US Court Overturns Conviction of Australian Former Guantanamo Detainee

A U.S. military appeals court has overturned the conviction of an Australian man who was held in Guantanamo Bay and found guilty years ago o...

World Leaders Demand Access for Monitors to Eastern Ukraine

European Union and NATO leaders are calling on Russia to stop supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine and to adhere to a mediated truce ag...

Obama: We Are Not at War with Islam

President Barack Obama says the United States is not at war with Islam. The U.S. leader told a White House summit on combating violent extre...

Wave of Sea Lion Strandings Linked to Warmer Pacific Waters

The strandings of a record number of sea lion pups along the California coast this year are linked to a puzzling weather pattern that has wa...

Australia's PM Deflects Indonesian Assertion of Bullying

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott tried Thursday to play down allegations of bullying Indonesia as a diplomatic rift deepened between th...

US Keeping Some Details of Iran Nuclear Talks From Israel

<p>The United States said Wednesday it has been withholding some details of nuclear talks with Iran from Israel to prevent tho...

Lengthy Legal Battle Looms Over Obama Immigration Order

President Barack Obama’s executive order shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation was supposed to go into effect this ...

Scientists Go to Extremes to Save Crops' Wild Relatives

With the global population growing and temperatures climbing, experts say feeding the world will be a major challenge in the coming decades....

The Path Of Blood: Remembering Ukraine's Maidan Massacre

Between February 18 and 21, 2014, antigovernment protests in central Kyiv descended into deadly violence. Ukrainian government forces fought...

Italy, Egypt Lead Calls for Action in Libya

As the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session on the Libyan crisis Wednesday, Italy urged the international community to ...

February 18, 2015

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Lebanese Artists Push Back Against State Censorship

In religiously-diverse Lebanon, some residents see censorship of arts and culture as a necessary way to keep the peace and preserve morals. ...

Riek Machar's South Sudan Rebel Group Fractures

Former South Sudan vice president Riek Machar's rebel group splintered on Wednesday when a senior official announced in Nairobi that he ...

Somali Lawmakers Position Themselves for 2016 Election

Somalia's new 66-member parliament is showing a new and increased willingness to challenge the president and prime minister. Lawmakers i...

Goma Festival Seeks Healing, Peace Through Music

Several years ago, fed up with the violence engulfing their region, a youth group in Goma set out to hold a music festival for peace. The fi...

Traditional Aleutian Boats Gain Worldwide Fame

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the people of the Aleutian Islands have used small, quick kayaks called "Baidarkas" to pu...

Americans Volunteers Entered World War One Early

Missing from chapters on World War One in most U.S. textbooks is the name of Edward Mandell Stone, a 27-year-old Harvard graduate from Chica...

Myanmar, Kokang Rebels Trade Accusations Over Red Cross Attack

Myanmar and Kokang rebels are trading accusations over an attack on a Red Cross convoy, one day after the government declared a state of eme...

US Establishes Policy for Exports of Armed Drones

The U.S. government on Tuesday established a policy for exports of military and commercial drones, including armed ones, and said it plans t...

Greece to Seek Loan Agreement Extension

Greece was preparing Wednesday to request an extension of up to six months of the current bailout package for Athens, due to expire on Febru...

Regional Bloc Electoral Observer Mission Arrive in Maseru

The Southern African Development Community has sent its electoral observer mission to Lesotho before February 28 elections. An attempted cou...

Obama to Address Summit Aimed at Reducing Violent Extremism

President Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address Wednesday at a summit in Washington on combating and preventing violent extremism. T...

Scientists Unveil Map of 'Epigenome,' a 2nd Genetic Code

Scientists for the first time have mapped out the molecular "switches" that can turn on or silence individual genes in the DNA in ...

Haiti Mourns Carnival Accident Victims

Thousands of people, led by Haitian President Michel Martelly, held a candelight vigil Tuesday night in honor of the victims of a carnival f...

US to Support Cameroon Military in Boko Haram Fight

The United States will help Cameroon's army secure equipment to fight Boko Haram, its embassy in Cameroon said on Wednesday, as it deepe...

Israeli Defense Minister Hopes to Boost Arm Sales at India Airshow

Israel's defense minister arrived in India on Wednesday to help sell his country's arms industry to the world's largest defense ...

Senegal Seeks 7-year Sentence for Ex-president's Son

A Sengalese special prosecutor is seeking a seven-year prison sentence for Karim Wade, the son of a former president, on charges of illicit ...

Syria Monitor: Scores Killed in Aleppo Battles

Battles in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 70 pro-government fighters and more than 80 insurgents after the army l...

Soccer Unions Condemn Chelsea Fans' Racist Incident

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA have joined Chelsea in condemning an incident captured on video in the Paris metro, showing Chelsea fan...

Boko Haram Leader Issues New Threat

The head of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has threatened to disrupt the country's elections, which were already postponed until nex...

Swiss Prosecutors Raid HSBC Subsidiary

Geneva prosecutors have raided the Swiss office of the British banking giant HSBC and announced a criminal investigation into accusations it...

Laos Split Over Mekong River Dam Construction

The Laos government has been sharply rebuked by regional governments and environmentalists for ignoring their concerns and pressing ahead wi...

Indonesia's President Drops Police Chief Candidate

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday buckled to pressure and dropped his candidate for police chief after weeks of public outcry ov...

Hong Kong Leader Tells Residents to Be More Like Sheep

Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader has called on the city's residents, who staged mass pro-democracy protests last year, to be more like...

The Don Sahong Area

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UN: Afghan Civilian Deaths Rose 25 Percent in 2014

The number of Afghan civilians killed by conflict-related violence rose by 25 percent last year to the highest level since at least 2009, ac...