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Six Killed in Indian Steel Plant Accident

A poisonous gas leak at a government-run steel plant in central India has killed six people and injured at least 30 others.

Turkey Concerned About Militant Uprising in Iraq

An Islamist militants' seizure of the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul is stoking concerns Ankara could intervene in the fast-spreading insurgency.

Iraq: UN chief, Security Council deplore kidnapping of Turkish diplomats in Mosul

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Iraqis fleeing vioelence in Mosul arrive in the Kurdistan region.

Thousands of children at risk as families flee Iraqi city of Mosul: UNICEF

Around 500,000 people, up to half of them children, have been forced to flee their homes since violence erupted on 5 June in the Iraqi city of Mosul, authorities say, and the violence is spreading.

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