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The Republican front-runner fires back after the Democratic debate

Unseasonably warm temperatures block Muscovites' winter fun, spark dark humor

Flowers start to bloom and hibernating animals keep fattening up as winter struggles to set in across northern Europe.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday that those who "reject Syrian refugees, and especially if they are Muslim, are the best allies of the propaganda and the recruitment of extremist groups." It was a veiled...

Both Democrats and Republicans demonstrated increased support for legal abortion, a poll found

UN official says Somalia is a fragile and recovering but no longer a failed state

Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is condemning a prison sentence for a Saudi journalist who called for religious and political reforms in the kingdom, saying it's "unjust and disproportionate." …

The Iraqi military said Tuesday it was trying to recapture the center of the key city of Ramadi, a provincial capital whose fall to ISIS in the spring spurred tens of thousands of residents to flee and drew U.S. criticis...

CNN looks back at the flood of refugees to Europe in 2015, the tragedies and what may be next.

An international human rights group has urged an investigation into Burundi's forces for alleged human rights violations including extra-judicial executions, rape and looting during the deadliest day in the months of unr...

Reporters can sleep a little easier tonight, knowing that Donald Trump has no plans to kill them any time soon. During a rally in Michigan on Monday, the Republican presidential candidate crowed about Vladimir Putin's re...

Panama's Supreme Court has order the detention of former President Ricardo Martinelli to face charges that he illegally spied on opponents. …

Leyla Hussein says her family subjected her to cutting partly to avoid stigmatization, but the procedure comes down to one thing: Violence against women and girls.

Bernie Sanders did not mention the DNC data breach controversy during his first public stop on the campaign trail since the news broke last week that some of his staff in

Texas prosecutor: No indictment in Sandra Bland jail death; Charges on her arrest not decided

A New York Police Department officer was among six Americans killed in Monday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the New York Daily News reported. NYPD Sgt. Joe Lemm died when an attacker drove a motorcycle equipped wi...

A passenger said Muslim passengers were ordered to split from the Christians, but refused.

The president also plans to spend his final year in office working to spur other countries and the private sector to contribute more humanitarian aid, his United Nations ambassador said Monday.

Chipotle Mexican Grill's Steve Ells had more food fright to deal with on Monday after yet another E. coli outbreak was linked to his chain's food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said five people got sick ...

Its roots go back at least 80 years, well before either one of them were born

Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., said Monday that a teenage couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting inside an SUV in a locked garage. Authorities said the mother of 17-year-old Dorian Gomez Poehlmann found ...

Thousands of people -- including many in druid and animal costumes -- have descended on Britain's Stonehenge to see the sun rise on the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. …