Australian officials are increasingly concerned about young women supporting radical Islamic groups. Ministers warn that some citizens have ...
Australian officials are increasingly concerned about young women supporting radical Islamic groups. Ministers warn that some citizens have ...
A United Nations report says a North Korea shipping company, which has in the past been caught trying to transfer illicit weapons, has evade...
The United States has charged three men with conspiring to support Islamic State militants in Syria and wage war against the United States. ...
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said a voter-approved measure legalizing marijuana would take effect Thursday, despite warnings from s...
The top U.S. general in Europe has indicated there is no red line that Russia can cross that would lead NATO to step in and help Ukraine mil...
Heavy fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan state is causing hundreds of thousands to flee into uncertain conditions. Local aid organizatio...
Negotiations aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba resume Friday. On the table: lifting a half-century trade e...
Pakistani cell phone users have until midnight Thursday to register their SIM cards, or their service will be cut off. While some privacy ex...
A Lao dam project on a section of the Mekong River is drawing opposition from local fishermen, international environmental groups and neighb...
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard opening arguments in a workplace religious discrimination case that examines whether a clothing store can r...
Cambodian officials in eastern Ratanakiri province have deported four more Montagnards back to Vietnam despite protests from rights groups w...
Cambodian officials in eastern Ratanakiri province have deported four more Montagnards back to Vietnam despite protests from rights groups w...
Despite Russia’s crisis-hit economy, approval ratings for President Vladimir Putin are near record highs. Western sanctions against Moscow h...
Every year, Somalis in the U.S. send hundreds of millions of dollars back home to help their families make ends meet. But in February, the U...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Wednesday with French parliamentarians, the first such meeting since France closed its embassy in 2012 ...
Days after militants affiliated with the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the residence of the Iranian ambass...
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With the end of summer in the Southern hemisphere, the Antarctic research season is over. Scientists from Northern Illinois University are b...
U.S. authorities charged three men Wednesday with conspiring to support Islamic State. A statement published on the Federal Bureau of Invest...
Georgia plans a reform drive including privatizations, budget cuts and restructuring of foreign currency bank loans to contain the country...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a discrimination claim by a Muslim woman who was rejected for a job at a prominent cloth...
A remark by Pope Francis to the effect that he hoped his homeland Argentina could avoid "Mexicanization" was not intended to offen...
His nomination was barely confirmed, but within hours new U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter was jetting off to Afghanistan and Kuwait....
Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Wednesday called an early presidential election in the oil-producing Central Asian stat...
Man charged in stabbing of member of rapper Nicki Minaj's tour crew Philadelphia police said on Tuesday that they charged a suspect with...
Scientists from Northern Illinois University are back in their laboratory after a 3-month expedition on the Ross Ice Shelf, the world’s larg...
Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, duri...
The director of counterterrorism programs at the U.S. State Department has been charged with soliciting sex from a juvenile. Police in Fairf...
China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more l...
It was not an unusual evening for war blogger Eliot Higgins. As he was rocking his infant son to sleep in his bedroom in the English city of...
A jury in Texas has convicted a man in the shooting death of a former U.S. Navy SEAL whose life story was turned into the current hit movie ...
A new licensing agreement with the pharmaceutical company MERCK allows for the manufacture of a generic version of a pediatric AIDS drug. It...
More than 100 people have been killed in an avalanches caused by heavy snowfall in the mountainous province of Panjshir, north of Kabul, loc...
Ongoing fighting between rebel fighters and Myanmar’s army on the Chinese border has dislocated tens of thousands of people and raised tensi...
Filmmaker Roman Polanski testified at a hearing in Poland on Wednesday regarding a U.S. request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex cr...
Kurdish militia pressed a big offensive against Islamic State in northeast Syria on Wednesday, cutting one of its supply lines from Iraq, as...