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Who will replace Blatter as FIFA president?
June 3, 2015
Who will replace Blatter as FIFA president?
Now that Sepp Blatter says he will be resigning, the race opens to succeed him as FIFA president. The job has…
Obama signs landmark bill reforming NSA surveillance
June 3, 2015
Obama signs landmark bill reforming NSA surveillance
US President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government…
Pew poll: British support for staying in EU rises to 55 percent
June 3, 2015
Pew poll: British support for staying in EU rises to 55 percent
British support for staying in the European Union has risen to 55 percent, up 9 percentage points from two years…
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
June 2, 2015
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat…
Video: Guantanamo detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse, torture beyond Senate findings
June 2, 2015
Video: Guantanamo detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse, torture beyond Senate findings
The US Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed…
Video: Young Afghans croon in northern city
June 2, 2015
Video: Young Afghans croon in northern city
It is late afternoon and slivers of sunlight stream in through an exhaust fan, cutting through multicolored strobe lights and…
Gunmen attack airport in eastern Congo, seven dead
June 2, 2015
Gunmen attack airport in eastern Congo, seven dead
Gunmen attacked the airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city, Goma, in an overnight raid in which four…
Migrant children fleeing poverty face labour, sex exploitation in Italy
June 2, 2015
Migrant children fleeing poverty face labour, sex exploitation in Italy
In a cavernous market just outside Rome, migrant boys from North Africa shunt trolleys stacked high with crates of melons,…
Report: Rohingya migrants raped at Thai-Malaysia border camps
June 2, 2015
Report: Rohingya migrants raped at Thai-Malaysia border camps
Muslim Rohingya women who were held at human-trafficking camps in Thailand and Malaysia were subjected to gang rapes by their…
Elderly passenger rescued from capsized ship on China’s Yangtze River, others trapped
June 2, 2015
Elderly passenger rescued from capsized ship on China’s Yangtze River, others trapped
Divers pulled an 85-year-old woman from the hull of a passenger ship carrying 458 people that capsized on China's Yangtze…