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February trial for teen accused of throwing boy from Tate balcony - 08/08/2019

LONDON (dpa)- A British teenager who allegedly threw a 6-year-old boy from a 10th-floor viewing balcony at London's Tate Modern art gallery is to go on trial next year, a court said Thursday. The...

31 Yezidi families who suffered under Islamic State arrive in France - 08/08/2019

PARIS (dpa)- Thirty-one Yezidi women and their children who were victims of the Islamic State extremist group have arrived as refugees in France, French authorities said on Thursday. They are the...

Trump to visit El Paso, Dayton after mass shootings - 08/07/2019

WASHINGTON (dpa)- US President Donald Trump will visit El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday after mass shootings in those cities left 31 people dead. Vice President Mike Pence confirmed the...

New test is first in US to help detect new STD threat - 08/04/2019

SAN DIEGO (tca/dpa)- It is hard to get much of a reputation if nobody knows you're around, and that has definitely been the case for mycoplasma genitalium, the tiny bacteria estimated to be more...

Hezbollah Arrests Them, and the Regime Executes Them - 08/02/2019

The military court in Damascus issued death sentences against 15 people, including defectors from the regime’s forces on charges of “treason” reports Al-Modon.   A military source told Al-Modon...

Family: Italian priest missing in Syria since 2013 may still be alive - 07/30/2019

ROME, Alvise Armellini (dpa)- An Italian Catholic priest may still be alive six years after he went missing in Syria, his family said on Monday. Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, a Jesuit missionary who was...

UN: More than 12,000 children killed or maimed in conflicts in 2018 - 07/30/2019

New York - More than 12,000 children were killed or maimed in armed conflicts in 2018, according to a report from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres released on Tuesday.   The UN also...

Blimp to scan waters between Greece, Turkey for migrants - 07/29/2019

ATHENS (dpa)- The Greek coastguard and European border-management agency Frontex will deploy a crewless airship to monitor the narrow strait that separates the Greek island of Samos and the Turkish...

Airstrikes on Syria's rebel enclave kill 15 civilians - 07/28/2019

CAIRO, Ramadan Al-Fatash (dpa)- At least 15 civilians were killed on Saturday in airstrikes by the Syrian government and allied Russians on a rebel enclave, a war monitor reported. The deadliest of...

'No place is safe:' Displaced Syrians in Idlib are out of options - 07/26/2019

BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa)– Abu Zuheir, a blind man with a family of 12, is among more than 400,000 people displaced in north-western Syria since a government offensive that started in April. Idlib...
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