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South Korea on Sunday urged North Korea to stick to their plan to hold high-level talks as the communist state issued repeated warnings that the South’s …

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AFP) ― Kurdish fighters halted a thrust by Islamic State jihadists toward the heart of the Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday, …

BAGHDAD (AP) ― A series of car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital killed 38 people in Shiite areas Saturday, authorities said, after Islamic militants killed a …

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AFP) ―Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday said he will meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin this week as Kiev reported rebel …

HYDERABAD, India (AP) ― Heavy rains and gusts ripped through a large swath of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a …

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― The governor of the southern Mexico state where 43 college students disappeared after a confrontation with police said Saturday that some …

CAIRO (AFP) ― Top envoys gather in Cairo on Sunday for a conference aimed at raising billions of dollars to rebuild war-battered Gaza, as Washington urges …

East Asia, with its trade and transport hubs and armies of migrant workers, is at risk from Ebola but is improving its defenses and may be more ready than …

A Japanese court has ordered Google to delete search results linking the claimant to a crime he did not commit, the latest in a series of rulings around the …

MADRID (AFP) ― A top U.S. health official urged swift action Thursday to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from becoming the next AIDS epidemic, while a Spanish …