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She was detained with 1.1 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in Kuala Lumpur

Tens of thousands of women from around Asia, many of them Korean, were sent to front-line military brothels to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II

"I was thankful that it turned out the way it did," one officer said.

A woman still seeking justice for the 2005 murder of her journalist husband in Iraq is suing the FBI for documents related to the investigation so she can go after the Iranian government. Lisa Ramaci is involved in three...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the cash-strapped country has picked an oil field to back its proposed digital currency called the petro. Maduro's comments Wednesday on the proposed cryptocurrency shed …

Consent given to turn reactors at the massive Kashiwazaki-kariwa plant back on, but Japanese worry over active fault lines and mismanagement If a single structure can define a community, for the 90,000 residents of Kashi...

Witnesses say the youth kicked doors and went the wrong way on escalators

A flurry of bombings in Kabul killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, Afghan authorities said. The attacks started when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest inside a Shiite cultural center...

Watch for signs of hypothermia, including lethargy, blue skin or lips and disinterest in food.        

307 prisoners were swapped, the largest exchange since fighting began and a sign of progress toward 2015 peace deal

In the wake of the signing of the new tax plan into law, there's been a flurry of activity as people in high-tax states rush to prepay property taxes for 2018. But it might not be such a helpful tax move. Here's why.

The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen says Saudi-led airstrikes have killed 109 civilians over the past 10 days. Jamie McGoldrick said Thursday that those killed include at least 54 in …

A Russian TV presenter was shot dead by her estranged husband as the couple's nine-year-old son watched. Zhanna Veber, 29, was reportedly gunned down by her husband Anatoly Leontikov. Local media reported that she was ki...

French local authorities have opened an investigation after a Polish sailor claimed his boat drifted for seven months on the Indian Ocean before being rescued off the French island of …

The Alabama secretary of state said Thursday he will certify Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of a Senate race despite an eleventh-hour lawsuit filed by Republican Roy Moore claiming that election fraud affected the “...

ISTANBUL — Turkish police detained 38 people, some of them Syrian citizens, over suspected links to Islamic State in an operation on Thursday in the northwestern province of Bursa, the state-run Anadolu news agency sai...

MOSUL, Iraq -- For nearly 2½ miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul's Old City is a crumpled landscape of broken concrete and metal. E...

(Reuters) - Brazil's top prosecutor has launched a legal challenge against pardons made by President Michel Temer just before Christmas, alleging they are unconstitutional and threaten the Car Wash probe into the country...

Just 286 people have been murdered in New York City in 2017, putting the Big Apple on track to have its lowest number of homicides since good recordkeeping began, The New York Times reports. The number represents an asto...

GENEVA – A Muslim indigenous community in the southern Philippines has suffered widespread human right abuses that could intensify with President Rodrigo Duterte's extension of martial law there, U.N.-appointed experts...

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Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says people have been detained following protests in a major city over price hikes. The report Thursday quotes the governor of the northeastern city of …