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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.

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 …

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...

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(Reuters) - A New York lawyer who once advised Martin Shkreli was convicted on Wednesday of helping him defraud a pharmaceutical company, a charge a different jury cleared the drug executive of when it found him guilty o...

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

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...

President Vladimir Putin says Russia's actions in Syria have demonstrated the power of the nation's modernized military to the world. Speaking Thursday at a Kremlin awards ceremony for soldiers who …

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 …

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 …

Record cold temperatures in the United States will inevitably have some people refuting climate change. Here is how to respond.

Police say they also found several forged checks