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An Amnesty International report claims that Nigerian security forces had warning of an imminent attack four hours before Boko Haram abducted 300 schoolgirls from their school in Chibok in rural Nigeria, but failed to sen...

Dr Rahul Pandey writes on effects of BJP & Modi's rise: "...The first is corruption and the other two are intrusions of business corporations and communal forces into India's natural resources and socio-cultural fabric r...

Here's one more book that identifies the Central Intelligence Agency as the principal killer of President Kennedy. The Agency surely had the motive and the means for the murder. It also puts the spotlight on the role of ...

Pro-government crowds gather in capital, a day after rivals began campaign to remove remnants of ousted PM's cabinet.

Take a look back and how the crisis in Ukraine started and where we are today.

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Urinary incontinence affects more than 15 million men and women in the U.S. not just medically, but emotionally and psychologically. Now a small new study shows that a pelvic-health-focused yoga practice could help peopl...

Anger at China in Vietnam to test Hanoi as it scrambles to respond to China oil rig deployment

Putin does not need to "invade" anything. He knows this is not the way to "rescue" eastern and southern Ukraine. Nobody will want to rescue a failed state. And Kiev will have to beg, once again, for Moscow's help, the le...

WASHINGTON -- Two officers at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen shot and killed a pair of armed Yemeni civilians during an attempted abduction of the Americans at a Sanaa business...

CNN's Matthew Chance reports on the military show of force in Russia on Victory Day as tensions with Ukraine continue.

Ikenna Nzeribe was the sole survivor after assassins from Boko Haram stormed his Nigerian church in 2012, just 60 miles from where the jihadists last month abducted more than 200 girls.

It took a major social-media campaign for the major media and other nations to respond to the kidnapping of 300 teenaged girls in Nigeria. A sorry commentary on the world in which we live.

Three weeks ago, 276 girls awoke to a nightmare.

Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an activ...

Top US negotiator says Israel and Palestine lack sense of urgency to make "gut-wrenching compromises" needed for peace.

You'd think it would be a no-brainer, especially in the week before Mother's Day, and even in a chamber unable to agree on almost anything. But 33 House members, including retiring Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, vot...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the last few months might be comparable to a spring cleaning: An airing of her political past before she sets the course for her much speculated-about future. As the former ...

Police arrested an Indiana man on May 8 for allegedly making a number of threats against Speaker John Boehner. According to the Justice Department, Brandon James Thompson began threatening Boehner (R-Ohio) because Congre...

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) is once again in the news for its criticism of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious(LCWR)in the Roman Catholic Church. One of the CDF's criticisms of...

Comedy Central announced that Larry Wilmore, perhaps known best as the "senior black correspondent" on 'The Daily Show,' will be replacing Stephen Colbert at the 11:30 p.m. slot in 2015. The show will be called 'The Mino...

Jang Jin-sung, a North Korean poet laureate and a employee of the country's United Front Department, the government agency responsible for "inter-Korean espionage, policy making and diplomacy," was walking through...