Reuters
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Bodies of Chapecoense Plane Crash Victims Returned To Grieving Brazilian Home Town
The wet drizzle mirrors the mood of the grieving town of Chapeco, Brazil, as it prepared Saturday to receive the bodies of victims of a plane crash in Colombia on Monday that devastated its football team.
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Iraqi Christian Family's Search For Three-Year-Old Daughter Taken By ISIS
In a camp near Mosul a picture of a three-year-old girl, snatched from her mother's breast by Islamic State militants when they overran her Christian town two years ago, is taped to a wall along with a desperate plea from her parents.
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Assad Aims To Take Aleppo Before Trump Takes Office
Syria and its allies aim to drive rebels from Aleppo before Donald Trump takes office as US President, a senior official in the pro-Damascus military alliance has said.
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Winter Closes In On Refugees Fleeing Iraq's Mosul
The United Nations is asking donors to fund winter kits for 1.2 million people â preparing for a worst case scenario that much of the city's population may have to flee.
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Trump Will 'Cleanse' America Of Muslims, Three Mosques Warned In Hateful Letters
Hateful letters sent anonymously to three mosques in California with a warning that President-elect Donald Trump would "cleanse" the United States of Muslims
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From Persecution To Praise: The Catholic Church and Cuba
Baptised as a Roman Catholic and educated by Jesuits, Fidel Castro became a persecutor of the Church after seizing power in Cuba in 1959.
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In Northern Iraq, Persecuted Yazidis Risk Everything To Flee ISIS
ISIS has systematically killed, captured and enslaved thousands of Yazidis, whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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Fidel Castro Dies Aged 90
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday.
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Now Trump Rows Back On Climate Change: It Might Be Real After All
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was keeping an open mind on whether to pull out of a landmark international accord to fight climate change, in a softening of his stance toward global warming.
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Hundreds More Myanmar Rohingya Flee To Bangladesh Say Aid Workers
Myanmar's military and the government have rejected allegations by residents and rights groups that soldiers have raped Rohingya women, burnt houses and killed civilians during the military operation in Rakhine.
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Bells Ring Out Again At Iraqi Church After Two Years Silence Under Islamic State
The bells have rung out after two years of silence in the Mar Korkeis church in the town of Bashiqa, some 15 km (10 miles) north of Mosul, Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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Philippines President Duterte Lashes Out At Western 'Hypocrisy' In Talks With Putin
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Western "bullying" and "hypocrisy" during his first meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin