Fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and the Myanmar army has intensified, causing increased hardship and fear at camps set up to shelter civilians fleeing the fighting, reports said Sunday. The Myanmar Times quoted rebel sources

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This month's rocket launch by reclusive North Korea shows it has likely developed the technology, long suspected in the West, to fire a warhead more than 10,000 km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials said on

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Western sanctions on Iran's shipping and energy sectors caused serious problems for its oil industry earlier this year but Iran has mostly overcome those challenges, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Sunday.

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Italian caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Sunday he would be ready to run for a second term in next year's election if he was asked to do so by political forces that adopted

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Britain in a Sunday newspaper interview against "blackmailing" its EU partners in a bid to bring powers back home from Brussels. "We want to keep Britain in the EU

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One person was killed Saturday after a plane en route from Winnipeg to Nunavut in northern Canada crashed, CBC News reported. The Perimeter Aviation plane carrying seven passengers and two crew crashed less than a

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A 65-year-old man thought to be sleeping while sitting upright on a Berlin underground train as it cross-crossed the German capital was actually dead, police said on Sunday. "It's tragic," a Berlin police spokeswoman said.

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Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for a month undergoing treatment for bronchitis, may not be released from a Houston hospital in time to celebrate Christmas at home as doctors had hoped.

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The United Arab Emirates urged citizens not to travel to Lebanon, a popular New Year holiday destination for Gulf Arabs, after Syria's civil war fanned sectarian clashes in north Lebanon. The Gulf Arab state issued

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A mentally-sick mother slaughtered her six-year-old daughter and burnt her dead body in Landhi area of the city. According to police sources, a woman, Amber, slaughtered her six-year-old daughter, Uroosh. Her husband Aamir told that

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