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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in Iraq to meet with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and American commanders, four months after the U.S. launched a campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State militants.

The Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebel forces are laying down their arms in an attempt to revive a September cease-fire.

India's capital has banned all web-based taxi companies after a woman accused a driver from the U.S.-based firm Uber of raping her.

A damaged building in Aleppo City, Syria.

New Delhi has deployed thousands of troops across the India-controlled part of Kashmir as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to make a campaign visit to the region just days after deadly militant attacks.

Syria is accusing Israel of launching two airstrikes on it Sunday, one near the Damascus international airport and another near the town of Dimas, close to the border with Lebanon.

Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay.

North Korea has denied responsibility for a devastating cyber attack on the Sony Pictures computer network, despite the fact that no one has officially accused the Stalinist nation of being the culprit.

The current policy of President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron, NATO, the EU, and Chancellor Merkel is concentrated on a single goal: driving President Putin out of office by a policy of regime change. All the stops have been pulled out for a foreign-steered color revolution, not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia: escalation of sanctions and economic war to ruin the Russian economy with the aim of overthrowing Putin; escalating military expansion; and a NATO arms buildup. These measures are a “chicken game,” but a game with thermonuclear fire, at the end of which we may all be obliterated.

The momentum for stretching mankind’s scientific inquiry into the further reaches of space now lies with Eurasia, as was clearly shown at the International Astronautical Congress, held in Toronto Sept. 29-Oct. 3.