South Korean people expressed mixed feelings on Monday after prosecutors sought a three-year prison term for former Korea Air Lines executiv...
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Defense Swallows Nearly 15 Percent of Obama’s Budget Proposal
President Barack Obama's $4 trillion budget includes $585 billion to sustain his national security and defense strategies. That's ne...
Defense Swallows Nearly 15 Percent of Obama’s Budget Proposal
President Barack Obama's $4 trillion budget includes $585 billion to sustain his national security and defense strategies. That's ne...
Soldiers Rescue Villagers From Balkans Flooding
Soldiers were deployed in Albania and Macedonia on Monday to help rescue villagers and strengthen flood barriers after rivers burst their ba...
Veteran Actors Share Gratitude for Oscar Nominations
As the nominees for this year's Oscars gathered at a luncheon in Beverly Hills on Monday, industry veterans took the opportunity to remi...
Super Bowl Breaks US TV Viewing Record
Sunday night's broadcast of the National Football League's (NFL) championship game, the Super Bowl, was the most watched television ...
Parents of Murdered Mexican Students Seek Justice at UN Watchdog
The parents of Mexican students believed murdered by a drugs gang appealed to the United Nations on Monday for help in seeking justice, sayi...
Fearful Ukrainian Refugees Try to Get on With Life
The Russian-backed revolt in eastern Ukraine has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, taking an emotional toll. Most of ...
Obama Unveils Budget, Setting Up Battle With Congress
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $4 trillion budget to Congress that calls for tax hikes mainly on wealthier Americans and corporation...
Rights Group: Cambodian Police Detain 5 More Montagnard Refugees
Cambodian rights workers say police in remote Ratanakiri province have arrested five Montagnard asylum seekers from neighboring Vietnam. The...
'Auschwitz Accountant' to be Tried in Germany
A 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard is expected to go on trial in Germany in April, charged with at least 300,000 counts of acce...
February 2, 2015
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Report: Somali Minorities Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
A new report says Somali women and girls from minority clans are more vulnerable to sexual violence due to poverty, marginalization and disc...
Kobani Residents Return to Widespread Devastation
Residents of the Syrian town of Kobani are returning to their devastated homes, after months of fighting between the Islamic State and Kurdi...
Partial Afghan Cabinet Starts Work
Eight ministers along with the head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency started work Monday, four months after Afghanistan completed its di...
NATO: West Must be Ready for Long Russia Standoff
The West must be ready for a long standoff with Russia over Ukraine and not quickly resume normal ties as it did after the 2008 Georgian war...
Farming Changes May Hold Key to Ethiopia's Industrial Goals
Ethiopia's ambition to become a manufacturing hub may hinge on Khalid Bomba's ability to transform small-scale farming just as much ...
Investigators: No Evidence AirAsia Captain Left His Seat
Indonesian air crash investigators said on Monday they had not so far found evidence that the pilot of an AirAsia jet had left his seat, or ...
Ebola Vaccines Trial Begins in Liberia
A large-scale trial of two potential Ebola vaccines has begun in Liberia as part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that...
Tunisia protests loss to Equatorial Guinea
Mayhem erupted in the stadium in Bata when Tunisian players exploded in anger following a controversial penalty during injury time that pave...
Iraqi Kurds Find Mass Grave of Yazidis
Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have found a mass grave of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority believed killed by Islamic State militants ...
Northeast US Braces for Second Major Snowstorm
A huge storm headed on Monday for the northeastern United States, the region's second wintry blast in less than a week, after dumping mo...
Uganda: Body of LRA Commander Possibly Found
The Ugandan army said Monday it may have found the body of a Lord's Resistance Army commander wanted for war crimes and crimes against h...
Bahrain-based Satellite Channel Off-air a Day After Launch
Bahraini authorities have suspended a television channel owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one day after its launch, fol...
Nigerian Officials Say Body Count High From Maiduguri Battle
Workers collected bodies from the streets of Maiduguri on Monday, a day after the Nigerian army repelled an attempt by Boko Haram militants ...
Interview With Transparency International Chairman Jose Ugaz
Transparency International, one of the world’s leading better-governance and anti-corruption organizations, just elected Peruvian Jose Ugaz ...
Northern Kenya: Oil Deposits Fuel Violent Inter-Communal Conflicts
More than two years after Kenya struck oil for the first time in its northern-most county, Turkana, the two ethnic groups that live on eithe...
Pilot Held by IS Puts Jordan in Tough Political Spot
The fate of a Jordanian pilot held by the Islamic State group has raised public pressure on King Abdullah over his country's role in the...
Super Bowl XLIX
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Egyptian Police Officer Detained Over Killing of Jailed Islamist
An Egyptian police officer has been detained on suspicion of killing a suspected member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in the hospital, ...
As Innovation Lags, Taiwan to Retool University Entrance Exams
Taiwan’s annual university admissions exams are taking place this week as tens of thousands sweat over math and language questions to get in...
US Pledges Support for New Sri Lankan Government's Reforms
The United States threw their support behind the new Sri Lankan government of President Maithripala Sirisena Monday, pledging Washington...
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