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The prime minister isn’t convinced On Saturday night, hours after masked settlers attacked a delegation of European diplomats in the West Bank village of…
The withdrawal nobody announced in advance — but everybody saw coming Macky Sall is out. The former president of Senegal announced on Saturday that…
The day of action France’s protest movement had been building toward for weeks finally arrived on Saturday — and by nightfall, it had turned…
COLOMBO — On Saturday afternoon, an island nation of 22 million people discovered that too much of a good thing can switch off the…
Seventeen people are dead and at least 25 injured after a crowd crush at a Durga Puja pavilion in Kolkata on Saturday evening —…
Kenya’s Ebola outbreak has more than doubled in a day. The health ministry confirmed on Saturday that four more people have tested positive for…
An ammunition stockpile blew up inside a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) headquarters in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing one paramilitary fighter and wounding four…
Kenya’s health ministry confirmed on Friday that a third person has tested positive for Ebola — a 65-year-old woman who was already in quarantine…
A rain shower on one of the biggest evenings of India’s biggest festival turned deadly in Kolkata on Saturday, when a crowd crush at…
The meals were supposed to look prettier. That was the entire point. In a courtroom in Lanzhou on Friday, the owner of a kindergarten…
