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Lt. Col. Toumba Mohamed said residents reported 400-500 women and children kidnapped.

Factory activity in China, the world's second-largest economy and top oil importer, slipped in March.

The three men who were executed were sentenced to death in September after being convicted of homicide and leading a terrorist organization.

PwC predicted it would take at least another five years for Europe's banks to get rid of their problem assets.

The talks are aimed at fixing a dispute over the border that divides Asia's largest nations.

San Francisco Fed chief John Williams, a voter on Fed policy this year, made nearly identical remarks on March 5.

The survey suggested that manufacturers faced considerable challenges from weaker domestic demand and deflationary risks.

The U.S. assured Afghanistan's leaders it would keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw.

More medical procedures are being performed on an outpatient basis as technology improves, thus lowering costs.

The Pentagon said on Monday it was notifying 100 U.S. troops that a group claiming ties to ISIS had posted their names, addresses and photos on the Internet and was calling for American sympathizers to kill them.

Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, said the marathon bombing appeared to fit into a broader "global jihad movement."

Former NFL star Darren Sharper admitted in court to drugging and raping women in California and Arizona and was expected to plead guilty in a similar Nevada case in plea deals prosecutors say will land him in prison.

The poll also showed that Rousseff's personal approval rating had dropped to 18.9 percent from 55.6 percent in September.

Four years after NATO warplanes helped dislodge dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has descended into chaos, with two rival governments fighting for control.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he regretted offending Israel's Arabs during a rallying call on election day last week that his critics had denounced as racist.

The Greek PM has said his country was committed to fulfilling its obligations in good faith and to close cooperation with its partners.

The prospect of Britain breaking away has moved up the agenda in tandem with a surge in support for anti-EU party UKIP.

Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester was speaking at a bankers' conference in Paris on Monday.

Alibaba's newly minted millionaires reportedly won't escape the gaze of the tax inspector.

The deal agreed with Pirelli shareholders is the latest in a string of takeovers in Italy by cash-rich Chinese buyers.

The Air Force said the problem appeared related to the ground software that builds and uploads messages transmitted by GPS satellites.

As expected, President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists came third with around 20 percent of the vote.

Texas denied a man a specialty license plate displaying the Confederate flag and he is taking his case to the high court.

Residents of Taiz, which is between the capital Sanaa and the country's second city of Aden, said that Houthi militias took over the city's military airport.

"The president should get over it," McCain said on CNN. "Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President."

Photographs posted showed one of the crew apparently executed on the spot and an injured pilot taken by rebels from the wreckage.

The data may play roles in determining the timing of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate hike since 2006.

While polls suggest voters are unexcited about the election for councillors with limited powers,mainstream politicians have all been touring the country with last-minute appeals to voters.

This was the third incident of its kind in the past four days, in which unidentified aircraft have flown over the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's compound.