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Russia has requested an international arrest warrant for former oil tycoon and Putin-critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky for the alleged murder of a Siberian town mayor.

Thai court sentences 2 Myanmar migrants to death for murder of British backpackers

British officials are asking US authorities to explain why a number of British Muslim passengers have been stopped from boarding flights to the US.

PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. The Oregonia...

It's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' versus Bruce Springsteen

South Africa's lion hunting industry faces new restrictions as a result of the decision this week by the U.S. government to protect African lions under the Endangered Species Act, according to conservationists. …

A majority of Americans believes home-grown jihadists are a greater terror threat than those who are foreign-born, and that overseas terrorists are trying to slip into the country, according to a poll released Wednesday....

Protesters gathered at the Mall of America and the nearby airport in Minneapolis to draw attention to the police killing of Jamar Clark.

A teenage Palestinian asylum seeker who broke down in tears after a blunt remark from Chancellor Angela Merkel has won permission to stay in Germany for another year. …

The Latest: 3rd death in Tennessee brings confirmed storm toll to at least 7

The man won about $437,000 in "El Gordo"

Italy's president has shaved two years off the sentence of a former CIA base chief convicted in absentia in the 2003 extraordinary rendition abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect. …

The four separate incidents came as revelers were gathering in the West Bank city of Bethlehem for Christmas celebrations

A 30-year-old Belgian man was arrested Tuesday in Belgium on murder and terrorism charges related to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, Belgian authorities announced Thursday. The arrest of the suspect, identified only as Abd...

Delta Air Lines flight makes emergency landing in Texas after having air-conditioning problems

Japanese government officials declined to comment Thursday on a reported ransom demand for a Japanese freelance journalist who has been missing since summer in Syria. …

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean will conclude in June 2016, according to a statement by the JACC.

The Transportation Security Administration can now mandate some passengers go through a body scanner even if the travelers ask to opt out and get a full-body pat-down instead.

"I feel bound to France forever now"

California mother takes fight to federal court to have brain-dead daughter declared alive

Minnesota hospital guard won't be charged in death of patient who killed deputy