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Iraqi pro-government forces on Saturday broke the siege of the country’s main oil refinery, where security forces had held out for months against the Islamic State jihadist group, officials said.“Iraqi forces… reached the gate of the refinery,” the governor of

India’s government has promised to increase compensation for Bhopal gas disaster victims as the 30th anniversary of the tragedy looms, Amnesty International said Saturday.The pledge was given by India’s chemicals minister Ananth Kumar late Friday in New Delhi to demonstrators

Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies on Saturday vowed to do all they can to “extinguish” the deadly Ebola outbreak in west Africa.“G20 members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the

Okinawa’s voters will deliver their verdict Sunday on a decision to press ahead with the long-stalled relocation of a US military base, in an election Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to win.Opinion polls by local media show a slight

Togo, which is coordinating the fight against West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak, says the international community “cannot relax efforts” to combat the disease, Social Action Minister Dede Ahoefa Ekoue told AFP.Speaking ahead of the G20 summit in Australia, Ekoue said

US satirist Jon Stewart’s directorial debut “Rosewater” is based on the true story of a western journalist imprisoned in Iran — and raises real questions about the nature of torture.At least that’s the opinion of Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal,

Serbian nationalist firebrand Vojislav Seselj is spearheading an anti-government rally on Saturday but as he fights cancer and awaits judgement on war crimes charges he is as beleaguered as his once formidable party.His fit appearance and jovial manner during a

Gordon Strachan hailed his Scotland side after they edged a pulsating Euro 2016 duel with the Republic of Ireland in Glasgow.The match was played at a frantic pace with careless challenges resulting in early bookings for Grant Hanley, Aiden McGeady

LeBron James delivered his best game since returning to Cleveland, and the Cavaliers have a winning record for the first time this season with a come-from-behind 122-121 win over Boston.James exploded for 41 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter,

A huge whale was stranded Friday on a white sand beach on Nicaragua’s southern Pacific coast, despite efforts by dozens of tourists and residents to get it back to sea. The whale, estimated at 18 meters (59 feet) long, beached