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The U.S. military will announce on Friday that has it taken disciplinary action against 16 service members over a deadly Oct. 3 air strike in Afghanistan that destroyed a hospital run by the international medical charity...

China is planning to build nuclear reactors that will take to the sea to provide power in remote locations, possibly including the controversial man-made islands in the contested waters of the South China Sea.Podcast fav...

China has passed a controversial law imposing new regulations on foreign nongovernmental organizations and charitable groups.

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A South African court has ruled that a decision to drop 738 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma should be reviewed, adding to the leader's legal troubles. …

Crews are responding to a natural gas explosion and well fire in Pennsylvania where at least one injury has been reported

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Cambodian authorities arrested five human rights workers Friday on accusations they tried to help cover up a woman's affair with the deputy leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. The action is the lates...

A family who lost both of their children at sea describe returning to Afghanistan with nothing but two small coffins.

North Korea sentenced a naturalized U.S. citizen to 10 years in prison, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.          

An adult bald eagle in Pittsburgh was seen on an online livestream Tuesday bringing a cat back to the nest for its two young eagles. Some viewers watching the Hays nest site were disturbed by what they saw on the video. ...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have recently introduced us to a nifty new rewards system: The Woman Card.

Six people were being evaluated by medical workers after the substance was found at Trump Tower, and the Fire Department was awaiting tests to determine whether the powder was dangerous.

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Palm Beach Zoo officials on Thursday released a timeline of a tiger's fatal attack on a zookeeper and defended the decision to tranquilize the animal, rather than shoot to kill.

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North Korea's attempted missile tests Thursday are just the latest in a string of muscle-flexing and trash-talking provocations out of Pyongyang.

A day after Baltimore police shot (but did not kill) a boy who was carrying a BB gun manufactured to look like a Beretta pistol, the author of a recently withdrawn Maryland state bill to ban "imitation guns" said he inte...

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"I'm desperate to get students to take it seriously that they shouldn't be infecting one another"

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