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British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Kabul Friday on an unannounced visit, becoming the first world leader to hold talks with newly-inaugurated …

HONG KONG (AP) ― Prodemocracy protesters kept behind police barricades heckled Hong Kong’s under-fire leader on Wednesday when he attended a flag-raising …

The world’s largest outbreak of Ebola has infected more than 6,500 people across five West African countries and killed nearly 4,000 since the start of the …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― Brazil’s rapid religious transformation is reverberating through the country’s tight presidential race, where abortion and gay …

BEIRUT (AP) ― U.S.-led coalition air strikes targeted fighters, vehicles and artillery pieces of the Islamic State group on both sides of the Syria-Iraq …

KABUL (AP) ― Afghanistan and the United States signed a security pact on Tuesday to allow U.S. forces to remain in the country past the end of year, ending a …

NEW YORK (AP) ― Sectarian violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims has thrown up “an unfortunate and unexpected challenge’’ in Myanmar’s …

TOKYO (AFP) ― A Japanese coast guard patrol boat joined a search Wednesday for nine crew members missing from a Chinese-registered ship which sank off the …

TOKYO (AFP) ― The death toll from a sudden volcanic eruption in Japan hit 48 on Wednesday as rescuers discovered 12 new bodies in so-far unexplored areas of …

DALLAS (AP) ― The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was confirmed Tuesday in a patient who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas ― a sign of the …