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US helicopter crash leaves two injured
A Black Hawk helicopter made a hard landing in Douglas County on a routine training mission and left two people injured.

A Black Hawk helicopter made a hard landing in Douglas County on a routine training mission and left two people injured.

The Kenyan government announces plans to implement drastic changes in its administrative and security personnel.

Rival Libyan factions are to sit down for a fresh round of UN-backed peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Angry protesters have gathered outside the courthouse of Baltimore to demand justice for black people killed by police.

Scores of Tunisian farmers have staged a rally against rising costs in the agriculture sector.

At least four police officers have been killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin.

The Tel Aviv regime launches a missile attack on the north of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The ICC's former chief prosecutor says he has been asked by Iraqi Izadi activists to help open a “genocide” case against Daesh.

Iran is ready to talk extending the “peace pipeline” to Bangladesh in a project which envisages exports of the Iranian gas to Pakistan and India, Tehran’s Ambassador to Dhaka says.

The US invasion of Iraq was a “genocidal war” and a "crime against humanity,” an anti-war activist says.

President Xi Jinping says China will reduce the size of its military force by 300,000 troops.

UNICEF says at least 13 million children are denied education due to the wars raging in the Middle East and North Africa.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney says he was right to support the invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush.

A senior Iranian diplomat says Tehran seeks to improve its ties with all regional countries, including Saudi Arabia.

A three-year-old Syrian boy, drowned off the coast of Turkey, was among 13 other Syrian asylum seekers who died, trying to reach Greece.

Russia says it is ready to join the battle against Daesh but will not take part in the US-led coalition.

The Syrian army and Hezbollah forces have managed to liberate more than 70 percent of the strategic city of Zabadani near the Lebanese border.

Saudi Arabia is nearing an end in its talks with the United States to buy two warships made by Lockheed Martin Corp.