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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

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

Officials say three bodies and one survivor have been found from a boat that sank off the Florida coast

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

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

A Turkish maritime company says pirates have boarded a tanker ship off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped six of its crew members. …

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

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...

Police are also planning to take action against the temple administration

The party's launch will intensify the political debate over Hong Kong's autonomy from China

Prince William has expressed grief over the Hindu temple fire that killed more than 100 people

An innovative solar panel technology developed in China could turn raindrops into electric power.

The survey, from Monmouth University, comes out just eight days before the state's April 19 primary

The National Weather Service said today it will no longer deliver the forecast in ALL CAPS.

Here's what you need to know at the end of the day.

An anti-abortion group won a court ruling Monday that it can keep distributing fliers that show pictures of an aborted fetus and a Lake Forest CEO and also include the executive's home address. The fliers, distributed by...