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Iraq: Islamic State driven out of key border town

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has seized most of the town of Tel Abyad from Islamic State militants.
Magna Carta: Justin Welby joins the Queen, David Cameron to mark historic anniversary

Queen Elizabeth led celebrations on Monday to mark 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta.
$Islamic State teenager said to be UK\'s youngest suicide bomber$
Islamic State teenager said to be UK's youngest suicide bomber

A 17-year-old who left northern England to join Islamic State was reported to have become Britain's youngest suicide bomber when he blew himself up in a car in northern Iraq.
$David Cameron on Magna Carta: Reputation of human rights \'distorted and devalued\' in Britain$
David Cameron on Magna Carta: Reputation of human rights 'distorted and devalued' in Britain

Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday that the principles of liberty, justice and democracy enshrined in the Magna Carta underpin his plan to overhaul human rights laws.
Sudan president Omar al-Bashir barred from leaving South Africa

A South African judge barred Sudan's indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country bias in the International Criminal Court.
$Senior Islamist militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar \'killed\' in US air strike in Libya$
Senior Islamist militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar 'killed' in US air strike in Libya

A veteran Islamist militant, blamed for masterminding an Algerian gas field attack and running smuggling routes across North Africa, has been killed in a US air strike inside Libya, Libya's recognised government said on Sunday.
Aid-dependent Nepal says needs $6.6 billion for post-quake rebuilding

Earthquake-battered Nepal will ask international donors to support a reconstruction plans that is expected to cost $6.6 billion over five years, the government said on Saturday.
$WHO calls emergency meeting on \'large, complex\' South Korea MERS outbreak$
WHO calls emergency meeting on 'large, complex' South Korea MERS outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday it would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to consider South Korea's outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which it described as "large and complex".
Crackdowns on human rights in Central Asia breed extremism says Ban Ki-moon

Continued crackdowns on human rights in Central Asia could backfire by encouraging extremist ideologies, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday, winding up a visit to the volatile former Soviet region.
Egypt opens border crossing with Gaza - a sign of easing tension?

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip for the first time in three months.
Tennessee: 16 injured in church bus crash on mission trip

A church bus left the road and smashed into a drain culvert in southeastern Tennessee on Friday.
Queen Elizabeth to return to Runnymede, where Magna Carta sealed 800 years ago

Queen Elizabeth will return on Monday to the setting where 800 years ago one of her predecessors accepted the Magna Carta.