Turkey has shot down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, causing international powers to plead for calm as tensions soar between the two rival players in the Syria war.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - European, US and Australian law enforcement officials have met in the Netherlands to plan a crackdown on illegal online markets trading in everything from drugs to child pornography.
LONDON - The jury has started its deliberations in Chris Cairns's trial after sitting through seven weeks of evidence at Southwark Crown Court in London.
PARIS - Armed men who have taken hostages in the northern French town of Roubaix appear to have no link to the November 13 attacks by Islamist militants in Paris but were probably planning a robbery, police sources say.
TUNIS - A bomb attack on a bus carrying presidential guards has killed at least 12 officers in the heart of the capital of Tunisia, the target of jihadist violence since the 2011 revolution.
KABUL - Fifteen soldiers including two foreigners were taken hostage by the Taliban after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan, local officials and militant sources say.
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