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CNNJapan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of "comfort women" -- the term used to describe sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II.Japanese Foreign Minister…

IndependentA former El Salvador national football team player has been shot and killed by gunmen at a petrol station.Alfredo Pacheco, who played for the small Central American country from 2005 to 2013, was approached…

IndependentA “friendly” intelligence service has warned several European capitals of the possibility of fresh terror attacks being carried out before the New Year, in the form of shooting or bomb attacks, police in Austria…

Libyan NewsEastern region elders and notables said they would back up the Serraj government only if a number of preconditions were granted.In a statement in Al-Bayda, the elders conditioned recognizing the Serraj…

IndependentThe news from Afghanistan is very bad. No one says that, of course. President Ghani has a “national unity government” that “supports a strong partnership with the United States”, according to Barack Obama two…

BBCSome 500 soldiers have now been brought in to deal with "unprecedented" flooding in Yorkshire and Lancashire.A thousand more are on stand-by after David Cameron vowed to help people in "their hour of need".…

Vice NewsReports are circulating in Tunisia that a Canadian man was arrested last week in the southern desert city of Tataouine for trying to join Islamic State forces — but he was not trying to reach Syria and Iraq, where…

BBCIraqi officials say the army is now in "full control" of central Ramadi, where so-called Islamic State (IS) has been resisting an army offensive.However there were still "pockets of resistance", a spokesman for the…

The GuardianNo explanation given as inauguration of the Noor-1 plant – the first part of a massive new complex – in Ouarzazate is unexpectedly called off.Morocco has postponed without explanation the inauguration of Noor-1, a…

Russia Today (RT)Libya does not need any foreign intervention to cope with threats to its security, including terrorism. It just needs better weapons, as well as some help “in training and planning,” the country’s Foreign…