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Suicide attacks on military base kill 7 in Yemen Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- At least seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and nine others wounded after suicide car bomb attacks on a military base in the city of Seyoun in southern Yemen on Tuesday. Two car bombs detonated at the military headquarters in Hadramout province in the northeast of the country, Yemeni...

More than 1,000 protest in Berkeley, shut down I-80 Protesters rallying against police violence block both directions of Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. BERKELEY, Calif. — More than 1,000 protesters marched for hours on city streets and shut down Interstate 80 in third night of demonstrations Monday over police killings in Missouri and New York. They...

Prince William And Kate Got A Very American Welcome At NBA Game Prince William and Kate took time during their 3-day trip to New York to attend an NBA game in Brooklyn between the Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The couple arrived in the first half but did not reach their courtside seats until the third quarter where they were sitting...

Qatar hosts Gulf leaders ahead of Doha Summit Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is expected to welcome Tuesday leaders of the GCC ahead of the 35th session of the GCC Supreme Council. Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is to welcome Gulf leaders ahead of the 35th session of the GCC Summit on Tuesday. During the summit,...

Sexual threats detailed in CIA torture report Preparing for a worldwide outcry, the White House has taken steps to shore up security of U.S. facilities. raphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency's anti-terror tactics, sources familiar with the...

German exports smash yet another record An increase in geopolitical tensions has not stopped German exports from rising steadily, fresh figures for October have shown. Monthly shipments abroad even logged a new record, the statistics office reported. For the third time this year, monthly German exports surpassed the 100 billion-euro threshold, with the figures for October showing no sign of a...

Hong Kong court gives deadline for protesters to clear Admiralty site A Hong Kong court has told pro-democracy demonstrators that they must leave part of a protest site in the territory's main business district. Protesters are expecting a showdown when police arrive to clear the area. Hong King's High Court published a ruling on Tuesday for three of the major protest...

Doubts over peace talks on Ukraine's 'Day of Silence' As Ukraine begins a "Day of Silence" in a bid to rejuvenate the failing truce with pro-Russian separatists, plans for new peace talks remain uncertain. Neither side has confirmed attendance in Minsk, Belarus. Talks between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists remained in doubt on Tuesday after officials in the Belarusian capital...

Qatar and Kyrgyzstan Hold Official Talks Doha, December 08 (QNA) - State of Qatar and the Kyrgyz Republic held at the Emiri Diwan on Monday a session of official talks chaired by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and President Almazbek Atambayev. HH Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani attended the talks. A number of their excellencies...

Obama administration announces ban on racial profiling The US Attorney General has announced a new ban on racial profiling by federal officers. The measure is a welcome change, but not nearly enough, say civil rights advocates. After days of unrest over the failure to indict two white police officers over the deaths of two unarmed African Americans, on Monday Barack Obama's...

Anti-Islamist protests end peacefully in Dresden and Düsseldorf Right-wing groups have organized protests with less politically extreme citizens to voice their concern over what they see as the Islamization of Europe. A counter demonstration, however, was also joined in droves. Dresden had a relatively large turn-out on Monday, with a PEGIDA-organized protest attracting over 7,500 anti-Islamist demonstrators.     Read the full text news...

3 missing after plane crashes into Md. home, killing 3 A small jet crashed Dec. 8, in Gaithersburg, Md., killing at least three on board the plane and igniting two houses. Three people in the most damaged of the houses, where the first floor was nearly blown out, are unaccounted for, said Chief Steve Lohr of Montgomery County Fire & Rescue. A...

HE Prime Minister Meets Iranian Communications Minister Doha, December 08 (QNA) - HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani met here Monday morning with Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi who called on HE to greet him on the occasion of visiting Qatar to participate in the Telecom Exhibition 2014.     Read...

Drive for Nato cooperation "behind the scenes" Sweden is not a member of military alliances, unlike Norway and Denmark. A Swedish military veteran says there is closer Nato cooperation than is openly admitted. Speaking out in the feminist magazine Bang, reserve officer Sigrid Aliki says Swedish personnel in Kosovo were treated like Nato soldiers, even wearing Nato flags on their uniforms. Bang...