European warships have gone into action against people smugglers in the Mediterranean, as French President Francois Hollande warned of the risk of returning to national frontiers, the dismantling of common policies and the abandoning of the euro.
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MOSCOW - Russia has dramatically escalated its air war in Syria, unleashing heavy bombardments and cruise missile strikes from the Caspian Sea as cover for a major Syrian army ground offensive against rebels.
BAGHDAD - The Islamic State group executed 70 members of a Sunni tribe allied to the government in western Iraq earlier this week, a tribal leader and the United Nations say.
JAKARTA - Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce is preparing to meet his Indonesian counterpart after seeing how Australian beef is sold and consumed in Jakarta.
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LONDON - Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum will speak out against his hero and friend when he appears as a prosecution witness in Chris Cairns's perjury trial in London.
LOS ANGELES - His name is Eminiano Reodica, but after living as a fugitive in Australia for 20 years the conman earned the nicknames Brisbane's Bernie Madoff and Teflon Don.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, have won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.
