Archive for the January 11, 2016
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After months of in-fighting, Catalonia's separatists were set to vote in a new regional president Sunday, paving the way for a government that aims to declare independence from Spain by next year. The fate of
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A United flight en route to Denver from Anchorage, Alaska, was diverted on Saturday to Vancouver where a suspect was arrested due to "security concerns," authorities said. United Air Lines Flight 1104 landed safely at
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An Iraqi drone strike killed nine members of the pro-government Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force near Tikrit in an apparent case of so-called "friendly fire", a spokesman said Sunday. Ahmed al-Assadi, spokesman for the Hashed al-Shaabi
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Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that new US visa regulations amounted to "harassment" and reciprocal steps would be taken if the plans are implemented. The rules, approved by Congress last month, would bar people from
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An airport near Stockholm was evacuated and departing flights suspended for several hours on Sunday after staff found a suspicious powder in a bag that had been checked in for a flight, officials said. Police
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A man from the United Arab Emirates was sentenced to death in absentia on Sunday for joining Islamic State, local media reported. Local newspapers did not identify the man sentenced by the Abu Dhabi court.
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Saudi authorities on Sunday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of murdering a Saudi female with an axe, the 50th death sentence carried out in the kingdom this year, the interior ministry said. Jinat Farid was
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Two Ukrainian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in eastern Ukraine, marking the first deaths this year in the war-torn region, Kiev and breakway officials said Sunday in separate tolls. "Over the last day,
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A bus carrying amateur football players and fans careened into a river in eastern Mexico on Sunday, leaving at least eight people dead and 30 injured, authorities said. The bus fell into the Atoyac River
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Aid agency Doctors Without Borders condemned a missile strike on one of its clinics Sunday in northern Yemen, saying it had killed at least four people and wounded 10 others. Three MSF staff members are
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