Saturday's Top 50 World News & Stories
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Photos of the Africans who have gone to work and study in Brazil
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US Secretary of State John Kerry holds fresh talks with the two candidates of the Afghan presidential vote who accuse each other of electoral fraud.
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Gas explosion in building in Istanbul injures at least 3 people
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Do you know your gurkentruppe from your bananenflanken? CNN can help.
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The U.S. Navy maintains grounding order for F-35 fighter jets, threatening their appearance at two key trade shows.
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European Union names 2 Russian spin doctors as latest Ukraine sanctions targets
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Melbourne-native Robert Cerantonio accused of recruiting fighters as government lists Isis as terrorist organisation Continue reading...
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Punk rock fuel-injected the beat of rock and roll in the mid-1970s with a frenetic tempo. On Friday, the drummer who gunned out those rhythms with pioneering punk band The Ramones passed away.
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Singapore minister backs decision to destroy books featuring gay and lesbian lifestyle
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The secret police that ran its own football team
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Coach abuse can derail morals, while ethical leadership builds morale.
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Chinese e-commerce company's board can be expanded to 11 members after Alibaba's New York IPO this year.
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The Israeli military's statement Saturday said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad “systematically use mosques to conceal weaponry and establish underground tunnel networks."
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His clothes are traditional -- but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's taste in wrist-wear is more 21st century.
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The Islamist militia has consolidated its gains in eastern Syria, say officials, creating a potential base of operations for terrorists.
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LeBron James will play again for the Cleveland Cavaliers after opting out of the final two years of his Miami Heat contract.
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Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip continue to trade fire after Israel vows to press on with its offensive to stop rocket attacks.
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RABAT (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and 57 injured on Friday when three buildings collapsed in Casablanca, Morocco's biggest city, the state news agency MAP reported.
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We thought you'd get a kick out of seeing how the four teams in the final World Cup matches stack up in global health and development.
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For the third time in five years, Israel has bombed Gaza in response to Hamas rocket fire. As Israel considers a ground invasion, Israelis note the grisly repetition, skeptical things will change.
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It's seven in the morning on the beach in Santa Monica, California. The low sun glints off the waves and the clouds are still golden from the dawn. The view stretches out over thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean. In the distance, white v...
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Boiling, disappearing, Pepto-Bismol pink: The water's anything but fine at these strange lakes from Trinidad to Thailand.
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It's nearly 200 years old, and people still come back for more.
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Vials of smallpox virus discovered in a closet are reminders of humanity's one and only victory over a deadly scourge.
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GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel pounded Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday for a fifth day, killing nine people including two disabled women according to medics, and showed no sign of pausing despite international pres...
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Palestinian mosque hit and two people at charity for disabled reported to be among latest victims of Operation Protective Edge Continue reading...
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Israel's missile defense system is more than a military asset. It counters political risk, says research fellow.
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The current violence between the Israeli military and militants in Gaza is the latest in a long history of fighting in the region. Here's a look at some events along the way.
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KANDAHAR Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eight civilians including five women were killed when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, local officials said on Saturday.
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CNN's Barbara Starr reports that Israel and Hamas are using social media to fire cyber-salvos at each other.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion near a tram stop in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul injured several people on Saturday, local media said.
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On GPS, Bret Stephens says big ideas for solutions to the conflict have been "well-explored" with no success.
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Israel is fighting to block rockets from striking its major population centers, deploying its Iron Dome missile defense system to intercept them.
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At least 10 die in separate blasts as US secretary of state tries to resolve crisis surrounding Ghani-Abdullah election standoff Continue reading...
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At least 121 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during recent hostilities, say Gaza health officials. Hundreds of rockets have also been fired into Israel by militants.
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Rosemary Murphy, an Emmy Award-winning actress, has died. She was 89.
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As the World Cup draws to a close, football fans in Lebanon have been enjoying the action - despite the fact that their country has not been involved in the tournament.
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Tommy Ramone, the drummer and last surviving original member of influential US punk band The Ramones, has died aged 62, the group announces.
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The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, says his forces will find and destroy pro-Russian separatists who killed more than 20 Ukrainian troops in the east of the country.
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US secretary of state holds another round of meetings with rival presidential candidates, pushing for UN audit of votes.
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Ronald Lee Haskell appeared in court for the first time on Friday on capital murder charges. Investigators are still looking into his troubled past.
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At least 121 Palestinians killed by five days of bombardment as Israel brushes off pressure for ceasefire.
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3 persons injured, no one gored, in slippery 6th running of the bulls in Pamplona
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At least two of the vials employees at the National Institutes of Health found in an unused storage room earlier this month contain viable samples of the deadly smallpox virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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The former Archbishop of Canterbury says he will back a bid to make it legal for terminally ill people in England and Wales to get help to end their lives.
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Plastic Surgery; Ocean Rescues; LeBron James Returns to Cleveland
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United plane diverted, Willie Nelson number 1 again.
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When Raju the elephant cried after his rescue from abuse, his story touched a global nerve.
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Bulgaria's Speaker of Parliament Mihail Mikov blamed the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) and Parliament for the crisis with the Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB). Mikov told Darik radio that the BNB reaction was slow, while Parliament was to...
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Amnesty International (AI) has urged the UN to urgently mandate an independent international investigation into Israeli airstrikes on Gaza as well as Palestine’s indiscriminate shelling of Israel, and hold accountable those responsible f...
