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Malnourished children who faint in class. Children who, in the worst cases, die from hunger, their bodies nothing but skin and bone, their ribs clearly visible along their chests. …

If confirmed, the killing would be a major setback for the militants

Mr. Roof, the white man charged in the massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston, S.C., church, was said to have been assaulted by a black man.

There are no checks on a president's power to wage nuclear war, though history suggests that there may be ways to slow down or derail the process.

The São Paulo musician who is empowering African-Brazilian women by rapping about Brazil's history of slavery and racial division will perform Friday While many will be tuning into the Olympics opening ceremony in Rio D...

Denmark's armed forces say Danish F-16 aircraft have for the first time dropped bombs in Syria's Raqqa province where the Islamic State group has its self-declared capital. …

ABC News speaks with a refugee who managed to flee to safety with his family.

Russian diplomat in a vehicle fatally shot a gun-carrying mugger who tried to rob him as the Olympic torch was being carried past in Rio de Janeiro, ­a ­report said. Marcos Cesar Feres Braga, a Brazilian lawyer who ser...

Several districts contacted said they were reviewing the group's request

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The party, in an effort to appeal to Palestinians ahead of hotly contested elections, also claimed to have "offered 170,000 martyrs."

The Border Guard Committee of Belarus said on Friday it has detained a Turkmenistan-born Swedish man and is preparing to extradite the former journalist to Turkmenistan which he fled more than a decade ago. …

A 59-year-old man has been arrested over the sectarian murder of 10 Protestant workers at Kingsmill in Northern Ireland 40 years ago.

"I can show to my fellow refugees that they have a chance and a hope in life," one refugee athlete said.

Fairfax mayor R. Scott Silverthorne was recently arrested in a meth-for-sex sting

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump backtracks on a claim that he saw video footage of a US cash payment to Iran.

Abuse survivors and opposition politicians say the British government must make sure an inquiry into decades of child sexual abuse is not derailed by the sudden resignation of its chief. …

Britain says it will retain key parts of European Union anti-racism laws after leaving the bloc. …

A German university is ditching a seminar about young people in the Palestinian territories that faced accusations of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli content. …

Japan's Emperor Akihito will issue a rare video message on Monday amid speculation he wants to abdicate. …

Prosecutors in Virginia have won a rare conviction of a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teen suspected of shoplifting

Peru president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's first cabinet meeting involved a public workout in front of the Government Palace.