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Richard Nixon was reëlected overwhelmingly in November, 1972, and resigned in August, 1974. Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, looks to be on about the same schedule: reëlected (not overwhelmingly) in October, 20...

Size — and a disability — doesn’t matter to this English woman! Katie Knowles, 25, is the UK's first plus-size disabled model, thumbing her nose at the degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis that have forced...

Jaelyn Young plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization

Beachgoers are credited with stopping the victim from bleeding to death after a "large proportion of his left thigh" was torn off.

We ask why many former Afghan translators for the US military risk their lives to return to Afghanistan from the US.

The Cold War marked the high point of America's civil-defense system. Starting under President Harry Truman, the fear of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union sparked emergency communication systems, air-raid sirens, pl...

Lithuania's intelligence agency is concerned that migration and terrorism are distracting Western countries from Russia's "aggressive policies" toward its neighbors. …

As President Obama gathers leaders for his last Nuclear Security Summit, tons of materials that terrorists could use to make small nuclear devices or dirty bombs remain vulnerable to theft.

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Another student foiled the plot by reporting it to grownups

Opponents of Venezuela's socialist administration are preparing for a fight over a congressional bid to give amnesty to activists the opposition considers political prisoners. …

Central African Republic's newly elected president Faustin Archange Touadera took the oath of office Wednesday, ushering in the first elected leader since Muslim rebels overthrew the government more than three years ago....

South Africa: Conservation group says 49 endangered vultures electrocuted by power lines this past weekend

The man who dramatically hijacked a jet wearing fake explosives and was pictured with a British hostage appears in a Cyprus court.

President Francois Hollande drops plans to change the constitution and strip militants convicted of terror attacks of their French nationality.

A large weapons cache headed for Somalia was discovered and seized by the French on March 20, authorities said.

Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen's conflict and has spiraled in a year since Shiite rebels seized the capital and Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the US, responded with a campaign of airstrik...

Htin Kyaw, a confidante of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been sworn in as Myanmar's president

Two bodies are found and another two people are undergoing treatment in hospital after an altercation at a residential property.

Outcry erupts among Australians with divided views over their country's past

The frontrunner says he has been treated 'very unfairly' by the party establishment as Lewandowski controversy swirls Donald Trump has backtracked on his much ballyhooed pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee ...

The United States and three allies are calling for a Security Council meeting to respond to Iran's recent ballistic missile tests which they say were carried out in defiance of a U.N. resolution. …