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Russia vows response to hostile acts in Syria
Russia urges foreign countries not to supply Syria opposition with anti-aircraft missile launchers.

Russia urges foreign countries not to supply Syria opposition with anti-aircraft missile launchers.

Guterres, the former head of the UN refugee agency, will assume office on January 1, 2017, for a five-year term.

Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland will launch a new bid to secede from the UK in the wake of Brexit.

Nigeria says it will continue operation against Boko Haram despite the release of 21 Chibok girls.

The WHO says the tuberculosis epidemic claims 1.8 million lives worldwide each year.

Boris Johnson says the UK and other Western countries are weighing new military options for Syria.

Iraq says it has given a strongly worded note of protest to Turkey over the deployment of forces in north of the country.

Yemeni snipers kill a Saudi soldier in the latest wave of counterattacks against the kingdom.

France’s Hollande calls for a detailed road map on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

Following the king’s death, the transition of power could become an important juncture in Thailand, a country ruled by a military junta.

Moscow is committed to delivering the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense systems to Iran under an $800-million deal in 2007.

A private autopsy shows that an African American man killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina last month died of gunshot wounds in the back and abdomen.

The energy minister is the most senior Israeli official to visit Turkey since the two sides normalized relations after the 2010 crisis.

The US continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, approving more than $20 billion in military sales in 2015 alone.

The conversation on Thursday was the second between Zarif and Sergei Lavrov, coming in the wake of a fresh international push to end the conflict.

The girls were reportedly swapped for four Boko Harm prisoners held in the recently liberated town of Banki.

The court ruled against appeals by activists who sought to prevent the government from backing CETA.

According to the United Nations, more than 100 children have been killed since a US and Russian-brokered truce collapsed on Sept. 19.