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CNN's Jim Bitteramnn reports on security preparations ahead of a global climate conference in Paris.

"Shoot us or help us."

Erdogan condemns reports that Turkish businessmen were detained in Russia as animosity between Cold War rivals grows.

(Reuters) - A 32-year-old man has been named as a suspect in a shooting at a New Orleans park this week that wounded 17 people, including a 10-year-old boy, police said on Friday. The first identification of a suspect in...

A law enforcement official tells the Associated Press the gunman in a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Friday has been identified as Robert Lewis Dear. .  

Japan decides to resume hunting whales in the Antarctic after a break of more than a year despite a ruling by the International Court of Justice.

At least 21 people were killed and dozens more were injured Friday in a suicide attack targeting a symbolic Shiite Muslim march passing through a village in northern Nigeria's Kano state, according to an organizer.

Hamstrung by Congress, GOP opposition, Obama heads to Paris to clinch global climate agreement

Activists in US city of Chicago demand change in police culture to tackle killings of black youths by officers.

A mortar attack on a U.N. base in northern Mali early Saturday killed three people -- two peacekeepers and a contractor -- and injured 20 others, a spokesman for the nation's U.N. mission said.

When a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, he turned a bustling shopping center into a scene of fear and chaos.

Thirty-five activists occupy 1840s room at London gallery two days before UN climate change talks open in Paris Climate change activists have occupied part of Tate Britain, where they have started to tattoo each other in...

Black Friday is the worst day of the year for theft, new statistics show. There is a 28 percent increase in "off-premise'' thefts -- or those that occur away from home -- than any other day, a Travelers Insurance analysi...

Swiss video journalist Kurt Pelda shows dramatic images of what he believes to be evidence of cluster munitions in Syria. He is one of the few who have gotten inside Aleppo since the beginning of the Russian intervention...

Beijing hit with severe air pollution that's expected to linger for days

Pope Francis on Friday lashed out at the dreadful living conditions of slum dwellers in Kenya and other poor countries, calling them victims of "new forms of colonialism." The pontiff's harsh comments came during a visit...

A 78-year-old woman decided to spend her final hours last month -- to her very last breath -- in the now-shuttered New Jersey luncheonette she spent more than three decades running.

The race was staged ahead of next week's UN climate summit in Paris which is expected to agree huge cuts to carbon emissions.

The university police officer who was killed at the site of a Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs was a married father of two and co-pastor at a church.

Former inmate, badly beaten by New York City jail guards in 2012, fatally shot in Brooklyn

The plan to rescue the last Jews of Aleppo was hatched in Brooklyn during the waning days of summer.

Hawaii longline fishermen allowed to keep catching ahi using new Guam quota allocations