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Many dead in air strikes on IS-held village near Turkey border - monitor 05 Oct 2016 - 10:48 am
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Iraq summons Turkey ambassador over military presence 05 Oct 2016 - 10:28 am
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Turkish soldier killed, 3 injured in Syria: report 05 Oct 2016 - 10:19 am
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About 4,655 migrants saved, 28 bodies found in rescues off Italy 05 Oct 2016 - 09:28 am
A child cries as migrants are being rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. AFP / ARIS MESSINIS
UAE says Houthi attack on ship in shipping lane was "act of terrorism" 05 Oct 2016 - 08:27 am
A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan. (Reuters/File photo)
Pence takes harder line on "small and bullying leader" of Russia at VP debate 05 Oct 2016 - 08:02 am
Republican US vice presidential nominee Governor Mike Pence speaks during his debate against Democratic US vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine (not shown) at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, US, October 4, 2016. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Powerful typhoon Chaba barrels toward Japan 05 Oct 2016 - 07:50 am
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Kaine, Pence clash in vice presidential debate 05 Oct 2016 - 06:51 am
Democratic US vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine (L) and Republican US vice presidential nominee Governor Mike Pence debate during their vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, US, October 4, 2016. Reuters/Jonathan
Man who brandished gun near White House sentenced to house arrest 04 Oct 2016 - 08:04 pm
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Ten countries host half of world's refugees: report 04 Oct 2016 - 07:03 pm
Syrian refugees wait at a UNHCR distribution centre in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Photo: UNHCR/J. Tanner
Botched Mosul op could send refugee flood: Turkey’s defense minister 04 Oct 2016 - 06:47 pm
Bazgirtha village is seen as Peshmerga commander Colonel Lokman Abubakr speaks to press as Peshmerga forces attack Daesh positions with howitzers at the entrance of the entrance of the Mosul, in Nineveh, Iraq on October 2, 2016. ( Yunus Kele? - Anadolu Ag
Mortars hit Russia's Damascus embassy 04 Oct 2016 - 06:19 pm
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Syria army advances in Aleppo after US drops Russia talks 04 Oct 2016 - 04:49 pm
Syrian regime forces gather at the Kindi Hospital as smoke billows following aistrikes on Aleppo on October 2, 2016. AFP / GEORGE OURFALIAN
Libya govt forces register gains against Islamic State in Sirte 04 Oct 2016 - 03:54 pm
Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government gather outside destroyed buildings they captured from Islamic State militants in neighbourhood Number Three in Sirte, Libya October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Hani Amara
Afghan forces retake Kunduz after Taliban raid 04 Oct 2016 - 03:34 pm
Afghan militia forces sit in a police vehicle amid ongoing fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kunduz on October 4, 2016. AFP / BASHIR KHAN SAFI
Weird science: 3 win Nobel for unusual states of matter 04 Oct 2016 - 03:22 pm
A screen showing pictures of the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics during a news conference by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden October 4, 2016. From left: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz. (TT News
More than 4,000 Syrians return to Jarabulus 04 Oct 2016 - 03:18 pm
Syrians who have returned to the Syrian town of Jarabulus, following its cleansing of Daesh militants as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, do their shopping at a bazaar on October 3, 2016. (Halil Fidan - Anadolu Agency)
Obama, DiCaprio talk about 'race against time' on climate 04 Oct 2016 - 03:07 pm
U.S. President Barack Obama (R), actor Leonardo DiCaprio (L) and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe arrive to discuss the importance of protecting the one planet at South by South Lawn event at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2016. REUTERS