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Taliban insurgents stormed an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 141 people, almost all of them children, in the country’s …

LONDON  ― Brent oil slumped Tuesday to a new five-year low below $60 per barrel, as shrinking Chinese manufacturing activity stoked global demand concerns, …

PARIS ― His motives are a mystery and his acts described as random and deranged, but analysts say the gunman who took a Sydney cafe full of terrified people …

MIAMI (AFP) ― A warming planet may lead to swifter ice loss on Greenland’s ice sheet, and faster sea level rise for the rest of the world than previously …

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 84 people, officials said, in the …

Two hostages and the lone Iranian-born gunman were killed as heavily armed Australian police early Tuesday dramatically stormed a central Sydney cafe to end a …

A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district …

TOKYO ― Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces strong resistance to a promised economic and political overhaul despite a weekend election victory that …

LIMA (AP) ― A compromise deal salvaged by climate negotiators in Lima early Sunday sets the stage for a global pact in Paris next year, but a consensus could …

LUBUMBASHI, Congo (AFP) ― At least 129 people drowned when a passenger ship capsized on Lake Tanganyika in the southeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, …