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Female fighters take on Islamic State in Syria
HASAKEH, Syria – Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in...
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Fire at Russian psychiatric hospital kills 23
MOSCOW, Russia – Twenty-three psychiatric patients, most of them elderly, died when a fire ripped through their care facility in southern Russia Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila), in the latest...
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Grace Poe: Compel power distributors to use renewable energy
MANILA, Philippines – Presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe pushed for changes in the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, as she welcomed the historic global climate pact signed in Paris. Poe said the law...
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China commemorates Nanjing massacre in somber ceremony
BEIJING, China – China commemorated victims of a historic massacre by Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing for the second time on Sunday, December 13, holding a sober official memorial that...
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Women win seats in historic Saudi vote
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – At least 2 women won municipal council seats in Saudi Arabia's first ever election open to female voters and candidates, officials said Sunday, December 13, in a milestone for...
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Pope hails climate deal, but stresses need to help poor
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday, December 13, hailed the UN climate accord reached in Paris but warned the key now lay in its implementation, especially in help for the poor."The climate...
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Albay suspends work due to Typhoon Nona
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Albay Governor Joey Salceda suspended work in the southeastern Luzon province except for disaster response as Typhoon Nona (international name Melor) was forecast to...
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Pope welcomes UN-backed roadmap on Syria, efforts in Libya
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis welcomed a United Nations-backed roadmap to end the Syrian war on Sunday, December 20, and said recent efforts to establish a national unity government in Libya sparked...
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Burundi rejects African Union peacekeepers as 'invasion force'
NAOROBI, Kenya – Burundi's government said Sunday, December 20, it would not agree to the deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers, warning that they would be seen as "an invasion force". The...
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Nepal police kill protester in constitutional crisis clash
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepali police shot and killed a protester Sunday, December 20, after fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains, deepening the crisis over a new constitution, an official...
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Afghan province close to falling to Taliban – official
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand is on the verge of falling to the Taliban, with 90 soldiers killed in two days of fierce clashes, its deputy governor said Sunday,...
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Final day of Yemen peace talks as ceasefire crumbles
GENEVA, Switzerland – Representatives of Yemen's warring sides were meeting Sunday, December 20, for a final day of UN-backed peace negotiations, concluding nearly a week of talks with few results and...
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SpaceX counts down to first rocket launch since blast
MIAMI, United States – SpaceX on Sunday, December 20, counted down to its first rocket launch since an explosion after liftoff destroyed its unmanned Dragon cargo ship bound for the International Space...
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8 hurt in Russia apartment block gas explosion
MOSCOW, Russia – At least 8 people were injured on Sunday, December 20, in a gas explosion that led to the partial collapse of an apartment building in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, Russian...
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Firefighters battle a hundred wildfires in Spain
MADRID, Spain – Spanish firefighters were battling around 100 wildfires in the northwestern Asturias region on Sunday, December 20, where flames fed by strong winds forced the closure of roads and a...
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Delhi gang-rapist freed from youth detention – police
NEW DELHI, India – The youngest convict in an infamous fatal gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi three years ago has been released from a youth correctional facility, Indian police said Sunday. "The...
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Tourist bus crash kills 12 Malaysians in Thailand – tour group
BANGKOK, Thailand – Twelve Malaysian tourists and a Thai were killed Sunday, December 20, in a bus crash in Thailand, a country with some of the world's most dangerous roads, according to information...
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Malaysia's first Islamic-compliant airline takes off
KUALA Lumpur, Malaysia – Malaysia's first Islamic-compliant airline Rayani Air began operations Sunday, December 20, with its maiden flight taking off from the capital to the resort island of Langkawi,...
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Iraq welcomes Turkish withdrawal announcement
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Baghdad on Sunday, December 20, welcomed Turkey's move to pull troops out of northern Iraq but said it would keep up efforts at the United Nations to achieve a full withdrawal."What has...
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Syria regime, Russia making 'extensive' use of cluster munition – HRW
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Human Rights Watch charged Sunday, December 20, that Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have been making "extensive" use of cluster munitions against rebel groups since...
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