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As promised earlier in the day, Israel began the release Monday night of 26 Palestinian prisoners in the third of a four-stage release agreed upon in peace talks.
At least 15 people were killed Sunday when a female suicide bomber detonated an explosive at a train station in southern Russia.
Barrel bombs dropped from Syrian aircrafts have killed 517 people in the northern province of Aleppo since Dec. 15, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A Brazilian government investigation revealed that 59 inmates at Pedrinhas jail have been killed in gang violence this year.
Citizens of Spain's Ibi annually celebrate the Els Enfarinats Festival with a battle of flour, eggs and firecrackers.
At least 26 people are dead after a passenger train compartment caught fire early Saturday morning in southeast India.
At least 26 people are dead, including two children, after a passenger train compartment caught fire early Saturday morning in southeast India.
Iraqi troops arrested on Saturday leading Sunni MP Ahmed al-Alwani in a raid on his home in the western city of Ramadi, killing his brother and five guards.
More than 40 people are dead and 70,000 are homeless after torrential rains in southeastern Brazil caused flooding and mudslides.
Police arrested 10 men and charged six of them after two apparently unrelated groups raped a 21-year-old woman in India on Christmas Eve.
Protesters and police clashed in Istanbul's Taksim Square when protests against the government reignited in Turkey over a high-level bribery and corruption investigation involving close government allies.