Women's rights activists in Afghanistan have reacted angrily to an appeals court's decision in Afghanistan to quash death sentences imposed on four men involved in the mob-killing of the young woman Farkhunda in Kabul in March. Here's David Loyn. 阿富
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The Pentagon has described the Taliban seizure of the northern Afghan city of Condu on Monday as a setback, but says it's confident that Afghan military can retake it. The US defense spokesman Pedicoca says a counter offensive was under way. We stron
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A top Honduran businessman and a four time presidential candidate Jaime Rolando Rosenthal has been charged in the United States with drug trafficking and money laundering. Leonardo Russia has more. The US treasury department said the three men made i
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The United Nation's envoy to Libya has just announced that warring factions have reached an agreement to form a national unity government,the deal was announced by the UN envoy Bernardino Leno at a news conference in Skhirat, Morocco. After a year of
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The United States says Russia has agreed to resume talks to ensure the two countries forces dont clash during bowing campaigns over Syria. The announcement came at the US so-viewed that it was overhauling its approach to fight Islamic State militants
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The Russian president Vladimir Putin has strongly defended his country's military operations in Syria, saying the aim is to stabilize what he called the legitimate authorities there and he created the conditions for political compromise. He said with
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American military transport aircraft have dropped more than 100 pallets of supplies, including ammunition, grenades and rockets to Syrian rebels fighting against the Islamic State group. Our Washington correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, says it's a firs
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Five contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States have been holding their first debate ahead of next year's race for the White House. The frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, and the independent senator, Bernie Sanders, were in
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Presiden Obama has announced an extension to the US military presence in Afghanistan, reversing an election pledge to end America's longest war. Close to 10,000 troops are to remain in the country for much of next year, with that number halving by th
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Slovenia has warned that it cannot accept unlimited numbers of migrants raising concerns of a backlock in neighboring countries. Thousands of migrants have been diverted through Croatia to Slovenia after Hungary closed its border to them. Gideon Long
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A new stusy study has found the Ebola virus can linger in male survivors for at least ninemonths, much longer than previously thought. As our Global Health correspondent TulipMazumdar explains. 93 men gave semen samples in Sierra Leone. The virus was
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The US and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding to minimize the risk of theiraircraft coming into accidental contact in the skies above Syria. It comes after severalinstances in which the US accused Russia of unsafe and unprofessional con
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American defense officials have insisted that a raid by US and Kurdish forces on a prison runby Islamic State militants in Northern Iraq is not a change of tactics. About 70 hostages werefreed. From Washington, here's Gary O'Donoghue. The press secre
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Hillary Clinton has spent 11 hours answering questions put by a Republican dominated congressional committee investigating a deadly attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012. Mrs. Clinton, the frontrunner for the democratic presidentia
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Poland's Conservative Law and Justice Party has won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections following a campaign in which it took a tough line towards the European Union and migrants. An exit poll suggests it has secured 39% of the vote. The pa
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European Union leaders meeting in Brussels say they've agreed a broad actionplan with Turkey to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe. The president ofEuropean Commission Jean Claude Juncker says there was now an explicit linkbeing created between
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The US military says coalition air strikes in Syriaand Iraq have killed two Islamic State commanders linked to the attacks inParis in November, as well as eight other senior IS figures. Laura Bickerreports from Washington. The operation to degrade an
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The trading on Chinas stock market has have been suspended for the second day this week after prices plunged by more than 7%. And automatic shut down was triggered less than hour after business opened. Steve Evens reports from Beijing. After the cras
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The UN Security Council has agreed to start work immediately on drawing up newsanctions against North Korea following its claim to have tested a hydrogenbomb. There is skepticism that Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, the fourth in adecade, was powerf
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North Korea has said that it has for the first time successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was made on state television. It came hours after a tremor with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected near a known nuclear test site in the northeast
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