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Libya deal first step towards peace: UN
The UN welcomes Libya's new political agreement as the first step towards peace.

The UN welcomes Libya's new political agreement as the first step towards peace.

The Colombian government and the FARC rebels reach a landmark agreement to de-escalate fighting.

US Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has criticized Russia and China over nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Israeli forces abduct six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Two American teenagers have been shot and seriously wounded in New York, police say.

A Greek government official says the deal terms offered by Greece’s European creditors have been “very bad” and humiliating.

At least 60 Palestinian administrative detainees are boycotting Israeli military courts.

Baltimore authorities say they are creating a "War Room" to bring numerous agencies together to combat rising violence in the city.

Scientists discover a cell structure that could be useful in understanding of cancer development.

In multiple bomb blasts across the Iraqi capital, around 40 people are killed and over 80 wounded.

ISIL terrorists explode a baby in a training mission to teach members the mechanisms of explosive booby traps.

More than 10 civilians are killed in a Saudi airstrike in the Yemen capital Sana’a.

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham says the Republican Party must reject Donald Trump’s views on immigration as those of a “demagogue” and “a wrecking ball.”

President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian negotiating team will come out victorious in nuclear talks with global powers.

An explosion rocks a church in the central Nigerian city of Jos after security personnel detect explosives at site.

At least 25 people have been killed in a bomb blast in the eastern city of Khost, officials say.

US House Speaker John Boehner says a nuclear standoff with Iran is preferable to the agreement the Obama administration is negotiating with Tehran.

The statement made by US Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, who warned Russia not to create a crisis, is “irresponsible.”