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US Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry is seeking Russia's co-operation to stop bombing of northern province.

Finnish broadcaster YLE says it won't provide documents related to the Panama Papers to the country's tax authority, which has demanded access to them in an apparent move to trace tax dodgers with offshore accounts. …

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Lower Silesia, in southwestern Poland, is a land of treasure hunters. Until the end of the Second World War, the region--covered by mountains and deep pine forests with towering, arrowlike trees--was part of Germany. In ...

The US state of Georgia could soon make it legal for students over the age of 21 to take a concealed weapon to university.

It was democracy in action Monday afternoon when Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz crossed the street following a retail stop to address a handful of protesters wielding Donald Trump signs shouting "Lyin' Ted" a...

Jamaican police said Sunday that two U.S. missionaries were found slain in a rural area of the Caribbean island that has long struggled with high rates of violent crime. …

Israeli police say security guards and not officers fired the shots that killed two Palestinian siblings at a West Bank checkpoint last week. …

A French appeals court has upheld a four-year prison sentence against a maker of fraudulent breast implants that were given to tens of thousands of women worldwide from 2001 to 2010

Immigration a main cause for marchers' concern as at least nine were arrested Sunday in Seattle, while hundreds protested in downtown Los Angeles Seattle police used pepper spray to disperse black-clad anti-capitalist pr...

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Families of foreign jihadis killed in Syria are helping a deradicalisation programme to bring young men back from the brink Scrolling through photos on her mobile phone, Saliha Ben Ali stops at a picture of her son, Sabr...

When Nathanial White was asked whether his French teacher actually spoke French, he replied, yes - but with a caveat.

New Zealander beats own record with four minute and 24 second plunge in blue hole in Bahamas A freediver has set a new world record - plunging 122m into a blue hole in the Bahamas on one breath. New Zealander William Tru...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) used his appearance on Sunday's Face the Nation to warn Republicans about the harm he says Donald Trump is causing the party. "Let me just tell my friends, who I really do respect, if you are...

The Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought, affecting one in five pregnant women who contract it, scientists in Brazil say.

What is it about air travel that brings out the worst in us? We squabble for space in the overhead compartment and on the armrest. Some passengers have even been caught kicking each other and screaming at the flight crew...

Indonesian police said they fatally shot a French citizen after he stabbed a policeman to death Monday while resisting arrest on the resort island of Bali. …

A Texas high school teacher who teaches French could have to bid adieu to his job -- because he doesn't know how to speak the language. Albert Moyer has been teaching French classes at the Houston Independent School Dist...

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Kevin Drum of Mother Jones, like most baby boomers, is no fan of Bernie Sanders. With the primary all but settled in favor of his preferred candidate, he's chosen now as a time to outline why he never felt the Bern: Sand...

The feat of correcting vision with a tiny, permeable, and tear-friendly contact lens is impressive enough, but soon that will be only the beginning. Scientists are thinking bigger about what can fit in a small lens -- an...