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One conservation group warns that the move shows "a troubling disregard for international rule".

President insists government employees have told him: "Stay out until you get the funding for the wall."

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is here to throw some belated coal into President Trump's stocking. In a lengthy monologue at the top of the post-Christmas episode of Morning Joe, Scarborough went off on a tirade against Trump, ...

About two dozen plainclothes police are stationed outside a courthouse in northern China as the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer was expected to unfold. Reporters, foreign diplomats and …

Border ceremony could lead to the reopening of road and train links between the two countries, officials hope North and South Korea have held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony they hope will lead to the resumption of ro...

The seven-year-old spoke after the US president threw doubt on the existence of Santa Claus.

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean officials have traveled to North Korea by train to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for an aspirational project to modernize North Korean railways and roads and connect them with the So...

More than 3,000 people treated at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, are being urged to get blood tests after inspectors discovered equipment was not being properly sterilized. Officials believe t...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from the hospital five days after being treated for lung cancer, CNN reports. According to the Court, Ginsburg was discharged on Christmas Day and is now at hom...

Albania's government says it has fulfilled the demands of public university students, who boycotted classes for more than two weeks this month. A statement Wednesday said the Cabinet held an …

New Jersey's Buena Regional Board of Education announced an emergency school board meeting to discuss what it says are personnel matters after the video of one of its students went viral.

Palestinian police have barred the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament from entering the West Bank city of Ramallah. Speaker Aziz Dweik had been set to hold a press conference …

US Customs and Border Protection will perform medical checks on all children in its custody following the death of a second child from Guatemala in an immigration detention center this month. CBP Commissioner Kevin K. Mc...

Japan announced Wednesday it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume hunting the animals for commercial use but said it will no longer go to the Antarctic for its …

The desperate search continues Wednesday for survivors of a tsunami which struck parts of western Indonesia, as the country marks the 14-year anniversary of its 2004 Sumatra tragedy -- one of the most devastating ever re...

Japan is to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling from July, it announced on Wednesday, abandoning a decades-old campaign to persuade the commission to allow it to hunt wh...

Bangladesh's main opposition alliance on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the chief election commissioner, accusing him of bias, ahead of Sunday's elections while violence worsens, officials and news reports said. …...

Global stock markets headed into the year-end under a heavy cloud after another rout this week as U.S. political uncertainty added to heightened concerns over slowing global economic growth.

Indonesian authorities asked people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions were being monitored for tsunami risks. A tsunami that followed an …

A field overlooking the Sunda Strait full of tsunami debris has become an unlikely spot for tourist photos Solihat and her three friends had everything sorted for their perfect selfie, ready to be taken by the beach in I...

A high-profile Chinese human rights lawyer detained more than three years ago is facing trial Wednesday, the latest prominent detainee sent to court by the ruling Communist Party over the Christmas period.