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Mainly Tuareg rebels have lost ground to Malian army offensive that in mid-November led to recapture of northeast city of Kidal
Former prison official sentenced over mass executions in Iran in 1988
Samira Sabzian, believed to have been in her late 20s or early 30s and in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn, despite an international campaign for clemency
He was convicted of possession of records containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism
The New Shepard suborbital rocket blasted off from the pad at Launch Site One, near Van Horn, Texas, at 10:42 a.m.
North Korea on Monday test-fired its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile with the potential to reach the United States
The drawdown comes despite United Nations concern about violence in the eastern part of the country
On Dec. 13, a man stunned lawmakers when he jumped from an overhead visitor's gallery onto the floor of the lower house of parliament and released yellow smoke from a canister.
Soldiers from both countries face off at the JSA north of Seoul, which is overseen by the U.S.-led United Nations Command.
The eruption appears to have occurred about 4 kilometers from the town of Grindavik.
The vote comes at a time of widespread disillusionment among the country's 43 million inhabitants.
Gerco van Deventer, 48, was kidnapped in Libya on November 3, 2017, on his way to a power plant construction site.
The violence occurred in the town of Salvatierra, reportedly at a ranch that can be rented out for festivities; another 12 people were injured
The vote will likely prolong his rule until at least 2030 and give him the possibility to stay in the Kremlin until 2036
Congressional negotiators worked deep into the weekend in a bid to craft an urgent deal linking aid to Ukraine and Israel to new US-Mexico border security
The scheme is one of the casualties of a budget crisis caused by a shock constitutional court ruling in November that upended the government's spending plans
The mother Umm Maher Abu Daqqa of the deceased accused Israel of targeting journalists
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched a series of drone and missile strikes targeting Israel since Hamas militants attacked Israel in October
Twenty-one runners died in extreme weather conditions
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