Bombing in Turkey Kills 13 Soldiers and Wounds Dozens More and other top stories.

• Bombing in Turkey Kills 13 Soldiers and Wounds Dozens More

  

  Video Car Bomb Kills 13 in Turkey A car bomb in the Turkish city of Kayseri targeted soldiers who were on leave, killing 13 who were traveling by bus on Saturday. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Depo Photos, via Associated Press... Watch in Times Video » A car bombing in central Turkey killed 13 soldiers and wounded more than 50 other members of the military on Saturday, ..

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• Powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits off Papau New Guinea

  

  People living along Papua New Guinea's coastline fled to higher ground on Saturday after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck east of the Pacific nation, triggering a tsunami warning for parts of its archipelago.A couple of hours after the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said the threat had largely passed, although it said government agencies should continue to monitor coastal tides."Based on all available data ... the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed," the PTWC ..

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• Philippines' Duterte to US over aid: 'Bye-bye America'

  

  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte(Photo: Tang Chhin Sothy, AFP/Getty Images)President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Saturday to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying "bye-bye America" as he reacted with rage to what he thought was a U.S. decision to scrap a major aid package over human rights concerns.A U.S. government aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, said earlier in the week that its board deferred a vote on a renewal of the development assi..

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• Obama Confronts Complexity of Using a Mighty Cyberarsenal Against Russia

  

  The idea of exposing Mr. Putin’s links to oligarchs was set aside after some aides argued that it would not come as a shock to Russians. Still, there are proposals to cut off leaders in Mr. Putin’s inner circle from their hidden bank accounts in Europe and Asia. There is an option to use sanctions under a year-old executive order to ban international travel for senior officials in the G.R.U., the Russian military intelligence unit that American spy agencies say stole emails from the Democratic ..

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• China said it would return a seized US naval drone. Trump told them to 'keep it.'

  

  The Chinese government said Saturday it will return a U.S. naval drone seized last week in the South China Sea, a step toward defusing maritime tensions between the two Pacific powers.  President-elect Donald Trump reacted to the news by telling them he doesn’t want it back. “We should tell China that we don’t want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!” he tweeted Saturday evening. The comment could prolong one of the most serious incidents between the U.S. and Chinese militaries in rec..

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• Indonesian military plane crashes in Papua, killing 13

  

  Ali Kotarumalos, AP 12:58 a.m. EST December 18, 2016Indonesian soldiers examine the Hercules military plane A-1334 that crashed Dec. 18 in Wamena, Papua.(Photo: Handout via AFP/Getty)JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian military Hercules C-130 transport plane crashed Sunday in bad weather in the easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on board.The plane was carrying 12 tons of food supplies and cement from Timika to Wamena, a distance of about 200 kilometers (125 miles), ..

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• Michelle Obama's suggestion Trump is end of 'hope' for America gets pushback

  

  First lady Michelle Obama's suggestion that the United States has lost hope now that Donald Trump has becoming president after eight years of husband President Obama bringing “hope and change” to Americans was met Saturday with some pushback. "Michelle Obama says there is no hope,” Trump, the Republican president-elect, said at a rally in Alabama. “I assume she was talking about the past not the future. I honestly believe she meant that statement differently than the way it came out.” Alabama S..

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• Anne Frank House asks new questions about discovery of teen's secret hiding space

  

  Holocaust researchers this week raised new questions about the events leading up Ann Frank and her family being captured by Nazis in 1944, casting doubts over the widely-held belief they were betrayed by an informant before being apprehended and interned at German concentration camps.The executive director of the the Anne Frank House museum, Ronald Leopold, told reporters Friday that new research suggests Nazi secret police may not have been tipped off by an informant prior to finding the Franks..

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• Aleppo evacuation: Thousands wait to leave as 'new deal reached'

  

  Image copyright Reuters Image caption Aid workers say children are among those waiting in freezing temperatures in east Aleppo Trapped civilians and rebels are waiting to leave east Aleppo in Syria after a new deal was reportedly reached for evacuations to resume.Government and rebel sources say the agreement will allow people to leave several besieged enclaves in Syria.But hours after the announcement, aid agencies were still waiting for the process ..

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