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BOGOTA (AP) ― A former Venezuelan general detained in Aruba on U.S. drug charges was released by the Dutch Caribbean island and sent home Sunday night, …

CANBERRA (AP) ― More than 150 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers who languished on an Australian customs vessel for weeks have been temporarily brought to a detention …

Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Google Inc. cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The Facebook Inc. chairman added $1.6 billion to his fortune last Friday …

An art exhibition in China by a North Korean defector has been cancelled, gallery staff said Monday, with reports saying the show had been dismantled on …

The UN Security Council on Monday appealed for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza at a late-night emergency meeting called as fighting between Israel …

Palestinian Manal Keferna (right) cries with her sister-in-law Najwa Keferna upon their return to the family house destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Hanoun, …

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia has remained stoic about the threat of tighter Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, but analysts are concerned that the …

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ― Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases …

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― Israel on Sunday resumed its devastating military assault on Gaza after “incessant” rocket fire from …

BEIRUT (AP) ― An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country’s civil war, …