Grieving loved ones have laid to rest some of the victims of the double suicide bombings in Ankara that left 97 dead, denouncing the government in the first funerals from modern Turkey's worst attack.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not bow to "knife terror" as three new stabbings in Jerusalem spread more fear among Israelis and Palestinian unrest showed little sign of slowing.
BEIRUT - Regime troops aided by Russian air strikes have fought their fiercest clashes with rebels in weeks, as US-led coalition forces parachuted ammunition to rebels battling jihadists in northern Syria.
LONDON - Police officers are no longer stationed outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex allegations.
DUBAI - The death toll from last month's stampede at the hajj has risen to at least 1608, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it the deadliest incident in the pilgrimage's history.
HARARE - Zimbabwe has abandoned its bid to press charges against a US dentist who killed Cecil the lion, saying his papers "were in order" and that he did not know he was committing any offence.
STOCKHOLM - Angus Deaton of Britain and the United States has won the Nobel Economics Prize for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare.
