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UNITED NATIONS – The conflict in Iraq has taken a terrible toll on civilians with nearly 15,000 killed and 30,000 wounded during a 16-month period ending on April 30, by the Islamic State group, Iraqi security forces and others, according to a U.N. report released Monday. The U.N. mission in …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. envoy for Iraq is warning that a lack of funds for desperately needed humanitarian aid has already cut food rations to millions of Iraqis and may be forcing communities and families to look to the Islamic State extremist group for life-saving assistance. Jan Kubis told …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand police say they have found one body in a field of avalanche debris during their search for two missing Canadian hikers. Police spokesman Nicholas Barkley said Monday that teams have removed the body but have yet to make a formal identification. He said police …

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin and Sepp Blatter just can’t stop praising each other. The Russian president, speaking with Swiss TV on Monday, said the embattled head of FIFA deserves a Nobel Prize for his work. Two days after Putin and Blatter hosted the preliminary draw for the 2018 World Cup, …

SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials and witnesses say al-Qaida fighters have publicly shot to death six Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, in a town north of Aden. The witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said al-Qaida made the captured Houthi fighters, who were in their …

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed concern that massive flooding in much of the country might be used as a pretext to undermine November’s general election. In a video appeal Thursday to the international community for help for flood victims, the Nobel Peace Prize …

BEIRUT – Syrian state television is reporting that a shell has hit a street in central Damascus, killing five people and wounding 36. The TV report said the shell was fired Saturday by “terrorists,” a term that the government uses for all opposition fighters. It is not uncommon for opposition …

BERLIN – Two days of U.N.-brokered talks on Libya has ended in Geneva, with the U.N. envoy seeking agreement on a national unity government in the next three weeks. Libya is divided between an elected parliament and government based in Tobruk, with little power on the ground, and an Islamist …

MEXICO CITY – Police in southern Mexico say they have found seven bodies dumped on a roadside in the state of Puebla, near the border with the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Puebla state police said late Thursday the victims were not killed at the spot where they were dumped. …

CAIRO – Yemeni rebels ambushed pro-government forces in the south on Tuesday, setting off a major battle that killed 65 anti-rebel forces and handed them their first serious setback following a series of recent advances, officials said. The officials said 15 Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, were killed in the …