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Khobragade Scandal: India Won't Back Down

About 200 demonstrators in Egypt clashed with security forces and local residents, leaving two dead in the country's second-largest city Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.

A double car bomb attack outside of a hotel in Somalia's capital Wednesday night killed at least one person and injured up to a dozen others, police said.

TOKYO (AP) -- A Chinese cook who tried to fly a hot-air balloon to islands claimed by both China and Japan has been rescued by Japan's Coast Guard after crashing into the sea.     

Fatal clashes continue between mainly Muslim Seleka group and mainly Christian anti-Balaka group in the capital, Bangui.

A Boston public works truck became lodged in a sinkhole this morning after a water main broke in Chinatown, flooding the area, officials said.     

Snow is no surprise in the Northeast and northern Plains states in winter.

Homicides dropped 18 percent in Chicago last year and crime overall was down 16 percent, according to police statistics. The reductions came at a price: Nearly $100 million in overtime pay.     

In rapid succession, the U.S. in December sent Guantánamo prisoners home to Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, then capped the year with a “significant milestone” deal that resettled three long-held Uighur captives in...

These are few questions I have to the leftists of my country who have reduced social and political change to an extension of their private selves rather than the other way round.

Italian naval ship takes 233 migrants on board amid rough seas south of Sicily     

Just when you thought Fox News' holiday coverage couldn't get more ridiculous, it turns out the network thought live interviews with drunk Miamians was a good idea during its "All-American New Year's Eve." While live on ...

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, despite threatening messages from the Islamist militant group Shabab broadcast on local radio stations in the previous 24 hours.     

President Thein Sein said he would support changing the Constitution to allow "any citizen" to become president, an apparent reference to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.     

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- A British man and a New Zealand woman were found shot to death in western Libya, a Libyan security official said Thursday.     

Two senators told President Hamid Karzai that relations would be damaged if Afghanistan released prisoners accused of attacking American forces.     

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- A 648-foot government cargo ship with a labyrinth of tubes and valves in its hold should sail within two weeks to destroy some of Syria's chemical weapons, officials said Thursday.     

NEW YORK (AP) -- William Bratton took over the nation's largest police force Thursday for the second time, pledging to keep the city safe while also reforming community relations, which he said have been strained by the ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Health authorities in western Mexico said Thursday they have detected a probable case of flesh lesions due to the drug Krokodil, often referred to as "the poor man's heroin."     

Health care cancellations outpace enrollments

Former first lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday for a respiratory problem.     

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut man who has been leading searches for his missing 5-year-old son in Massachusetts has been charged with selling heroin, authorities said Thursday.