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China has formally arrested the popular head of a village who won a rare open election in 2012 following a standoff with the ruling Communist Party. …

There is the proposition that we must choose the lesser-evil in 2016. Yes, both are bad. We must now prepare to never allow this again.

France's top court has ruled that International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde must stand trial in France over a 2008 arbitration ruling that handed 400 million euros to a politically-connected business magnate. �...

The heavily guarded event comes against a backdrop of deep divisions in Israel between its secular majority and ultra-Orthodox camps

Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, promising to restore “law and order” to the United States and the world. “We will be a country of generosity and warmth,” he said. “But ...

Prosecutors say they have formally charged a German man with murder in the slaying of an 11-year-old girl on New Year's Day. …

A Dutch court has convicted four men in absentia for travelling to Syria to join extremists, including the Islamic State group, and sentenced them to six years in prison. …

An opposition activist group and a Kurdish official say fighting is taking place in a northern Syrian town held by the Islamic State group after the militants did not respond to an offer to withdraw from the encircled to...

French President Francois Hollande announced new help Friday for Iraq's military in fighting Islamic State extremists, trying to show his government is taking action amid criticism that there weren't enough police protec...

Two steps forward, one step back

It pays to be careful when you're burning an American flag. "You're on fire! You're on fire, stupid!" a cop could be heard yelling when a protester outside the convention hall tried to ignite Old Glory and his pants leg ...

Demonstrations of outside the Republican National Convention spilled into the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Thursday night during Donald Trump's presidential acceptance speech.

Here's the thing about Pokémon Go: Despite heaps of alarmist news stories and think pieces, Pokémon Go is at the end of the day just a game, if an absorbing one. Sure, your kid may be addicted to it. That actually may ...

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The 2016 election has become so unbearable that one woman’s obituary says it killed her. Elene Meyer Davis died last month. The cause of death, according to her obituary in the Houston Chronicle, was “complications ...

Republican foreign policy veterans and outside experts warned that the suggestion by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that he might abandon NATO’s pledge to automatically defend all alliance members could d...

Pro-government militia and Tuareg rebels clash in northern town of Kidal, raising fears for a fraying peace agreement.

The president of Armenia has called on the gunmen holding hostages in a police station to lay down arms and release the police officers they're holding. …

Pakistan's prime minister has pledged an "era of development" in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after his party won 31 of 41 seats in the local legislative assembly. …

Swiss authorities have seized three paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh following a U.S. request as part of a probe into the scandal surrounding the Malaysian wealth fund 1MDB. …

A Palestinian boy who was seriously wounded in a firebomb attack last year that killed the rest of his family has been released from an Israeli hospital and returned home to the West Bank. …

The suit against county officials says the woman was beaten by an inmate, punched by a guard and accidentally classified as a sexual assault suspect in the Harris County Jail.