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- Mexican authorities link missing student to mass grave
Forensic experts identified the remains as belonging to one of the 43 missing students suspected to have been killed by drug gangs working in concert with corrupt police.
- Uruguay accepts six Guantanamo Bay prisoners as refugees
The six men were cleared for release since 2009 but no country has been willing to accept them.
- Luke Somers rescue raid: What went wrong?
Something or someone alerted the al Qaeda guards as US Special Forces approached early Saturday. Gunfire broke out before the US forces were within 100 meters of the compound.
- Why Canada won't expand airstrikes into Syria
Foreign Minister John Baird said Canada is focused on its current airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq.
- How Swiss hostage escaped from Filipino militants
Lorenzo Vinciguerra made his daring escape by attacking an Abu Sayyaf commander and running into the jungle. Vinciquerra and a Dutch man were captured in 2012 while on a bird watching trip.
- Typhoon Hagupit slams into The Philippines, 1 million evacuated
Typhoon Hagupit had weakened Saturday to a category 3 storm, two notches below "super typhoon," but could still unleash huge destruction with torrential rain and storm surges of up to 4.5 meters (15 ft).
- Pakistan kills top Al Qaeda leader involved in NYC bomb plot
The death of Adnan Shukrijuma is a major blow to Al Qaeda and a significant success for Pakistan's military. Shukrijuma was Al Qaeda's head of external operations.
- Chuck Hagel says US will delay troop withdrawal in Afghanistan
On a visit to Afghanistan, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the US will keep up to 10,800 troops for the first few months of next year and then restart the drawdown, which is scheduled to reach 5,500 troops by the end of 2015.
- Typhoon Hagupit lashes the Philippines
Typhoon Hagupit, with winds gusting to 130 m.p.h., forced the evacuation of some 600,000 people in The Philippines.
- ICC drops charges against Kenyatta; prosecutor says she was 'undermined'
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, who had faced charges of 'crimes against humanity' at the ICC, was accused of murder, rape, and other inhumane acts as an 'indirect co-perpetrator.'
- With Kashmir elections underway, 17 die in militant attack on Indian army camp
The attack, near the line of control dividing Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani sides, led to a fierce gunbattle that left 11 Indian security personnel and 6 militants dead.
- Yemen's Al Qaeda threatens US hostage Luke Somers in new video
Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen threatened an American hostage kidnapped over a year ago, giving Washington three days to meet unspecified demands in a new video released Thursday.
- Chechen gun battle leaves at least 19 dead
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said militants traveling in three cars entered the republic's capital, Grozny, at 1 a.m. Thursday.
- Storm nears typhoon-ravaged area in Philippines
Government forecasters said Typhoon Hagupit was packing sustained winds of 127 miles per hour and gusts of up to 149 mph over the Pacific Ocean.
- Iraqi official says detained woman is not Islamic State leader's wife
Adding to the confusion surrounding the identity of a woman and child who were detained in Lebanon about 10 days ago, an Iraqi official said the woman was not the wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group.
- In Korean kingdom, there shall be no Kim Jong-uns but one
Reverence toward the name of the young god-king in Pyongyang means that newborn babes and ordinary citizens must change their name, if shared with Kim.
- US couple finally allowed to leave Qatar after being cleared in daughter's death
Matthew and Grace Huang were initially charged with murder in the death of their African-born daughter, Gloria, and were convicted of lesser child endangerment charges earlier this year.
- American teacher stabbed in mall restroom in Abu Dhabi
An American teacher and mother of two was stabbed to death by a suspect wearing a full-face veil and black robe in the women's restroom in Abu Dhabi.
- Israeli lawmakers vote to dissolve Knesset
If the upcoming parliamentary votes pass as expected, the current legislature will have served for one of the shortest periods in the country's history.
- Thirty years later, Bhopal residents still haunted by gas leak
On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air in Bhopal, India, quickly killing about 4,000 people.