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French racewalker breaks world 50-km record

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France to miss deficit target as economy hits standstill

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France to arm Iraqi Kurds fighting ISIS militants

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Frenchwoman rescued after 36-hour ordeal at sea

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Video: France face Canada in women’s rugby World Cup semis

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Bodies of five missing climbers found on Mont Blanc

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French champagne magnate Nicolas Feuillatte dies

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Paris robber goes on hold-up spree wearing electronic tag

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Thousands of anti-government marchers reach Islamabad

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Operation transparency for Russian aid convoy

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Dutch man returns Israeli WWII honour after family killed in Gaza

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Merkel urges Putin to stop sending arms, advisors to Ukraine

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UN Council targets jihadists in Iraq, Syria

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Middle east - France, Britain to join aid effort in Iraq, says Obama

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Middle east - Fresh strikes mar Gaza ceasefire extension

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Europe - Founder of Paris’s iconic Berthillon ice-cream shop dies

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Americas - Clinton blames Obama’s Syria policy for rise of ISIS

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Americas - US border crisis: 'The children are refugees, not immigrants'

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Mediawatch - Plight of religious minorities in Iraq under media spotlight

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Middle east - France to consider arming Iraqi Kurds battling ISIS

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Europe - Ukraine destroys Russian army vehicles that crossed border

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Middle east - Video: Yazidis tell of ISIS horrors in northern Iraq
Regarding the threat that ISIL poses for Iraq and indeed perhaps the whole of the region itself, It's not enough for Muslims and Arab states to merely verbally condemn ISIL saying it tarnishes Islams' image. The Arab states should join forces with Iraq (despite the fact that Iraqs' leadership is predominantly Shia) to fight and destroy this cancer known as ISIL. It is decades of scathing rhetoric and hatred from Muslims (including states with their own political agendas) that should have known better and that helped spawn this plague. Also, it is not merely a matter of degree either,.....all extremists and radicals of whatever stripe that use religion for their own purposes and ambitions need to be robustly condemned. Just as it was harmful and ridiculous for Protestants and Catholics to fight with each other so it is with Sunni and Shia. ISIL is a murderous cancer that subverts religion and blasphemes G_d, killing the innocents in His name. It is just and right to fight these murderers.
from jsanto, 30 minutes ago

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Middle east - Video: Kurdish factions unite in fight against jihadists in Iraq
It's not enough for Muslims and Arab states to merely verbally condemn ISIL saying they tarnish Islams' image. The Arab states should join forces with Iraq (despite the fact that Iraqs' leadership is Shia) to fight and destroy this cancer known as ISIL. It is decades of scathing rhetoric and hatred from Muslims (including states) that should have known better and that helped spawn this plague. And, it is not merely a matter of degree either,.....all extremists and radicals of whatever stripe that use religion for their own purposes and ambitions need to be robustly condemned. Just as it was harmful and ridiculous for Protestants and Catholics to fight with each other so it is with Sunni and Shia. ISIL is a murderous cancer that subverts religion and blasphemes G_d, killing the innocent in His name. It is just and right to fight these murders.
from jsanto, 56 minutes ago

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Middle east - Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS
It is interesting, however, there are a lot of historical mistakes. I think PKK means Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and Syria, if they are supposed to be a terrorist, it means all the Kurds in Syria and Turkya are terrorist! which is not true. We should call them the freedom fighters.
from Hewa Salam, 4 hours 34 minutes ago

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Europe - Ukraine destroys Russian army vehicles that crossed border
Since Putin continuee to thumb his nose at the US and the EU in the most flagrant way, what are they going to do about it? Meaningful sanctions are now certainly called for.
from jsanto, 6 hours 47 minutes ago

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Middle east - Wedding bells amid the ruins in Gaza
it is very funny and beautiful story
from tariq23, 15 hours 52 minutes ago

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Middle east - Yazidi rescue 'less likely' as situation improves, US says
They're all dead already Mission accomplished.
from Charles Smyth, 18 hours 59 minutes ago

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Middle east - Fresh strikes mar Gaza ceasefire extension
so Hamas say "it wasn't me " and of course you believe them, after all they have such a good record with the truth, and you have such a good record with impartial reporting, like most of the rest of the worlds media.
from Ray Veysey, 18 hours 59 minutes ago

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Middle east - Fresh strikes mar Gaza ceasefire extension
It is bound to be very painful for the 'Hamas' leadership to acknowledged that with the 'World Order' as it is now, the stark reality is that in any armed engagement with Israel, whether they initiate it or the Israelis do, they will always , in the short and medium term, loose. Unfortunately that means that Palestinian Children, Women, Disabled and old-men in their hundreds become inescapable victims of what is a futile excise that only placates and feeds the passionate 'egoticism and hunger to prevail' of the Leaders of both Communities. Those with influence over them must urgently plead with the 'Hamas' leadership that it must spare the ordinary Palestinians death , suffering and destruction flowing from this cyclical, uneven 'Dawoud and Goliath' struggle by completely ceasing to lob provocative , inaccurate, ineffective useless missiles at their historically related People occupying their once commonly shared Land. Convince 'Hamas' that Time, in the very long-term, is on their side and fruition of Justice for them will eventually be served when 'chance, change and diplomacy' have run their course !
from dmatlhoko35, 1 day 20 hours 23 minutes ago

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Middle east - Fresh strikes mar Gaza ceasefire extension
Again they cheat. HAMAS like ISIS, BOKO HARAM and likewise terror organizations cannot be trusted. The only reason Israelis did not suffer genocide as the Yazydis in Iraq is the might of IDF.
from alwaysforisrael, 1 day 20 hours 23 minutes ago

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Sport - Video: Fans applaud France’s rugby women reaching World Cup semis
Lets hope it will be a France v Ireland Final. Brilliant.
from carrigaholt, 1 day 20 hours 23 minutes ago

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Europe - Founder of Paris’s iconic Berthillon ice-cream shop dies
Just as in life, the worst thing about enjoying an ice cream is that it is eventually consumed and there is nothing left.
from Joseph Rosenfeld, 1 day 20 hours 23 minutes ago

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Americas - Obama urges calm after police shoot unarmed black teen
You pay attention to the news. You know that blacks are often targets for fascist police in the U.S.
from Pikku83, 1 day 20 hours 23 minutes ago

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