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UN Chief says Russia and US must unite to defeat ISIS
Ban Ki Moon - "Early next year, the U.N. is going to present a comprehensive plan of action to defeat violence and extremism."
Egypt votes for new parliament - critics say poll unfair
Egyptians voted on Sunday in the second phase of elections that are meant to restore parliament after a more than three-year hiatus but which critics say have been undermined by widespread repression.
Gay Africans ask Pope to preach tolerance on his visit
Francis travels to Kenya and Uganda. He also visits conflict-torn Central African Republic on a tour that starts on Nov. 25
UN says world must come together to combat ISIS and other extremists
"The Islamic State constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security," the resolution said
Top Egyptian Muslim: Terrorists suffering "intellectual and psychological disease"
Egypt's most senior Muslim cleric said terrorism was a disease that used religion as a front
Brussels metro shut as Belgian capital put on maximum alert
Warnings to public to avoid crowds because of a "serious and imminent" threat of an attack
New Zealand Helicopter crash kills seven including four Brits
Remote crash happened on the coast of the South Island
Woman fatally stabbed in New York, baby born at the scene
The baby was unhurt and being cared for at a Bronx-area hospital
Pope's Africa visit highlights huge growth in the Church across the continent
Catholicims is growing, but so is Islam as well as Pentecostal and evangelical churches
New Ebola case found in Liberia
A new case of Ebola emerged in Liberia on Friday in a setback for the country declared free of the disease on September 3 and for the region, which is struggling to end an epidemic that has killed around 11,300 people.
Mali hotel attack: 80 hostages freed, three reported dead
Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people hostage.
Islamist gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, 170 taken hostage
Gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked a luxury hotel full of foreigners in Mali's capital Bamako early on Friday morning, taking 170 people hostage, a senior security source and the hotel's operator said.
At least four Paris attackers were on US watchlists, officials say
At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the US intelligence community, five US officials said on Thursday.
US House votes to suspend acceptance of Syrian refugees
The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed legislation to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year.
Five dead in Palestinian stabbing attack
A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli police and the army said.
ISIS releases photo of 'Schweppes bomb' used to bring down Russian plane
Islamic State's official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.