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China's cabinet has issued a new climate plan targeting an 18-percent cut in carbon emissions by 2020 compared to 2015 levels.

African nations are seeking to initially suspend and then get rid of the first U.N. independent expert charged with investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. …

Donald Trump is pursuing an aggressive multistate strategy in the final days of the presidential race, while Hillary Clinton has fallen back on a conservative course as she attempts to lock down traditionally safe Democr...

Armed group fighting Turkish troops in Iraq says it was behind blast near police station in Diyarbakir that killed nine.

WASHINGTON -- Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledge...

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio police officer has been fired after an internal investigation determined he tried to give a homeless man a sandwich with feces inside it. Police Chief William McManus said in a statement Frid...

One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 was found Saturday by the Nigerian army, the army said.

Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced at least 40,000 angry protesters demanding her resignation in Seoul on Saturday. Park is accused of giving an old friend, Choi Soon-sil, undue influence in state affai...

With luck the US presidential election results will be decisive on November 8. There will be a clear winner and no election disputes will emerge. Yet as the polls tighten nationally and in critical swing states there are...

POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate.

At least two children killed and four wounded in an explosion officials blame on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party.

Barack Obama finally fulfilled Bill Maher’s long-held wish: He appeared on the comedian’s “Real Time” show while he’s still president of the United States. The interview, which was taped in the White House on W...

France's defense ministry says a French soldier was fatally injured in an attack in northern Mali after a mine was detonated at his passing armored vehicle during a supply mission. …

A federal judge ordered three North Carolina counties to restore thousands of voter registrations canceled too close to Election Day

One photographer's account of the offensive to retake the Iraqi city from ISIS

Philippine police killed a town mayor in his jail cell Saturday in a purported gunbattle with officers, the second killing in a week of a politician linked to illegal drugs …

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has canceled a visit to Australia after a massive rally in the capital by Muslim hard-liners descended into violence, leaving one dead and 12 injured. …

She was the secret power behind the South Korean throne, the first allegations said, a mysterious woman whose influence reached deep into the presidential mansion and guided many of the …

Robert Satiacum says he's at odds with her views on the environment.

A federal judge, rejecting a challenge by Republican operatives, prohibited three counties from revoking registrations just before the presidential election.

The Kremlin has signaled that Donald Trump is its preferred candidate, but not just because he has praised Putin

Eleven years ago this August I was deployed in Iraq with the Lima Company combat unit, and recently, I reunited with my fellow Marines to commemorate the anniversary. Looking around, I was taken by how many of them are s...