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Governing SWAPO expected to retain dominance in political stable, mineral-rich nation blighted by high poverty levels.

Crowd surge fears at four supermarkets in London spark calls to police as shoppers hunt for bargains on the peak shopping day imported from America.

Attorneys representing Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson, Mo., police officer at the center of a firestorm over the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown, said he has accepted that his career in law enforcement ...

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Russian-backed rebels are venturing into western and central areas of Ukraine, while Russian troops are consolidating the separatist-held regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, according to a Kyiv Post account of a briefing by ...

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Nationwide rallies planned despite political crackdown on Islamists since military's overthrow of Morsi government.

Five women receiving support from specially trained officers after multi-agency raid on Cowley Road guest house Two people have been arrested and five women taken away from a guest house by police investigating alleged s...

Violence in China's far west has continued despite authorities' 6-month crackdown on unrest

Two young patients who have spent time in Africa are tested at a hospital in Newcastle for Ebola after displaying viral symptoms.

The teenage leader of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests accuses police of repeatedly grabbing his genitals during his arrest for allegedly obstructing officers.

Volcano in southern Japan blasting magma in first eruption in 22 years, disrupting flights

The militant group appears to be stepping up its campaign of violence in the Afghan capital as foreign forces prepare to withdrawal

In Peruvian provincial capital, police failures fuel whip-cracking citizens' justice patrols

After heart surgery, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a Washington hospital Thursday, before arguments are heard in seven cases next week. The 81-year-old justice is expected to return to ...

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Members of the Islamist militant group Hamas reportedly planned large-scale attacks on one of Israel's biggest soccer stadiums and a rail line in Jerusalem, as well as several stand-alone car bombings. Such a violent ser...

UN agency declares 'state of emergency' in Gaza city after two days of heavy rain cause flooding in besieged enclave.

There is a broad sense on all sides that President Obama's policies on Syria and the Islamic State remain contradictory.

A bomb blast in a Nigerian bus station left at least 40 people dead Thursday. The recent blast brings the death toll in northern Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon, to at least 118 people in the past 72 hours.

How Korea helped prostitutes work near US military bases

Too few toddlers and young children are having the seasonal flu vaccine, the chief medical officer for England warns.