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At least two car bombs killed as many as 37 people Thursday in Iraq, apparently targeting Shiites and Kurds.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is facing its greatest challenge in recent memory as it responds to the Ukraine crisis and must take decisive steps, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) said in an address to the Organization’s foreign ministers.

Protests erupted throughout New York City Wednesday in reaction to a grand jury's decision not to indict a while police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in July.

With protests in Hong Kong dwindling and the leaders of the Occupy Movement turning themselves in to police, the United States has repeated its backing for the goal of universal suffrage in the Chinese territory.

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28th Session of the Joint ACP Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg

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The U.S. military says Iranian fighter jets have carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq.