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Cuba's Fidel Castro makes public appearance for 90th birthday - 08/14/2016

HAVANA, CUBA- Cuba's Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance for his 90th birthday Saturday, alongside his brother and successor, Raul, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a live broadcast on...

12 newborns dead in Baghdad hospital blaze - 08/11/2016

BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Khalil al-Murshidi- A fire in the maternity ward of one of Baghdad's main hospitals Wednesday killed 12 premature babies, prompting Iraq's health minister to announce her resignation....

Egypt bids farewell to Nobel prize-winning chemist - 08/09/2016

CAIRO, EGYPT- Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail was given a state funeral with military honours on Sunday in Cairo attended by Egypt's president and top officials. Zewail,...

Last journalists bid farewell to London's Fleet Street - 08/07/2016

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Robin Millard- The last two reporters working on Fleet Street filed their final stories on Friday, ending more than 300 years of journalism on the London thoroughfare...

Priest murdered in French church attack: what we know so far - 07/27/2016

PARIS, FRANCE, Pauline Froissart- An elderly priest had his throat slit in a church in northern France on Tuesday after two men stormed the building and took hostages. The attack in the Normandy town...

Moscow Brings Its Propaganda War to the United States - 07/26/2016

From Ukraine to Germany, Russia has been meddling with elections for years. Now it’s trying to destroy Hillary.   By breaching the servers of the Democratic National Committee and posting nearly...

Yahoo appears near deal to sell core assets - 07/25/2016

SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES, Sophie Estienne- Yahoo was set to announced a deal to sell its core online assets, ending a 20-year run as an independent company for the internet pioneer. Multiple...

Munich gunman 'obsessed' with mass killings - 07/23/2016

MUNICH, GERMANY, Simon MORGAN and Valerie LEROUX- The teenager who shot dead nine people in a gun rampage in Munich was "obsessed" with mass killers like Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring...

What it was like covering Turkey's failed coup - 07/21/2016

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Istanbul-based AFP photographers Bulent Kilic and Ozan Kose had close calls during the long night they spent on the streets of Istanbul capturing Turkey's failed coup on Friday...

'Ghostbuster' Leslie Jones quits Twitter over racist abuse - 07/20/2016

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones says she has left Twitter because of "sickening" cyberbullies who were racially abusing her on the social network. Jones, who is African...
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