Aegean Sea islet. 

  • Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30

    Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as the ... 

  • Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya minority capsize

    An overcrowded boat capsized while trying to escape a cyclone bearing down on Myanmar, tossing dozens of members of the displaced Rohingya minority ... 

  • Chains grapple with how to improve safety

    While several more global clothing chains on Tuesday were announcing that they agreed to a historic pact to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh, ... 

  • Bangladesh honors the dead from building collapse

    Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people ... 

  • Darlin Lexima

    Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks

    Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters ... 

  • Francesco Schettino, Francesco Pepe

    No plea bargain for captain in Italian shipwreck

    Italian prosecutors on Tuesday rejected a plea bargain bid by the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off Italy last year, ... 

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