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A court in western China sentences three people to death over a deadly car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October.

Fearful of a crackdown by the military junta, tens of thousands make the journey back home.

Russia solves Crimea tourism problem by asking state companies to send employees on free trips

The speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council has been arrested as part of the hunt for three missing Israeli teenagers.

Israeli soldiers have so far detained more than 150 Palestinian suspects in the search for three teens that Israel says were kidnapped, the military announced Sunday.

(Reuters) - Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq on Sunday after heavy fighting, solidifying their grip on the north after a lightning offensive that threatens to dismember Iraq. Resi...

MoreISIS Claims Massacre of 1,700 Iraqi SoldiersWhat You Should Know About What’s Happening in Iraq Right NowThe Only Winners in Iraq's Chaos: the Kurds(WASHINGTON) -- Security at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was bolste...

(BAGHDAD) -- The Islamic militants who overran cities and towns in Iraq last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show their gunmen massacring scores of captured Iraqi soldiers, while the prime minister vowed Sund...

Washington is considering opening direct talks with Iran on the security situation in Iraq, a US official tells the BBC.

A group of gunmen raided a police station before setting fire to several hotels in a town near the popular tourist resort of Lamu.

President Juan Manuel Santos won a second term, after vowing to continue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas the Farc Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, won a second term on Sunday with an election victory that al...

Home Secretary Theresa May describes forced marriage as "a tragedy for every victim" as a new law comes into force.

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On Monday, Chinese authorities sentenced three people allegedly associated with Islamist militants to death over a deadly attack in Tiananmen Square last October, on the same day 13 people were executed for "terrorist at...

KFC agrees to pay $30,000 towards the medical bills of Victoria Welcher, who was badly injured in a pitbull attack in April.

Rule aimed at eliminating political hiring lifted, signaling significant progress

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Scotland's main opposition party leaders jointly pledge to increase Holyrood fiscal powers in the event of a vote against independence.

At least 48 people were killed in the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni in an hours-long attack carried out by suspected militants who burned down buildings and fired indiscriminately at residents watching the World C...

Last year the U.S. Government killed 4 million animals. Whaaaaat? Trace has the details and the reasoning used for the controversial killings.

Embassy staff in Baghdad are evacuated amid security tightened as insurgents claim to have massacred 1,700 Shia soldiers.