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Lured to Syria by the promise of a pure Islamic state, Mo only lasted a few months before he escaped to Turkey and asked for help at the U.S. consulate. "I've let my family down, I've let my nation down, and I've let God...

When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, takes office Friday, she will have to balance two very different sets of expectations -- from those who voted for her and a Chinese leadership that wants the island on ...

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30 bodies have been recovered so far, but at least 220 families remain unaccounted for

Michel Temer took office last week after President Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending her impeachment trial

A black woman was fatally shot on Thursday by a San Francisco police officer checking on a stolen vehicle, marking another killing for a department faced with public outrage over fatal police shootings and a federal revi...

A Georgia psychiatrist has been indicted on three counts of felony murder and 59 counts of unauthorized distribution of pain medicine prescriptions after at least 12 of his patients died of overdoses. Narendra Nagareddy,...

Police say Daniel Holtzclaw targeted his victims while patrolling neighborhoods.

India recorded its highest ever temperature on Thursday when the heat in the town of Phalodi, in the western state of Rajasthan, shot up to a burning 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

A former Toledo, Ohio firefighter and his son were arraigned Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old relative and keeping her chained up in a basement for as long as a year.

The Russian defense minister has proposed that Russia and the U.S.-led coalition launch joint action against the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in Syria. …

Members of the United Nations Security Council are urging Kenya's government not to forcibly evict refugees from a sprawling camp that is home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis

Spanish authorities say three French people were killed when the light aircraft they were flying crashed in a small northern town after reportedly colliding with a vulture

The move paves the way for the trials of several pro-Kurdish and other legislators.

NATO foreign ministers and alliance partners have agreed to extend the Resolute Support mission that trains, advises and assists Afghanistan's security forces and institutions beyond 2016. …

The military is scouring a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete.

Blake Shelton can't stop gushing over his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani.

Salah Abdeslam, the man suspected of playing a major role in the November 2015 Paris attacks, faces questioning for the first time since his extradition from Belgium last month. He arrived at the main Paris law court Fri...

Shouts of "Shame, shame, shame," erupted in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday as Republican lawmakers narrowly defeated legislation to protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employ...

Japanese police have arrested an American working on a U.S. military base in Okinawa on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman who had been missing since last month.

San Francisco's police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car -- the culmination of several racially charged incidents in the past...

Arab and Islamic nations are demanding that the United Nations remove a panel from an Israeli exhibition that calls Jerusalem "the spiritual and physical capital of the Jewish people." …