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Cold War Deterrent Poses New World Safety Concerns

When the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, it marked the beginning of the age of nuclear weapons. Although the development and deployment of these weapons peaked during the Cold War, large arsenals still...

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UN calls for urgent response to help thousands in northern Iraq displaced by militants’ advance

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Members of an ethnic Yezidi family sleep in the shade in Shekhadi village, Iraq, after...

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UN-backed tribunal sentences Khmer Rouge leaders to life in prison

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Inside the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as guilty verdicts are...

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Illegal Immigrants Face Danger in Hot Texas Border Region

Over the last 16 years, according to U.S. government records, more than 6,000 people have died after crossing the U.S. border illegally from Mexico and finding themselves in a dangerous environment. Yet illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America...

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