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Dutch police arrest 14-year-old girl who tweeted alleged al-Qaida threat to American Airlines

Native American group hoping to get help with land claim says US violated their human rights

Boko Haram has killed thousands since launching an uprising in the northeast four and a half years ago.

Ukrainian acting president Oleksander Turchinov has given pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Slaviansk at deadline of 0600 GMT to lay down their weapons, with a threat of a dawn attack if the deadline is not ...

Report that revealed massive US government surveillance among top finalists for Pulitzer Prize

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council met late Sunday in emergency session as violence escalated in eastern Ukraine, hours before a Monday morning deadline for pro-Russia protesters to lay down their arms or f...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Police commandos stormed a southern Philippine hideout of suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists blamed for kidnappings and extortion, triggering a firefight that led to the killing of two militants ...

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) -- Firefighters struggled for a second night early Monday to contain blazes that have killed 12 people, injured 500, destroyed 2,000 homes and forced 10,000 people to flee the densely populated hil...

An 87-unit apartment building in Hudson was evacuated Sunday night while a hazardous materials team investigated a substance in one of the units, authorities said. State fire officials dispatched the hazardous materials ...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian government on Sunday for the first time sent in its security services to confront armed pro-Russian militants in the country's east, defying warnings from Russia, Ukrainian officials s...

A Libyan court rules that the late Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, and other Gaddafi officials being held outside Tripoli, can be tried via video-link.

(BEIRUT) -- Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV says three of its journalists have been killed after they came under attack in the Syrian town of Maaloula. The station says the three were filming in the historic Christian town M...

For photographer Jun Ahn, getting high is just part of the job.

Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are to deploy a submersible into the Indian Ocean.

The UK will also suffer if India elects this far-right activist. We must sever our links with him

Last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe released a pro-nuclear blueprint for the country's future. Most Japanese are far more wary -- even those brave enough to head to Fukushima to rebuild lives and communities

A Utah woman faces murder charges after the bodies of seven babies are found in cardboard boxes in her garage of her former home.

Infamous boxing promoter Don King isn't holding a grudge against the Rev. Al Sharpton in the wake of a blockbuster report detailing how Sharpton snitched on King to the FBI....

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A gunman opened fire outside of a Jewish community center on Sunday, killing a doctor and his teenage grandson before heading to a Jewish retirement community a few blocks away and killing a female...

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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) -- A Utah woman accused of killing seven babies she gave birth to over 10 years was arrested Sunday after police discovered the tiny bodies stuffed in separate cardboard boxes in the garage of h...

As the near-daily Venezuelan protests continue, the military's strategic command chief, Vladimir Padrino, admitted today that 97 military and police officers are being investigated for "cruelty and torture."