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French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of the murder of Dummer Lee Rigby, killed in London this week.

In January 2013, the staff at Cuentame received a phone call from 9-year-old Stephanie Pucheta and her mom Maria Ortiz. Their request seemed simple and straightforward: Would Cuentame help in preventing the deportation o...

At least 17 children were burned to death when a gas cylinder exploded on a school bus.

Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the s...

SAN ANTONIO -- Torrential rains swamped San Antonio with flash floods on Saturday, leaving at least one person dead as emergency workers in boats rushed to rescue more than 200 residents stranded in cars and homes. "It w...

More suspects detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder

This piece deals with the potential consequences of the assault on unionism, and the resulting decline in union membership and wages. This was followed by a rise in profits. The rift between the profit recipients and wag...

Arjen Robben scores a dramatic late winner as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final.

The year is flying by and beginning in 2014, you'll be required to have health insurance coverage. There is still significant confusion on how insurance will be bought and sold, and how much it will cost. In this post, I...

The bulk of the president's speech was devoted to justifying drone strikes. I was shocked when the President claimed that his administration did everything it could to capture suspects instead of killing them. That is ju...

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Local shopkeepers say one of the suspects was part of a group of Muslim activists who had been reported to police several times.

Brazil says it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (£600m) worth of debt owed by African countries, to boost economic ties with the continent.

If former Gov. Charlie Crist runs against Gov. Rick Scott as a Democrat, he will lean on a select group for political advice.

A top level taskforce is to be set up in the wake of the killing of a soldier in Woolwich to "look again" at the government's strategy for dealing with radicalisation and extremism.

President Obama's counterterrorism speech failed to quiet his critics on the Left who want an immediate end to the "war on terror" and those on the Right who demand more Bush-Cheney policies. Obama charted a middle cours...

Premier Li Keqiang calls on the EU to "respect the principles of free trade" in response to anti-dumping investigation.

A giant statue from Chile's Easter Island on Saturday found a new home in a small tsunami-devastated Japanese town where it will become a symbol for its recovery. The new statue, with coral eyes and a stone hat, was erec...

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