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British man held over HK murders

BBC Online :A 29-year-old British man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of two women in Hong Kong.Police found the victims in an apartment block in the Wan Chai district...

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters cheer as they leave the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey, towards the Turkey-Syria border, on the way to the Syrian city of Kobani.

Iraqi Kurdish enter Kobane to fight ISIS

AP, Turkey :Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived in a town that’s become a focal point in...

UN bill urges Myanmar to drop identity plan

Al-jazeera.com :A new UN draft resolution takes aim at Myanmar’s aggressive campaign to have its Rohingya Muslims identify as a term they reject, urging “access to full citizenship on an equal basis.”The European Union-drafted...

Burkina Faso crisis Army divided over ruler

BBC Online :A split has emerged within Burkina Faso’s armed forces over who is leading the country following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore after 27 years in power.The presidential guard’s second in command,...

Suicide bomber kills 9 Afghan police

AP, Kabul :An Afghan official says at least nine members of the country’s security forces have been killed in a suicide attack in eastern Logar province.Din Mohammad Darwesh, a spokesman for the provincial governor,...

Libyan military soldiers fire their weapons during clashes with Islamic extremist militias.

Hundreds of Libyans flee Benghazi

Al-jazeera.com :Hundreds of families have fled their homes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi as street fighting raged between rival armed groups in the city.The fresh clashes erupted when the army, backed by...

Canada stops visa for Ebola-hit countries

Al-jazeera.com :Canada has suspended visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with “widespread transmission” of the Ebola virus, becoming the second nation after Australia to introduce such a measure. The countries most severely...