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Embattled Spanish PM to face no-confidence vote this week
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MIAMI – Passengers set sail Sunday from Miami on an historic cruise to Cuba, the first in decades to depart…
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Ex-MI6 Officer on ISIS: Terror threat severe, ability to combat it weak
When I was a counter-terrorism operative in MI6 — Great Britain’s equivalent to the CIA — the work was exhausting,…
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – From the tables of Buenos Aires pizza parlors to the fields of this South American nation’s…
Read MoreFate of Paris attack mastermind unclear after raid, but intel sources reportedly say he’s dead
French investigators would not publicly identify one of two people killed in a terror raid north of Paris early Wednesday…
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