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- Government condemns violence at French anti-Israeli protests
France has Western Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish populations, and crises in the Middle East, like the one triggered by the Gaza offensive, often spill into France.
- Iraqi prime minister condemns attacks on Christians
Nouri al-Maliki denouced ISIS for forcing Christians in Mosul and other cities to convert, flee the city, or pay punitive taxes.
- Pro-Russian rebel leader says will hand over MH17 black boxes to investigators
Alexander Borodai denied that rebels had interfered with the crash site of the downed Malaysian passenger jet. Kiev alleges that Russia supplied sophisticated missiles to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
- Israel ground offensive in Gaza destroys 13 cross-border tunnels
UN chief Ban Ki-moon left Saturday for the Middle East to help facilitate a cease-fire. In Israel, a Hamas rocket killed a man near the southern city of Dimona. The Palestinian death toll rose to 330.
- Ex-Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted on sex charges
Silvio Berlusconi had been convicted by a lower Italian court for having paid for sex with an underage woman, then covering it up. An appeals court acquitted the former premier.
- AIDS researchers, sports fans among passengers lost on MH17
An Australian family is devastated again as another group of relatives is presumed dead in a second Malaysian Airlines disaster.
- Mexico's 'Mama Rosa' inspires both anger and loyalty for her 'Gran Familia'
Residents of the shelter told officials that some employees beat and raped residents, fed them rotting food, or locked them in a tiny room.
- Attack on Kabul airport overshadows Afghanistan's election audit
Afghanistan's election commission began auditing ballots Thursday while a brazen attack on the Kabul airport temporarily shut down the facility.
- Israel launches ground offensive into Gaza. Hamas warns of 'consequences'
The Israeli military began a ground attack of the Gaza Strip Thursday, looking to destroy terror tunnels from Gaza into Israel. In response, the militant group said they are not scared by the latest Israeli incursion.
- Israel begins ground offensive in Gaza, following rocket exchanges and cease-fire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military into Gaza. Meanwhile, three more Palestinian children were killed Thursday by an airstrike in Gaza City.
- Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in eastern Ukraine
A Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner with 280 passengers and 15 crew on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, reports Interfax. The Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
- Ukraine says fighter jet shot down by missile from Russian plane
Also, Ukrainian forces took missile fire from inside Russia on Thursday, according to the Ukraine Security Council.
- Militants attack Kabul airport with rockets before being repulsed
Four of the attackers were killed in a gun battle with Afghanistan security forces.
- Why is Singapore banning Archie comics?
"Archie: The Married Life Book Three" was removed from bookshelves because it featured same-sex marriage. Last week, Singapore's National Library Board said it would destroy three children's books seen as being pro-homosexual.
- Tiger Woods back in the hunt at British Open
Tiger Woods is just three shots behind the leader after the first round of the British Open. Woods is playing in only his second tournament since back surgery.
- Netherlands found responsible for deaths of more than 300 in Srebrenica massacre
A civil court in The Hague ordered the Netherlands to compensate the families of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims killed in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. The Netherlands was cleared of liability in the deaths of nearly 8,000 others.
- Israel, Hamas agree to five-hour truce
At the request of the United Nations, Israel and Hamas say they will cease attacks for five hours on Thursday. On Wednesday, an Israeli gunboat shelled a beach off Gaza's coast, killing four young boys.
- Twelve killed as Typhoon Rammasun swamps Philippines
Manila, however, was generally spared the wrath of the typhoon Wednesday. Winds gusted to over 100 miles per hour during the height of the storm.
- Thousands flee as typhoon slams into Philippines, storm nears Manila
Parts of the Philippines are still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan, one of the biggest cyclones known to have made landfall anywhere, which killed more than 6,100 people last year, many in tsunami-like sea surges, and left millions homeless.
- German World Cup champions get hero's welcome in Berlin
Hundreds of thousands of German soccer fans turned out in the nation's capital to salute the return of the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions.