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Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots are protesting against what they say is Turkey's attempt to mold their secular culture into one that's more in tune with Islamic norms.

The government of Trinidad and Tobago has reportedly confirmed that nine of its citizens will be deported from Turkey after being detained while trying to enter Syria or Iraq to join the Islamic State group.

Earl strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday and roared toward a nighttime landfall in the Caribbean nation of Belize as it brushed by Honduras, leaving felled trees and power lines in its wake.

All seemed normal to the 300 people aboard the Emirates airliner as it flew past the world's tallest building in hazy skies and made a slow left turn over the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Cuban officials say more than 2 million tourists have visited Cuba this year, putting the country on track for a record number of visitors.

A near-hurricane-force Tropical Storm Earl felled trees and power lines Wednesday as it bore down on the Bay Islands of Honduras and the Caribbean nation of Belize.

The Russian military says Syrian militants have used a toxic agent against civilians in Aleppo, killing seven and sickening another 23 people.

The 28-year old Syrian attorney turned down a scholarship to study economics in Germany in order to remain in his native Aleppo after rebels took it over in 2012, promising a new administration and life free of the rule of President Bashar Assad.

India's upper house of Parliament has passed a bill to rationalize the country's convoluted tax structure, creating a "one nation, one tax" market to boost its economy.

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An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport Wednesday, and firefighter died while responding to the blaze, but none of the passengers or crew on board were killed.

Britain is woefully short of one thing it desperately needs in its high-stakes divorce from the European Union: experienced trade negotiators.

A British judge says a British-Saudi woman who accuses her father of locking her up in Saudi Arabia is "in peril" and must be allowed to return to the U.K.

Residents and aid workers say the United Nations has not registered the more than 11,000 people who have sheltered at its sites in South Sudan's capital since renewed fighting nearly a month ago.

In what has become an increasingly common occurrence, North Korea attempted to launch two more ballistic missiles in violation of UN Security Council resolutions barring such tests.

A team of jump ropers from Hong Kong decimated an old world record in double-dutch last weekend at the world championships in Sweden.

Spanish officials have relented and say a couple who started an online petition to be allowed call their newborn son the Spanish word for "Wolf" will now be permitted to do so.

The Italian government is ready to "positively evaluate" any request for air base or airspace use in the U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya if that would yield "a more rapid and effective end" to the campaign, Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti said Wednesday.

Two girls in British Columbia came to the rescue of a cat with her kittens stuck underneath a trailer in the back of their elementary school, the CBC reported.

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who promises to end attacks on mosques and markets used by Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group.