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UN faces tough task to get Cyprus peace talks restarted

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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Normally, trying to get the two sides on ethnically divided Cyprus to sit down for yet another round of talks is...

Kuwait police: man rearrested after killing woman on bail

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Police in Kuwait rearrested a man who they said fatally stabbed a woman after his release on bail, a...

UN Security Council votes on monitors of Libya cease-fire

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and...

Turkey withdraws from European treaty protecting women

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ISTANBUL — Turkey has withdrawn from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first to sign 10 years ago...

Timeline: Yemen war began in 2014 when Houthis seized Sanaa

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CAIRO — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire....