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LONDON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Though its government said it's struggling financially, Gulf Keystone Petroleum said it was still getting paid for oil exported from the Kurdish north of Iraq.

Why the young love To Kill a Mockingbird

Moscow's UN envoy criticises Syrian leader for claiming he can retake the whole country and says he has to 'follow Russia's leadership'

Moscow's UN envoy criticises Syrian leader for claiming he can retake the whole country and says he has to 'follow Russia's leadership'

Bat-flight inspired MAVs will have improved aerodynamic properties, can fly over long distances and are more economical to run.

An air strike by an unidentified warplane Friday killed more than 40 people near the Libyan capital where suspected members of the Islamic State group were gathered in a house, officials said.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, killing as many as 40 people, the city's mayor said.

The New York Times, citing a Western official, said U.S. jets carried out the attack.

Hussein al-Thwadi told Reuters the planes struck at 3.30 a.m. (0130 GMT), hitting a building in the Qasr Talil district in which foreign workers were living.

He said 41 people had been killed and six wounded. Читать дальше...

Chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot and defence minister Moshe Ya'alon caution about lethal force against Palestinian teenagers armed with knives or scissors

Chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot and defence minister Moshe Ya'alon caution about lethal force against Palestinian teenagers armed with knives or scissors

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IGLS, Austria - Tina Hermann of Germany held the lead in the women's skeleton world championship after the first two heats on Friday.

BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron forged ahead at tougher-than-expected talks with European partners Friday after meetings through the night failed to make much progress on …

BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron forged ahead at tougher-than-expected talks with European partners Friday after meetings through the night failed to make much progress on …

Virgin Galactic will roll out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday. Company founder Sir Richard Branson says Virgin is prepared to test spacecraft for the first time since a 2014 crash killed a space pilot. (Feb. 19)

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art.

The France international admits he has admired the Bayern Munich manager from afar and has not ruled out working with him at some point in his career

Things to watch out for before you shake on it.

In the Oscar-nominated Jordanian film "Theeb," the eponymous character, a young boy still untutored in the ways of the desert, is stranded in a particularly hostile corner of the Ottoman Empire circa 1916.

Supporters of the bill call it a check on the power of state bureaucrats who write administrative rules.

Hiddink has improved form and as Chelsea chase FA Cup glory while City stutter, we ask if this weekend's hosts might end the season in better shape

The row around the arrest of a student leader accused of sedition in New Delhi, has dominated Indian news this week and generated acres of comment about free speech, the future of India and what it means to be “antinational.”

Dwindling job security, heavier workloads, regulatory upheaval and the poor public image of the banking sector are taking a toll on the mental health of Britain's bank workers. Francis Maguire reports.

Salah Abdeslam houdt zich niet schuil in Marokko, want als hij na de aanslagen in Parijs wel naar daar was gereisd, dan was hij al opgepakt. Dat zegt de grote baas van de Marokkaanse anti-terreurdienst in een interview met de Franstalige collega's van RTL. Volgens de krant La Dernière Heure zou Abdeslam in de weken na de aanslagen in Parijs ook niet in Molenbeek verbleven hebben, maar ondergedoken gezeten hebben op een adres in Schaarbeek.