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  United Nations, United States: The UN peace envoy for Syria urged world powers Tuesday to build on the "momentum" of new international talks...

  Nagoya, Japan: Japan's first domestic passenger jet successfully took off on its maiden test flight Wednesday, culminating a decade of development for a...

       United Nations, United States: A UN peacekeeper was killed in the Central African Republic Tuesday following a clash with Muslim Seleka rebels that...

   Chicago: As many as nine people were feared dead Tuesday after a small private jet crashed into an apartment building in the midwestern...

   Washington: President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold measures shielding around four million undocumented migrants from deportation....

Sitiveni Qiliho   Suva: Fiji's police chief has resigned abruptly, accusing the military in the coup-plagued Pacific nation of interfering with his job. Highly...

   Benghazi: At least 13 members of Libya's army were killed by "terrorist" violence on Tuesday in the east of the war-torn country, an...

   Dakar: The French army has stepped up its bombing campaign against the Islamic State group's oil infrastructure with two new strikes in eastern...

   BUJUMBURA, Burundi: The U.S. envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region on Tuesday urged Burundi's government and the opposition to start internationally mediated talks...

  Russia wants the Syrian government and opposition to agree on launching a constitutional reform process of up to 18 months, followed by early...

  By Marta Nogueira BENTO RODRIGUES, Brazil: Rescuers abandoned a search for 7-year-old Tiago Damasceno in the muddy aftermath of a Brazilian dam collapse...

A Syrian refugee flashes the victory sign after arriving on the shores of Greece. AFP   By Tania Karas LESBOS, Greece: A young woman...

  By Mustafa Andalid GHAZNI, Afghanistan: A protest convoy drove the bodies of seven members of Afghanistan's minority Hazara community to the capital Kabul...

Migrants wait to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border from the Slovenian city of Sentilj, on November 6, 2015. AFP   Slovenia will in the coming...

   GENEVA: The United Nations said on Tuesday extra-judicial killings, torture and detentions were increasing in Burundi and warned that the international organisation is...

  Credit data company Experian Plc (EXPN.L) said it had received a number of class actions related to the theft of T-Mobile US Inc...

   By Victoria Bryan and Peter Maushagen BERLIN/FRANKFURT: Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) filed injunctions on Tuesday to try to end what is shaping up to be...

In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 photo, Mullah Mohammed Rasool, the newly-elected leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, speaks during a...