 Pro-Russia Rebels Declare Victory After Self-Rule Vote Ukrainian leader Oleksander Turchinov accused Russia of working to overthrow legitimate state power in Ukraine on Monday after pro-Russian rebels declared a resounding victory in rebel referendums on self-rule in eastern regions. | |
| Suspected U.S. Drone Strike In Yemen Kills 6 Al Qaeda Militants A suspected U.S. drone strike in southern Yemen killed six al-Qaida militants on Monday, military and security officials said. U.N. Officials Want Better Flight Tracking After Flight MH370 United Nations aviation officials gathered in Canada on Monday to discuss better tracking of aircraft in the highest-level response yet to safety concerns raised by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March. | |
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 | Taliban Launch Bloody Summer Offensive Taliban militants launched a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Monday, the first day of their declared summer offensive, targeting the international airport and the United States' biggest military base near Kabul. |
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 | France Is Redrawing Its Map To Save Money France's administrative regions — Normandy, Alsace, Burgundy, etc. — have long been part of the identity of citizens of this diverse country. Now, merging some of them is seen as a logical way to save money on bureaucracy, and the French support it — as long as it's someone else's turf. |
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 | Abducted Nigerian Girls Offered In Exchange For Prisoners The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday. |
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 | Are You Cultured Enough To Master This Language Quiz? Perhaps you know how to say hello and goodbye in a couple of other languages, but how good are you with general language knowledge? Do you know what "c'est la vie" actually means or do you just say it all the time, along with "chic" and "carpe diem"? |
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