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(Reuters) - The military junta running Thailand has drawn up a list of emergency measures such as price caps on fuel and loan guarantees for small firms to kick-start an economy threatened by recession after months of po...

Representatives of both sides played down the idea that the exchange, long seen as a crucial prelude to any broader talks, might breathe new life into a peace effort.

Russia is threatening to cut off natural gas to Ukraine this week as newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is pushing to up the pressure on pro-Russian separatists.

Thailand's ruling military junta announces a series of measures designed to avert an economic crisis, after a quiet weekend in protest-hit Bangkok.

Fabien Cousteau is hoping to break the record set by his grandfather back in 1963 when he lived in an undersea lab for 31 days.

Federal investigators are looking for Ryan Kelly Chamberlain, 42, following the discovery of explosives in his San Francisco apartment. FBI agent Peter Lee told reporters Sunday earlier reports Chamberlain also had ricin...

Up to 3,000 Hong Kongers took the streets to call for democracy, in an prelude to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The Mi-8 helicopter broke into three pieces after crashing into the Munozera lake in the northwestern Murmansk region in bad weather Saturday evening, emergency officials said.

Seven people died from a lack of oxygen after climbing down a well in Cambodia to retrieve about 75 cents, police and relatives said Sunday

Statement by official on Christian woman sentenced to death for apostasy was taken out context, foreign ministry now says Sudan has denied a Christian woman sentenced to hang for apostasy would be freed soon, saying quot...

Former soldiers from Britain and US, most in their 90s, meet in Portsmouth to remember landings Some were old friends reunited once more to remember the horror they endured and the comradeship that kept them strong 70 ye...

Think that headshot makes you look impressive? You may want to think again.

Memorial services are held in Northern Ireland and Scotland to mark the 20th anniversary of an RAF air crash in which 29 people died.

Peter Bergen says Americans and Europeans have joined the war in Syria, leading to fears of a new nexus of terrorism that has already spawned a suicide bombing by a U.S. citizen

Why the site of the U.S. military's atomic bomb drop remains one of Japan's most popular attractions.

The King of Pop like you've never heard him before

Nicki Minaj embraced Drake, and 50 Cent shared the stage with Nas on Sunday at the Hot 97 Summer Jam.

(RAMALLAH, West Bank) -- President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday swore in a Palestinian unity government, taking a major step toward ending a crippling territorial and political split among the Palestinians but also setting th...

Oberyn Martell enters the arena to fight a trial by combat for Tyrion--but it turns out that he's prosecuting an entirely different trial.

How the crackdown on protesters in Beijing continues to exert influence in China, and beyond.

Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a former schoolteacher turned rebel commander, is sworn in to lead Central American nation.

Brazil marks opening of bus rapid transit system planned for World Cup