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Policemen returning to work in southern city recaptured by government among attack's dozens of victims, officials say.

Protests rocked the Venezuelan capital of Caracas Saturday, as rival factions of pro- and anti-government activists took to the street to add their voices to President Nicolas Maduro's latest attempt to exert some contro...

Egyptian officials say two Cairo courts have convicted and sentenced to five years in jail a total of 101 protesters for taking part in peaceful, anti-government demonstrations last month. …

Call it the Trump Effect: Citizenship applications are spiking as legal immigrants rush to make themselves eligible to vote in November. Applications so far this year are up 12.8 percent over the same period in 2015, an ...

At least 11 people were injured after a Walt Disney World bus and an SUV collided in central Florida, authorities said Saturday.

One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The Obama administration's diplomatic point man in the international fight against the Islamic State group says the extremists have been losing control over territory and that "this perverse caliphate is shrinking." …

Supplies are lacking, electricity goes out, equipment is broken and patients lie in pools of blood as the country's economic crisis has exploded into a public health emergency.

Russia has a "problem" with doping and is "very sorry" that its cheating athletes were not caught sooner, the country's sports minister said. …

The stench of past scandals is haunting Hillary Clinton as allegations regarding the family's foundation fester. News that the Clinton Global Initiative aided a company part-owned by a close female friend of Bill Clinton...

Dominicans face a dizzying array of choices Sunday in one of the most complex ballots in recent history, with eight candidates for president, all 222 members of Congress up for re-election and thousands of people vying f...

Venezuela's president threatens to take over idle factories and jail their owners following a decree of emergency powers this week

China's defense ministry says a U.S. report assessing its island-building efforts in the South China Sea has "hyped up" China's so-called military threat. …

Depending on your guru, there are up to 12 stages of grief after a death or divorce. There are also rituals for politicians caught in scandals, but Mayor de Blasio is headed for a new record with his serially desperate p...

Several former Polish defense ministers are calling for the dismissal of the current minister, arguing that he is undermining the image of Poland's military within NATO and Polish society itself. …

Clinton made the joke at a campaign event not far from Churchill Downs.

BY DIOGO COSTA AND MAGNO KARL - Stakes are high for Brazil's new government. Dilma Rousseff is being impeached for illegally borrowing from public banks and cooking the budget. Interim President Michel Temer now has two ...

Writing in The Sunday Times, the country's sports minister acknowledged "serious mistakes" but added, "It cannot be right that clean athletes should suffer for the behavior of others."

Veteran diplomat, writer and scholar Maksoud was a strong advocate of the Palestinian cause and Arab unity.

President Obama condemned many of Donald J. Trump's ideas and urged the use of logic in politics in a commencement address on Sunday.

Season 8, which ends on Monday night, affirms the importance of "Drag Race"; the rare show that relishes honesty and exploration, and the complex realities of gay life.

The director, in Cannes with "The BFG," discusses the original author's anti-Semitism and explains why "Jaws" remains a painful memory.