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BBC Reporters 'Badly Beaten' in Russia

A team of BBC journalists was beaten and their camera smashed in southern Russia, where they were looking into reports of Russian soldiers killed while on secret deployments near Ukraine, the broadcaster said Thursday.

The three reporters were working in the southern city of Astrakhan when they were "assaulted by unidentified men in a coordinated attack," the BBC said in a statement.

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Half of Americans Disapprove of How Obama Handles Terrorism

For the first time since President Barack Obama took office, more Americans disapprove than approve his handling of terror threats, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a new poll.

The slide in the president's approval ratings on terrorism comes as the White House ramps up its fight against the Islamic State group that recently beheaded three Westerners, including two U.S. journalists.  

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Boko Haram 'in Charge of 25 Towns' in NE Nigeria

Boko Haram militants are in charge of at least 25 towns and villages in northeast Nigeria, the region's Roman Catholic bishop has claimed, warning of a deteriorating security situation.

Bishop Oliver Dashe said 10 towns in Yobe state, the same number in Borno and five in Adawama had fallen to the rebels over the last month, as they seek to carve out a hardline Islamic state.

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Kiev Asks U.S. for Special Security Status on Eve of New Ukraine Talks

A new round of talks aimed at finding a lasting solution to the Ukraine crisis will take place in Belarus on Friday, the ex-Soviet country's foreign ministry said.

"We confirm that such a meeting will happen" in the Belorussian capital Minsk, a foreign ministry spokesman told Agence France-Presse.

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Border Stand-Off Overshadows China Leader's India Trip

Indian and Chinese leaders pledged Thursday to resolve a long-running border dispute that led to a bloody 1962 war, as a stand-off between troops on the remote frontier overshadowed a rare summit in New Delhi.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had expressed concerns to China's visiting President Xi Jinping about "incidents" on the disputed border in the northern Ladakh region, where reports said hundreds of troops were facing off.

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Three Suspects Arrested in Chile Subway Bombing

Two men and a woman were arrested early Thursday on suspicion of involvement in a recent attack on a subway station in the Chilean capital, police said.

Fourteen people were wounded when a homemade bomb rocked a food court inside the packed Santiago station at lunch time on September 8.

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IS Jihadists Smaller Global Threat than Al-Qaida

The Islamic State group poses a smaller global threat than Al-Qaida despite its recent beheadings of three Westerners, although battle-hardened fighters returning home remain a concern, analysts said on Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama is gathering an international coalition to fight the jihadist group based across Syria and Iraq following the release of videos showing the murders of two US journalists and a British aid worker.

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Four Die as Flash Flood Sweeps through French Campsite

Four people died when storms turned a peaceful river that bordered their camping site in southern France into a raging torrent that swept them away, local authorities said Thursday.

The site in Lamalou-les-Bains was devastated by the overnight flood as storms that had already killed an elderly lady in the nearby region of Aveyron also left a person missing in another neighboring district.

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U.S. Urges Iran to Cooperate in U.N. Nuke Probe

Washington urged Iran Thursday to engage with a stalled U.N. nuclear probe, saying it was crucial to a major accord under discussion between Iran and world powers this week in New York.

Laura Kennedy, the U.S. representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Washington was "concerned... by the pace of progress" in the Vienna body's investigation.

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Nine Myanmar Police Injured Freeing Hostages in Factory Rally

Nine Myanmar police officers were injured as they sought to free officials held hostage by dozens of angry workers demanding wages and compensation after their factory was shuttered, authorities said Thursday.

More than 150 former staff descended on the Master Sport shoe facility on the outskirts of Yangon Tuesday, demanding payment following the closure of the South Korean-owned factory in June.

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