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April 17th, 2014

Nigeria Fears Captive Girls Will Be Held as Sex Slaves Iran Gets an Unlikely Visitor, an American Plane, but No One Seems to Know Why
UN Security Council Meets on Rights in North Korea Thugs With Machetes Attack Nigerian Party Congress
Flier Calling on Donetsk Jews to Register Now Widely Seen as Fake Marines Pull Out of Afghanistan's Nimroz Province
Syrian Rebels Warn of Potential Homs Massacre as Regime Troops Advance Gunmen Kidnap Tunisian Diplomat in Libya
US Reiterates Deep Commitment to Friendship With Bahrain Iran Ahead of Schedule in Complying With Nuclear Deal, UN Watchdog Says
US Special Forces Struggle With Record Suicides: Admiral Sen. Ayotte: Russia Talks Shouldn't Delay Sanctions
In Syria, Rebel Attacks in the North Reflect a Number of Important Changes French Troops Free Five Aid Workers Kidnapped in Mali
Saudi Spy Chief Ousted Under US Pressure: Experts Palestinians Rally for Prisoners as Peace Talks Falter
South Sudan Army Battles Rebels in Key Oil-State MPs Criticise British Military Over Fatal Taliban Attack
Germany Has No Alternative to Russian Gas Gunmen Attack Iraq Military Base, Kill 10 Soldiers
South Sudan Conflict: Attack on UN Base 'Kills Dozens' 9/11 Military Court Adjourns Trial Until June Amid FBI Spying Probe
Putin Tells Edward Snowden: Russia Doesn't Carry Out Mass Surveillance Israel Releases Five Lebanese Seized in Cross-Border Raid
Violent Clashes Between Israeli Troops and Palestinians Break Out in Hebron US Releases $450 Million of Frozen Iranian Funds, Citing Compliance to Nuclear Deal
Palestinian Authority: Holding Our People in Israeli Jails Is a War Crime Fighting in Syria Has Changed Hezbollah's Tactics
McConnell Rips Obama Foreign Policy, Would Send Arms to Ukrainian Army Hagel: US Forces to Stay in Poland Until End of 2014
Curious About Palestine, Israeli Visitors Return One Syrian Killed by Turkish Security Forces at Border
Syria Raises Gasoline Price by 20 Pct to Relieve Subsidy Burden Lebanon Says Israel Kidnaps 5 Citizens
Palestinians Not to Get Back to Violence if Peace Talks Fail: Official Suspected Rebel Attack Kills 7 in Syria's Aleppo
Kenya Sends 91 Somalis to Mogadishu Amid Crackdown Ukraine Local Boss Puts Price on Head of Russian 'Saboteurs'
Suspected Mass Grave to Be Excavated in Serbia Ukraine OKs Intl Court, May Probe Kiev Deaths
Taliban Kill 4 Afghan Policemen South of Kabul S. Sudan: 12 Die After Mob Attacks UN Base
Turkish Parliament Approves Law Expanding Secret Services Palestinians Rally for Prisoners as Peace Talks Falter
Cut Off From the World, Gazans Consumed by Poverty Obama Says US Military 'Superior' to Putin's Russian Forces
Canada Sending Jets to Eastern Europe in Response to Ukraine Crisis Joint Statement Underscores US-Russia Divide on Ukraine
Chinese Police Shoot Man Dead at Checkpoint in Xinjiang Putin Says Kiev's Use of Army Against Separatists a 'Grave Crime'
Putin Says Ukraine's Decision to Disbanded Berkut Police Will Backfire Putin Says Kiev Must Seek Compromise With Separatists
Putin Says to Speed Up Process of Switching Crimea to Ruble Ukraine Is Holding About 10 Suspected Russian Intelligence Agents: State Security
Moldovan Breakaway Region Should Be Allowed to Choose Fate: Putin Saudi Conservatives Protest Against Westernization
Putin Says Impossible for Europe to Stop Buying Russian Gas Russia's Putin Acknowledges Impact From Sanctions
Reporters Charged With Defamation Remanded on Bail in Thailand Nigeria Local Authorities Say Most of Abducted Schoolgirls Still Missing
Taliban Negotiator Under House Arrest in Uae, Says Afghanistan NATO Denies Putin's Allegation Rasmussen Secretly Taped Conversation
Students Give Easter Twist to Dwindling Venezuela Protests German Court Sentences Somali Pirate to 12 Years for Kidnapping
Syria Negotiator Says Homs Once Again a 'Theater of Death' NATO Says Sending Ships to Baltic to Bolster Defense of East European Allies
Runaway Spy Snowden Is Surprise Guest on Putin Phone-In Saudi Activist Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail for Protests: Lawyer
Russia's South Stream Pipeline Splits EU Energy Policy Jordanian Jihadis Returning From Syria War Rattle Us-Aligned Kingdom
Syria Submits More 'Detailed' List of Chemical Weapons Fate of Girls Abducted in Nigeria Now Uncertain
Algerians Vote on Bouteflika's Re-Election Bid Australia Disciplines Captains for Indonesia Incursions
Ukraine Crisis Deepens as Putin Invokes 'Right' to Invade Putin Vows Not to Push Russia Behind Soviet-Style Iron Curtain
Putin Admits Russian Troops Were in Crimea Before Vote Russia Economy Worsens Even Before Sanctions Hit
Ukrainian Forces Kill Three Protesters, Wound 13 in Mariupol Email Provider Loses Appeal Over Encryption Keys
Former Iran Official Describes Alleged US Sabotage of Nuke Program EU Agrees to Putin's Call for Gas Security Talks
Taliban-Govt Mediator Says Efforts on to Extend Ceasefire Gunmen Attack Iraq Military Base, Kill 10 Soldiers
India Passes Halfway Mark in Election With Hindu Nationalists Gaining Strength Ukraine Bans Entry for All Russian Males Aged 16-60
Boko Haram: a Bloody Insurgency, a Growing Challenge Nigerian Military Lied by Saying Abducted Girls Freed, Families Say
Egypt's Military Economy: Money Is Power, Power Is Money Israel Arrests Arab Journalist Over Lebanon Visit
Putin Tells Snowden Russia Doesn't Collect Citizens' Data Russia Dismisses 'Nonsense' Claims of Fomenting Ukraine Unrest
IAEA: Iran Has Cut Higher-Enriched Uranium Stock 'By Half' Putin Says Annexation of Crimea Partly a Response to NATO Enlargement
Putin Says Trust Lost in Ties With US Before Ukraine Crisis

April 16th, 2014

Despite Doubts, Japan Prepares End to Ban on Defending Allies Syria Conflict: a Shift for Fading Insurgency
Anbar Gov't Compound Targeted; 104 Killed, 95 Wounded Across Iraq
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