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More than 1,000 French websites have been targeted by self-described Islamist hackers in the week since the attack by jihadists on the satirical weekly Charlie …

Seventy-three percent of Americans expect to see a female president in their lifetime, even as men are expected to maintain their dominant role in business, a …

Deadly attacks by militants in Paris and other Western cities underline the need for a “global response” to the Islamic State jihadist group, U.S. …

World oil prices slid Wednesday after major crude producers stressed they will maintain output levels despite global oversupply, while traders awaited the …

TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan approved its largest-ever defense budget for the next fiscal year on Wednesday, as hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks to strengthen …

PARIS (AP) ― France’s prime minister demanded tougher anti-terrorism measures Tuesday after deadly attacks that some call this country’s Sept. 11 ― and …

BEIRUT (AFP) ― The Islamic State jihadist group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian …

BEIRUT (AFP) ― Jihadist groups tied to the men who attacked France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Paris kosher supermarket are waging an increasingly …

GENEVA (AFP) ― The United Nations on Tuesday said that the latest wave of Boko Haram’s “vicious, ruthless attacks” in northeastern Nigeria had sent …

PHNOM PENH (AFP) ― Rights groups have lambasted Cambodian strongman Hun Sen for using “violence, repression and corruption” to keep his grip on power as …