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    US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at an event at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,...

Filipino Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin (L) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Hernando Iriberri wave after inspecting one...

A Bryde's whale ispictured on the deck of a whaling ship during Japan's whale research program in the Western North Pacific in 2013  ...

  Beijing: The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau has started soliciting public opinion about its sixth phase emissions standard, the world's strictest, due to be...

A woman tries to push demonstrators from blocking the entrance of the Gap store as they protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald who...

Flags, candles and flowers in Place de la Republique in Paris on November 27, 2015.   Paris: French President Francois Hollande has urged British...

Hostages are escorted to safety during an active shooter situation outside a Planned Parenthood facility where an active shooter reportedly injured up to...

Queen Elizabeth II stands next to Malta's Prime Minsiter Joseph Muscat during the gala dinner of the Commonwealth Heads of State Meeting (CHOGM)...

  By Alonso Soto and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday called off a trip to Japan and Vietnam to save...

    DUBAI: Bahrain's Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa was taken to hospital on Friday night but was in stable condition, state...

Representational image   Paris: The number of child brides in Africa will more than double to 310 million by 2050 unless urgent action is...

BRASILIA: Brazil’s federal and state governments plan to sue the owners of the Samarco iron ore miner for 20 billion reais ($5.24 billion)in...

Khartoum: Shelling killed a four-year-old girl and an Ethiopian peacekeeper in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan, the United Nations...

Herve Falciani   Geneva: Herve Falciani, the former HSBC employee whose disclosures uncorked the "Swissleaks" scandal on bank-supported tax evasion, was sentenced in absentia...

  By Elizabeth Pineau and Paul Taylor MOSCOW/BRUSSELS: The leaders of Russia and France avoided each other’s gaze as they made short, stiff statements...

Beirut: Lebanese army intelligence has arrested a foreign terrorist while trying to leave Lebanon with a fake passport, the army said Friday in...

  By Philip Pullella and George Obulutsa NAIROBI: Pope Francis urged young Kenyans on Friday not to yield to the sweet lure of corruption,...

  Geneva: Venezuela must find and punish those responsible for the murder of a prominent opposition leader who was gunned down less that two...