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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, undaunted by the new Republican majority in Congress, issued a sweeping challenge Tuesday night to do more for …

BRUSSELS (AFP) ― The EU said Monday it will launch anti-terror projects with Muslim nations and boost intelligence sharing following the Paris attacks, as …

PARIS ― The deadly Islamist attacks in France and conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine are set to dominate discussions at this week’s gathering of the world’s …

GROZNY, Russia (AFP) ― The furious backlash against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed rumbled on Monday with a huge rally in …

Four men accused of having links to the jihadists behind the Paris attacks were due to appear before a judge in France on Tuesday, while police in neighbouring …

Ankara (AFP) ― Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday chaired a cabinet meeting for the first time as head of state, in a marathon get-together …

Conakry (AFP) ― Children on Monday trickled back to school in Guinea, where the Ebola epidemic broke out in December 2013, as West Africa cautiously began …

CAIRO (AP) ― An online video released Tuesday purported to show the Islamic State group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive a $200 …

BEIRUT (AFP) ― Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement prepared Monday to bury the son of its slain former military commander after an Israeli strike that killed six …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) ― Argentina’s government said Monday there was no indication that anybody else was involved in the death of a prosecutor who had accused …