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Greece 'ready to turn page' on crisis

Greece is "finally ready to turn the page" on its financial crisis, EU commissioner and former French economy minister Pierre Moscovici said in remarks published Sunday ahead of crunch meetings. Moscovici is to hold talks Monday in Athens with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and in an...

UN Yemen envoy in new bid for peace

(The Daily Star)- The U.N. envoy for Yemen announced a new bid for peace talks between the government and rebels, after the latest cease-fire failed to bring an end the 20-month conflict. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he was heading to Riyadh and Kuwait "to prepare for a new round" of talks,...

More than 400 civilians flee east Aleppo

 More than 400 Syrian civilians have fled rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo for the government-controlled west as government forces advance in the city, activists said Sunday. The civilians fled overnight to the Masaken Hanano district and were taken to government-controlled areas,...

Two mass graves of Iraq's Yazidi minority found near Mosul

Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...