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At least 25 killed in Rio de Janeiro favela gun battle

At least 25 people were killed and four others injured following an intense shootout between police and suspected drug traffickers in a favela in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, local police sai

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Gunmen abduct students in Nigerian school: report

Scores of students were abducted by gunmen who stormed an all-girl school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara on early Friday, Xinhua reported citing a local official. Source(s): Xinhua News

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Bomb explosion rocks hotel in Somali capital

A suspected suicide car bomb explosion occurred near a popular hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Sunday.Police say al-Shabab group stormed the hotel but that most of the peo

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U.S. House convenes to debate second impeachment of Trump

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday convened to debate a second impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, charging him of inciting an insurrection against the American governm

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Gunmen attack school in northern Nigeria: police

A group of unidentified gunmen attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina, local police said on Saturday.The attackers on motorcycles stormed a school which is located on the

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16 including 12 militants killed in Afghanistan's central province

A total of 16 people including 12 militants and four policemen have been killed as clash erupted in Pato district of the relatively peaceful central Daikundi province in Afghanistan on Sunday, deputy

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Iran's female MP dies of COVID-19 as death toll surges

Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported that Fatemeh Rahbar, a newly elected member of the Iranian Parliament, died from the novel coronavirus on Friday. Rahbar, 56, was one

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Hashd Shaabi leader killed in bomb attack in Iraq

Protesters set fire to a guard room outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Dec. 31, 2019. Hundreds of demonstrators, participating in mourning for the Hashd Shaabi members killed by U.S. attac

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Urgent: Pentagon says sending 750 U.S. troops to Middle East after embassy storming in Baghdad

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on Tuesday that the United States will deploy about 750 troops immediately to the Middle East, a move taken hours after demonstrators stormed the U.S. embass