UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community on Sunday to halt the destruction by Islamic State jihadists of Iraqi archaeological sites, branding the smashing of priceless and ancient artifacts a "war crime".
A US-led coalition airstrike in Syria hit an oil refinery run by the Islamic State militant group near the border with Turkey on Sunday, killing 30 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Chad and Niger launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram militants in Nigeria on Sunday, military sources said, stepping up a regional push to end the Sunni Muslim group's six-year insurgency.
Felix Vargas read the report by the US Department of Justice on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded familiar: A mostly white police department overseeing a mostly minority town; questionable uses of force; officers ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill residents.
Exactly one year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur's airport and subsequently disappeared, leaving the world with one of the greatest aviation mysteries in history.
The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 revealed on Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane's data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8.
China promised that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will not end, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday during the ongoing annual parliamentary session.
Russian news agencies said one of the suspects in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has admitted involvement in the crime.
Police in India charged 18 people on Sunday after a frenzied mob stormed a prison and lynched a man accused of rape in the northeastern state of Nagaland, but it was unclear if they were directly involved in killing Syed Farid Khan, whose body was then strung up on a clock tower on Thursday.
The United Nations cultural body on Saturday condemned what it said was the destruction of the ancient city of Hatra in Iraq by the Islamic State jihadist group.
With a nod to ongoing US racial tensions, US President Barack Obama declared on Saturday the work of the civil rights movement advanced but unfinished.
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied at a square in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, calling for the replacement of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the country's March 17 elections.
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