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[Newsmaker] Israel sets up east Jerusalem checkpoints as violence spikes
[Newsmaker] Israel sets up east Jerusalem checkpoints as violence spikes

JERUSALEM ― Israel set up checkpoints Wednesday in Palestinian neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and mobilized hundreds of soldiers as it struggled to stop …

Iran broadcasts footage of underground missile base

Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said …

International children’s prize to Cambodian activist

Cambodian activist Phymean Noun has been awarded the $50,000 World’s Children’s Prize for helping children who live in garbage dumps in …

British Ebola nurse now ‘critically ill’: hospital

A British nurse who was successfully treated in January after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone is now “critically ill” due to a resurgence of the …

Missile exploded by cockpit, broke off front

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The latest news on the report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine last year. All times local. 1:45 …

Nobel Economics winner Deaton top expert on poverty, inequality
Nobel Economics winner Deaton top expert on poverty, inequality

STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Angus Deaton, a British-U.S. professor at Princeton University, won the Nobel Economics Prize Monday for groundbreaking work on poverty …

US-British consumption expert Angus Deaton wins Nobel Economics Prize
US-British consumption expert Angus Deaton wins Nobel Economics Prize

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Angus Deaton of Britain and the United States won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for his work on consumption, poverty and …

[NEWSMAKER] Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize
[NEWSMAKER] Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO (AFP) ― Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping rescue the only democracy that emerged from the Arab Spring, in a hugely …

Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize
Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize

A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. The Norwegian Nobel …

IS seizes villages in Syria

Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has launched a surprise attack in the northern province of Aleppo, seizing a string of villages from rebels. The …

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