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Speaking by teleconference from Iraq, MacFarland was asked whether the USA should use carpet bombing strikes against Islamic State militants, a tactic proposed by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

There was another bombing on January 31, that killed at least 45 people, officials said.

“I do think it’s still important because what history has shown is that you can lose Iowa or you can lose New Hampshire, but you can’t lose both”, O’Connell said.

The research will see scientists cutting into the genetic code of embryos, isolating individual segments of DNA and assessing how they contribute to the early growth and behaviour of the embryos.

The Sunni extremist Islamic State group, which considers Shiites heretics, has claimed responsibility for previous bombings and shootings.

Later, campaigning in Cedar Falls, Mr Rubio played down differences among the Republican hopefuls, casting himself as the party’s best hope against the Democrats. They are followed by U.S. Sen. The Texas senator directed most of his final advertising against Mr Rubio as the...

A Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, wounding three, before being shot dead by a soldier.

If Trump gets a lot of the people who stand in line for hours to get into his rallies to the caucus sites Monday night, that number should be much higher – maybe as high as 150,000. The frontrunner, Donald Trump seems poised to win here. Iowa was 97 percent white-one of the...

More than 10 000 unaccompanied migrant children have disappeared in Europe on 18-24 last month, said on Sunday the police coordination agency Europol, fearing that many of them are exploited, including sexually, by organized crime. “We just don’t know where they are,...

The U.S. national team, now three weeks into its annual January camp, opened its 2016 slate on Sunday afternoon with a 3-2 victory over an Iceland junior varsity squad that yielded to the Americans for most of the match but still had enough quality to make things interesting. The...

Being remembered as possibly the greatest player in tennis history is no small feat and at the rate he is now going, there is a real possibility Novak Djokovic ends up getting there.

At least 86 bodies had been collected by January 31 in the attacks the previous day on Dalori Village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, where charred and bullet-ridden corpses littered the streets, survivors and soldiers told the AP.

Ten days ago, Israel also announced the biggest land grab since August 2014, which seized 1,540 Dunams (380 acres), of land near Jericho in the Jordan Valleys, and demolished dozens of Palestinians’ homes, who they claim have carried attacks and were killed or detained, or...

Army Lt. Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson, Jr., says he will have a better sense of conditions within a few months if he is confirmed. “I’ve either been deployed to Afghanistan or supported the effort from various duty positions in the United States and...

“We were seated outside our home shortly after the Isha prayer when we heard gunshots and within a few minutes the invaders had arrived”, Malam Masa Dalori, a community leader, told AFP. ‘They came in Golf saloon cars and began to shoot sporadically.