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The Republican-led House voted convincingly Wednesday to approve a $602 billion defense policy bill after rejecting attempts by Democrats to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to repeal the war pow...

Powerful earthquakes rock Ecuador, causing at least one death and injuring dozens, a month after an earthquake that left hundreds dad

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69 people were onboard the Cairo-bound flight from Paris.

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My neighbor Lisa's minivan, a pearly blue 2008 Chrysler Town & Country, has a hundred and eighty-four thousand miles on it, reflecting the fact that in a car-centric city like Austin, Texas, to be a parent is also to be ...

The 13-year-old boy sits on a mat in a darkened hut not far from Leer Town in South Sudan, his skeletal knees pressed against his ears, and tells the story of what happened to him and more than 50 other men one day late ...

A container filled with nails injured one person as it exploded Thursday after being found on a city bus in the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, officials said. …

The Israeli military says a Palestinian prisoner who ended a 94-day hunger strike in February has been released to his home in the West Bank. …

NATO is expanding for only the seventh time in history

EgyptAir flight disappears from radar with 66 aboard.

1st Chibok teenager to escape from Boko Haram has been flown to Nigeria's capital where she is expected to be feted by the president

A regional government in Spain has outlawed the killing of bulls at town festivals in a measure that likely will stop the animals being speared to death at one of the country's goriest summer events

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Delegates at the church's quadrennial conference narrowly voted to allow bishops to appoint a commission to re-evaluate teachings on homosexuality.

FC Barcelona has raised the banner of Catalan pride for more than a century.

Congo's leading opposition candidate is being charged with recruiting mercenaries according to an announcement made on state television. …

Police have arrested an American working on a U.S. military base in Okinawa on suspicion of abandoning a body believed to be that of a missing woman. …

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Donald Trump pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton, in a battle between the two likely presidential nominees, a poll showed Wednesday night. The Manhattan real estate tycoon led the former secretary of state 45 percent to 42 p...

Children in China as young as six are being pushed to the breaking point in sports academies in the hope that they will achieve Olympic glory. Shocking photos show young girls crying during gruelling gymnastics training ...

The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which disappeared early Thursday (all times local): 3 p.m. The head of Russia's top domestic security …