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Canada says it will donate up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to help battle the disease's outbreak in West Africa.

The outlook for Australia's Great Barrier Reef is poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years, a report says.

The police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager last weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, an incident that has sparked repeated and sometimes violent racially charged protests, was injured in the...

The Rev. Al Sharpton pressed police Tuesday to release the name of the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in suburban St. Louis, and he pleaded for calm after two nights of violent protests over the young...

The Pentagon sent additional military planners to Iraq on Tuesday to figure out a way to rescue and relocate the tens of thousands of religious minorities trapped on a mountain by Islamic militants, senior U.S. officials...

The family of Jeffrey Edward Fowle, an American tourist detained in North Korea for apparently breaking an unspecified law, has apologized to the reclusive state and asked for his release.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 21 others in a predominantly Shiite area of the Iraqi capital, Reuters reported. Another blast from a roadside bomb killed two people a...

Following a report by Human Rights Watch in which it claimed that Egyptian forces deliberately killed over 1,000 protestors on political grounds, Egypt said the group's investigations were illegal.

Australian prime minister won't rule out sending a combat force to Iraq to prevent 'genocide'

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Reports of a new influx of weapons as war pushes the world's youngest nation to the brink of famine.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the situation in Iraq from his vacation compound at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts on Aug. 11, 2014. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh on August 9, 2014. REUTERS/Ari Jalal

The Federal Aviation Agency has declared a no-fly zone over Ferguson, Missouri as tensions between police and protesters continued after last weekend's police shooting of Michael Brown.

Today, the state of the world from Kiev to Cairo is harrowing, and the Arab Spring has failed to blossom but turned directly to winter. The Middle East has remained a horror chamber since the last century. If we have lea...

Two prisoners are still on the run 10 years after absconding from a Suffolk jail.

On Tuesday, Iran endorsed Haider al-Abadi (pictured) as Iraq's next prime minister, dealing a decisive blow against incumbent Nouri al-Maliki's fierce fight to stay on for a second term. Iran, which wields a lot of polit...

Today's wars seem to be against mostly civilians -- women, children, the elderly -- those who cannot fight back or defend themselves. Stark proof that, no matter where the war is, it is Genocide, War Crimes, and Wars Aga...

On his first papal visit to Asia, Pope Francis will celebrate Asia Youth Day as he looks to revitalize evangelism in the region.

Seth Mazzaglia dropped his bid to skip his sentencing hearing, at which Lizzi Marriott's friends and family will give victim impact statements.

The military in Colombia says it is sending more troops to the eastern province of Arauca to deal with a recent wave of attacks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed modest economic changes and kept the bureaucracy largely in place, frustrating those who thought he would introduce bold policies.