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BAGHDAD – Fewer than 1,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hardline Sunni militant group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure on...

SEATTLE -- Authorities say a wrapped present that turned out to be a fruitcake temporarily halted service at a Seattle ferry terminal while police investigated. Washington State Patrol Trooper Kevin Fortino says troopers...

First Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist, was blocked from running for president. Then he was warned not to organize a boycott of the election.

A Florida man was arrested Friday after he reportedly punched an ATM because it "was giving him too much money" during an incident in November. Michael Joseph Oleksik, 23, was charged with criminal mischief after Wells F...

Mike Flynn’s younger brother told President Trump it’s “about time” he pardoned “General Flynn” -- in a tweet he sent to the president and deleted minutes later. Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump’s ex-nati...

Not only have they trashed the mayor's Christmas well wishes but also have given the tourism mecca more than 1,400 one-star ratings on Facebook.        

Russia offered to facilitate U.S.-North Korea talks, if both sides are ready

YANGON — Two Reuters journalists who have been detained in Myanmar for the past two weeks were remanded in custody for a further two weeks on Wednesday as a probe continues into allegations they breached the nation's O...

The deputy stomped to break through the ice and work his way deeper, pounding with his hands and fists

Israel's transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan

Five children were invited to interact with the penguins at Harbin Polarland theme park.

Virginia election officials postponed a dramatic drawing from a bowl to determine the winner of a House of Delegates seat — and the balance of power in the chamber — after the Democratic candidate said she would chal...

Year defined by the breaking of age-old conventions ends with uncertainty over fallout of Trump Jerusalem move.

A Texas dad said he discovered his teen having sex with a teacher in the back seat of a car, police said. Rachel Gonzalez, 44, was nabbed by Bay City police on Dec. 22 for allegedly having a relationship with a 13-year-o...

Yehya Mubarak speaks to Al Jazeera about his daily struggles working as a paramedic in the occupied West Bank.

Authorities in Toledo, Ohio, have charged four boys with murder after a sandbag they allegedly dropped from an interstate overpass killed a passenger in a car.

American Airlines has apologized to two black professional basketball players who were kicked off a plane in Dallas after a flight attendant accused them of stealing blankets. Airline spokesman Joshua Freed said Tuesday ...

A prosecutor says some 1,000 people could be released from jail after being falsely accused of links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Uganda's military says its forces have killed over 100 rebels in eastern Congo accused of carrying out the attack that left 15 U.N. peacekeepers dead earlier this month. The military …

German prosecutors have charged an alleged member of the Islamic State group who spent time in Syria with membership in a terrorist organization and committing a war crime.

TOKYO – Japanese police said on Wednesday they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter froze to death in a tiny room where they had confined her for years because they believed she had a form of mental illnes...

Israel is poised to reward President Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as its capital - by naming a train station near the Western Wall after him, according to reports. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz is going full st...