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ISTANBUL // Thirty-five people were killed when a gunman reportedly dressed as Santa Claus stormed an Istanbul nightclub as revellers were c...
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Vladimir Putin on Friday announced Russia would not expel any American diplomats after the United States kicked out 35 Russian embassy and c...
KUMANOVO, MACEDONIA // The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while h...
WASHINGTON // US president Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russian officials and intelligence services on Thursday in retaliation for Mosc...
BELGRADE // At a child care centre in Belgrade, a drawing of a Christmas tree is dotted with colourful paper stickers where young refugees h...
HELSINKI // A Finnish court sentenced the former chief detective of the Helsinki police drug squad to ten years in prison on Thursday for ta...
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Italian chemists have found a way to make a widely-used industrial chemical from natural, not oil-based products. http://ift.tt/2hrkeiP 3...
Have you heard about World War Three? It's the war in which Germany saves Europe from fascism. This bitter joke encapsulates everything ...
Istanbul // Turkey and Russia have agreed a ceasefire throughout Syria, the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. Bu...
BEIRUT // While the specifics of Donald Trump's foreign policy are largely yet to be revealed, some things are certain. One is that he w...
MOSCOW // Russia on Wednesday blasted a report in The New York Times which said officials had acknowledged a massive sports doping conspira...
Berlin // German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian they believe "could have been involved" in the Berlin Christmas market at...
For France, 2016 ends as it began, with the nation under a state of emergency following terrorist outrages and in anticipation of more to co...
WASHINGTON // US-Russian talks on the two countries' separate fights against ISIL are becoming more productive and more frequent, US off...
"I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set ...
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ISTANBUL // Twenty-nine Turkish former police officers are on trial in Istanbul, accused of aiding the failed military coup in July - the fi...
SOCHI, Russia // Rescue workers on Tuesday found a flight recorder from the Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, ...
PARIS // French sailor Thomas Coville arrived in the port of Brest on Monday morning, hours after smashing the world record for a single-han...
BEIJING // It was strangely muted when George Michael, as part of the British pop duo Wham!, took the stage at Beijing's Workers Gymnasi...
BERLIN // Calls grew in Germany on Monday for the government to posthumously honour the Polish lorry driver who is believed to have saved ma...
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The plane, a Russian Defence Ministry TU-154, was carrying dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members to Syria where th...
Moscow // The acclaimed Red Army Choir, which lost 64 members in a plane crash Sunday, has been a potent symbol for projecting Moscow's ...
VATICAN CITY // Pope Francis urged peace in the Middle East on Sunday as tens of thousands gathered to hear his Christmas address - also off...
Behind the scenes at the Canadian Space Agency to meet the team that controls the Canadarm 2, trains astronauts to use space robots, and dev...
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MOSCOW // A Russian military plane headed to Syria has disappeared from radar after taking off from the southern city of Adler, local news a...
Berlin // Germany was searching on Saturday for possible accomplices of the Berlin truck attacker as Tunisia announced the arrest of three m...
BELGRADE // Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian stewardess who survived a plunge from 10,000 metres after her plane exploded in mid-air in 1972, has di...
The year of Samsung's overheating handsets, Apple's wireless headphones and Mario not as super as Pokemon. http://ift.tt/2hBovRy ...
Beirut // Turks reacted angrily on Friday after a video released by ISIL that purportedly shows two captured Turkish soldiers being burned a...
ISTANBUL // In late November, a group of livestock breeders in the central Anatolian province of Aksaray were filmed setting fire to stacks ...
BERLIN / CAIRO // The main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack was shown pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video...