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If recruiters don't meet their conscription quotas, this is how they choose who'll serve two years in the armed forces.

A colonel from North Korea's military spy agency fled to South Korea last year in a rare senior-level defection, Seoul officials said Monday. …

A German comic who mocked Turkey’s president as a goat-schtupping fan of child pornography may now face prosecution under a little-known law. TV funnyman Jan Böhmermann read a crude poem titled "Libelous Criticism," o...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the revered memorial to Hiroshima's atomic bombing on Monday, delivering a message of peace and hope for a nuclear-free world seven decades after United States used the weapon f...

Edward Lin had access to one of the military's most highly protected secrets

The increase is due to more tigers in India, Nepal, Russia and Bhutan, better surveying methods and conservation efforts.

Even if a president orders it, CIA Director John Brennan says the agency will never again use "enhanced interrogation" practices, including waterboarding. "I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniqu...

A no good, very bad start to turning his ground operation around

Abel Fatah al-Sisi signed deal to hand over Tiran and Sanafir, which Cairo has controlled since 1950 Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has been criticised at home and abroad for agreeing to transfer two Red Sea isl...

At least 12 people are dead and 38 others injured in a suicide attack on a defence ministry shuttle bus.

Voters don't trust Donald Trump to make America great again – and give Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton higher marks in handling a broad range of issues, pollsters said Monday. Trump, the GOP's delegate leader, i...

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President Robert Mugabe has hinted that he is unhappy with what he sees as filth on social media.

Albany was the epicenter of presidential politics Monday, eight days before N.Y. primary.          

For those looking glumly at their savings account statements, there are plenty of better returns to be had elsewhere As interest rates languish at the lowest level in living memory, there is little hope for savers lookin...

Two years after the shutdown of a suburban Tennessee cemetery, hundreds of families still can't find their loved ones and want answers

The daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori holds a strong lead in preliminary results from the first round of Peru's presidential election and appears headed to a showdown with another center-right candidat...

Hiroshima was the site of the first of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the US in the final days of the Second World War.

Authorities in the Ontario community of Attawapiskat describe 'rolling nightmare' as 11 people attempt suicide on one day A Canadian First Nation community of 2,000 people has declared a state of emergency after 11 of it...

University of San Diego study adds to weight of research suggesting having a partner significantly improves outcomes for sufferers Being married boosts the survival chances of cancer patients, according to new research t...

Police are also planning to take action against the temple administration

Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for four years, claims authorities falsified the results of the 2005 and 2009 elections Former Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest since 2011, has appealed...