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A doctor who recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the deadly virus Thursday, US news reports said.The …

OTTAWA ― A gunman whose name was on a terror watch list killed a soldier and attempted to storm Canada’s parliament Wednesday before the assembly’s …

ATLANTA (AP) ― Federal officials working to keep Ebola from spreading into the U.S. have ordered that all travelers who come into the U.S. from three …

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Hong Kong civil servants have taken to Facebook to anonymously voice support for ongoing democracy protests on a public page that points to …

JERUSALEM (AP) ― A Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, …

IRBIL, Iraq (AFP) ― Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers agreed Wednesday to send much-needed reinforcements to fellow Kurds battling to stop the key Syrian border town …

South Korea on Wednesday welcomed North Korea’s release of one of three American citizens detained in the communist country, calling for Pyongyang to set …

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AFP) ― Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements Wednesday after weathering another …

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ―U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to move away from unilateral actions stoking tensions and make the …

GENEVA (AFP) ― The World Health Organization said Tuesday it would probe complaints that it had been slow to wake up to the scale of Ebola, but insisted the …