ISIS claims deadly Syria, Yemen bombings and other top stories.

• ISIS claims deadly Syria, Yemen bombings

  

  The death toll has risen to close to 150 in the wake of the attacks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday in a post on its Facebook page. It also said that the death toll was expected to rise, as there are also around 200 injured, some critically.The London-based organization, which monitors the war in Syria, said that 73 people were killed in a suicide car explosion in Jabla, with other attacks in the city targeting a hospital and an electricity management site. SOHR also repo..

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• What Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Visit to Iran Means for Asia

  

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded a two day visit to Iran by signing a raft of agreements Monday, including two key deals that will likely enable him to circumvent contentious neighbor and regional rival Pakistan — thereby establishing a crucial economic and strategic pathway towards the rest of the world. The most noteworthy of the 12 agreements signed between Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is India’s investment of $500 million into developing Iran’s Chabahar port, con..

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• Leaders of 4 Countries Discuss Settling Ukraine Conflict

  

  MOSCOW — The Kremlin says that the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine have spoken by telephone about ways to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine.A Kremlin statement said the participants in the call early Tuesday emphasized the need to observe a cease-fire and discussed raising the efficiency of a monitoring mission by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.The Kremlin statement added that Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, G..

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• North Korean Official Who Survived Purge Now Leads Kim's Economic Plan

  

  Kim Jong Un is looking to one of North Korea’s more experienced technocrats -- who once narrowly escaped being purged -- to revive the economy in the face of punishing international sanctions.Kim this month named prime minister Pak Pong Ju, 77, to the five-man standing committee of the ruling Workers’ Party, making him the highest-ranking official to lead a new five-year economic plan. The regime’s leader announced the blueprint at the first full party congress in 36 years, held as he seeks to ..

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• Greek Riot Police Begin Evacuating Idomeni Refugee Camp

  

  IDOMENI, Greece — Greek authorities began an operation at dawn Tuesday to gradually evacuate the country's largest informal refugee camp of Idomeni on the Macedonian border, blocking access to the area and sending in more than 400 riot police. The government's spokesman for the refugee crisis, Giorgos Kyritsis, said Monday that police would not use force, and that the operation was expected to last about a week to 10 days. Greek police officers stand next to migrants at a makeshift r..

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• World Humanitarian Summit: 'The way we respond to crisis is itself a crisis'

  

  ISTANBUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments, aid organizations and U.N. agencies are meeting in Istanbul this week to develop a better response to what has been called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two, as conflicts and natural disasters have left some 130 million people in need of aid.On Monday, celebrities who work on humanitarian issues set out their concerns and hopes for the two-day U.N. summit:FOREST WHITAKER, U.S. ACTOR AND FILMMAKER"Around the world 250,000 boys..

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• Brazil leaked tape forces minister Romero Juca out

  

  Image copyright AP Image caption Romero Juca (left) is one of acting President Michel Temer's closest advisers A close ally of Brazil's acting President Michel Temer is stepping aside in a new political scandal.Planning Minister Romero Juca was caught on tape allegedly conspiring to obstruct the country's biggest-ever corruption investigation.In the tapes, leaked by a newspaper, he appears to talk of stopping the probe at oil giant Petrobras by impeac..

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• EgyptAir Flight 804: Conflicting reports over final moments

  

  Five days after disappearing en route from Paris to Cairo, some signs of the plane -- including life vests, personal belongings and human remains -- have been recovered. Still missing, however, is the plane's fuselage and the critical black boxes, which will provide vital clues of the fate of the doomed airliner.At the heart of the confusion over the final moments of flight are conflicting reports from Greek and Egyptian authorities. The flight was at 37,000 feet when it lost contact above the M..

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• President Obama nudges Vietnam on human rights, while pressing reconciliation agenda

  

  President Obama greets audiences after his speech to the Vietnamese people at the National Convention Center in Hanoi. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP) HANOI — President Obama urged Vietnam on human rights matters Tuesday while hailing its warming relations with the United States, calling the evolution from bitter wartime foes to growing partners a lesson for a world besieged by modern global conflicts. “At a time when many conflicts seem intractable — never seem to end — it shows how hearts can ch..

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