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Scores dead in China factory explosion

An explosion has killed 68 people and injured 187 at a Chinese factory that makes wheels for US carmakers, including General Motors, state media said. The blast happened in Kunshan, a city in the eastern Jiangsu province, on Saturday morning. A preliminary...

Sudanese Christian woman leaves Italy for the U.S.

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam then acquitted after international pressure on Khartoum, on Thursday left Italy for the United States with her family. Meriam Ibrahim Tehya Ishag, who met Pope Francis during her eight-day stopover in Italy,...

Turkish PM Erdogan returning Jewish American award

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is returning an award given to him by a Jewish American group in 2004, after the group asked for it back because of comments he made regarding the conflict in Gaza. Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Serdar Kilic,...

Norway says Islamist militants planning attack in West have left Syria

(Reuters) - A group of militant Islamists planning to carry out attacks in the West is on its way from Syria , possibly heading towards Norway , police said on Friday. Norwegian armed police were deployed for a second day at high-risk locations including airports and train...