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The front line against ISIS can change in a flash, and U.S. forces are right up close to it

First assault charge to be brought after New Year's Eve attacks in German city dropped after witnesses fail to recognise defendant The first sexual assault charge to be brought after the New Year's Eve attacks in Cologne...

Canadian officials began evacuating 8,000 people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray by air on Thursday and hoped to move thousands more via a highway convoy Friday if it is safe from a massive wildfire rag...

In North Korea, a rare Workers' Party Congress is taking place.

Zac Blair is having a rough day. After missing a birdie in the Wells Fargo Championship on Friday, the 25-year-old golfer hit himself in the head with his putter out of frustration. Then he used the same putter to tap th...

President Obama met with a child of undocumented immigrants at the White House.

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More than a dozen people have been arrested after a teenage girl was choked, injected with poison, tied to a van and then burned to death.

The EU wants Turkey to revise its laws to allow Turkish citizens to travel to Europe without visas

Court rules there was no proof that the man was part of the group of alleged assailants.

Interviews with inmates reveal routine torture, unfair trials and solitary confinement Prisoners on death row in India are living in inhumane conditions, facing unfair trials and horrific acts of police torture, accordin...

Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse "beat and blow up with explosives."

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Plans to name a polar research vessel "BoatyMcBoatface" have been sunk by British officials -- instead opting to call the ship after renowned naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.

North Korea opened the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980 behind closed doors Friday, in an anticlimactic start to what officials have portrayed as a showcase of the country's stability and unity under yo...

A heavily Muslim Chinese province has demanded strict adherence to a ban on religion in schools after a video circulated online in which a kindergartener recites verses from the Quran

A Russian orchestra held a surprise concert Thursday in the Syrian city of Palmyra, just weeks after the Islamic State's retreat. The Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra performed in an ancient Roman amphitheater, conducted by ...

The Obama administration cooked up a phony story to sell Americans on the Iranian nuke deal, falsely claiming US officials were dealing with "moderates" in the Islamic theocracy who could be trusted to keep their word, i...

An air strike on a Syrian refugee camp that reportedly killed at least 28 people could amount to a war crime, a senior UN official says.

Donald Trump, with the GOP nomination within his grasp, egged on Bernie Sanders to run as an independent Thursday. "Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats -- both with delegates & otherwise. He should ...

New rules will ban retailers across the US from selling electronic cigarettes to anyone under 18 from August.