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Former US President Bush, wife hospitalized 19 Jan 2017 - 11:29 am
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Colombia, ELN rebels to begin peace talks 19 Jan 2017 - 11:24 am
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Turkish PM warns Japan on terrorist FETO structuring 19 Jan 2017 - 11:22 am
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Putin, Merkel, Hollande discuss situation in Ukraine 19 Jan 2017 - 11:20 am
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Al-Shabaab militants kill Ugandan soldier 19 Jan 2017 - 11:17 am
A man in Nairobi, Kenya, watches a video released by Somali militant group al-Shabab showing a Ugandan soldier moments before he was executed, on January 18. Al-Shabab said it captured the soldier in September 2015 during an attack on an African Union bas
Gambia's president-elect to be sworn in on Gambian soil 19 Jan 2017 - 11:12 am
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UN Libya envoy’s plane turned back from Tobruk airport 19 Jan 2017 - 11:10 am
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Turkey, Russia carry out first joint air op in Syria 19 Jan 2017 - 10:57 am
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IS attack in Iraq’s Tikrit leaves 9 policemen dead 19 Jan 2017 - 10:31 am
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Congo commemorates death of former PM, Patrice Lumumba 19 Jan 2017 - 10:28 am
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Eyes turned to Assange as US commutes Manning sentence 19 Jan 2017 - 10:25 am
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1 dead, four injured in Mexican school shooting 19 Jan 2017 - 10:18 am
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India school bus crash kills at least 15 children 19 Jan 2017 - 09:51 am
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Lebanon gets a new government, now it needs a new economy 19 Jan 2017 - 09:01 am
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri (L) attend the first meeting of the new cabinet at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Growing list of Democrats boycotting Trump inauguration 18 Jan 2017 - 09:20 pm
Preparations are finalized on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, where Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as America's 45th president, in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
Pennsylvania prosecutor probing truck with anti-MLK imagery 18 Jan 2017 - 09:20 pm
People gather to march in the annual parade down MLK Boulevard to honor Martin Luther King, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Billy Weeks
“Wait and see” no longer an option for disaster response: IFRC chief 18 Jan 2017 - 08:52 pm
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New drought strikes millions in Ethiopia, still reeling from El Nino 18 Jan 2017 - 08:46 pm
Ethiopia’s latest rain failure has mainly hit southern livestock-herding communities, unlike last year when hunger was worst in the north and west. (AFP / Joel Robine)

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Qatar Central Bank announces the acceptance of “Himyan” and “mada” cards in Qatar and Saudi Arabia