Retaking Mount Sinjar from ISIS
Months after losing ground to ISIS extremists, Kurdish fighters make headway in reclaiming the mountain and towns on the Iraqi/Syrian border
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Russia's central bank to help companies meet debts
Seeking to stabilize the ruble, Russian authorities are offering low-interest loans to struggling businesses and banks
"Nut rage" airline exec faces arrest in South Korea
Cho Hyun-ah forced a flight to return to the gate and kicked a flight attendant off the plane over a bag of macadamia nuts
Israel fires on Gaza over sniper attack
Hamas confirms one of its members was killed after Israeli military tank fire deployed in response to sniper attack on soldiers
Jordan confirms warplane crashed, ISIS captured pilot
Pilot becomes first foreign military member to fall into extremists' hands since an international coalition launched its bombing campaign
Was FBI wrong on North Korea?
A cybersecurity firm's data suggests a Sony insider was key in pulling off the hack
Putin touts new alliance with 4 ex-Soviet nations
Eurasian Economic Union celebrated as Russian ruble collapses and Ukraine takes possible step towards joining NATO
Luka Magnotta guilty of first-degree murder
Luka Magnotta, a Canadian man, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2012 slaying of Jun Lin after eight days of jury deliberations
Pigeon worth $184,000 stolen in Germany
Police suspect thieves were "connoisseurs" as it was the most valuable in an aviary full of other homing pigeons
U.N. shines light on N. Korea's human rights
Report says starving prisoners pick through cow excrement for food and those caught trying to flee are brutally executed
France denies links among 3 attacks but raises security
After rampages by drivers who plowed into holiday crowds, prime minister laments "the ravages of propaganda on fragile minds"
44 journalists murdered in 2014, report says
An "unusually high proportion" of journalists killed were international reporters, the Committee to Protect Journalists says
Revisiting the Indonesian Tsunami
Photographers returns to photograph scenes of the Indian Ocean tsunami 10 years later
U.S. helped get imprisoned Cuban spy's wife pregnant
As Cuba celebrated the return of three spies, puzzling news emerged that one spy's wife was expecting a kid in two weeks
Was U.S. involved in North Korea Internet outage?
A tiny, elite fraction of North Korea's 25 million people have online access, so the recent Internet outage looks curious
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