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Turkey Foreign Minister: French suspect crossed into Syria

Monday, 12 January 2015, 11:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Turkey's foreign minister says the common-law wife of one of the perpetrators of the terrorist rampage in France last week crossed into Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8. Mevlut Cavusoglu told the...

Pope Francis to start visit in Sri Lanka amid hopes for peace

Monday, 12 January 2015, 08:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Less than a week after its longtime president was surprisingly voted out of office, Sri Lanka welcomes Pope Francis on Tuesday, with the island nation's Catholic minority hoping he can help heal the...

Prosecutor: Paris kosher grocery gunman linked to third shooting

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 14:12 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher grocery, a...

La Dolce Vita actress Anita Ekberg dies at 83

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 14:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and '60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in "La Dolce Vita," has died. She was 83. Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia...

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