Reuters

Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.

The longtime hockey star could play for the Czech Republic in 2015 after the Florida Panthers failed to make the playoffs.

The RBI has cut rates twice this year, by a total 50 basis points, in a bid to bolster economic growth.

Thousands from India's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community have faced persecution after the world's largest democracy in December 2013 reinstated a colonial-era law banning gay sex, say activists.

Tom Steyer served notice Monday that he will use his wealth to try to bring climate change into the U.S. presidential campaign, vowing to target Republican hopefuls who deny the connection between burning fossil fuels and rising global temperatures.

The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week.

At least 2,250 California sea lions, mostly pups, have turned up starving and stranded on beaches from Santa Barbara to San Diego so far this year, marking the worst such crisis yet documented for the marine mammals.

Greece's deputy finance minister said on Monday Germany owes Greece nearly 279 billion euros ($305.17 billion) in reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country.

Iraqi forensic teams began on Monday excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State militants as they swept across northern Iraq.

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Monday that a framework nuclear agreement that Iran reached with world powers last week rules out the specter of regional war.

U.S. initial public offerings by venture-backed companies fell to a two-year low in the first quarter of 2015, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka made clear his view that it was crucial for the security of the former Soviet-bloc nation to remain in lock step with NATO and the EU.

Input prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly a year, a business survey showed on Monday.

Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose personal popularity lags his party's, also saw a boost.

The Czech presidency is largely a ceremonial role but President Milos Zeman is outspoken on his views on both domestic and foreign policy.

Led by Steve Coll, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the review examined the editorial process behind the explosive story.

Novak Djokovic needed three sets to defeat Andy Murray at the 2015 Miami Open.

"We are returning the money. Either they give it to us in full or we go to arbitration or to the court."

The aid agency said it has been negotiating for nearly a week to deliver life-saving supplies and equipment to Yemen.

Gun battles and heavy shelling ripped through a downtown district in Yemen as Houthi fighters and local militias clashed Sunday.

Women and children were among the dead, who included some victims in the capital Dhaka.

The election on May 7 is set to be the tightest in Britain in decades.

In a period of less than 24 hours Italian navy and coast guard ships rescued around 1,500 migrants aboard five boats in the southern Mediterranean.

Hamam Mohamed Attia of Ajnad Misr was shot dead during a firefight around 1 a.m. local time.

Fleeing an advance by the Islamic State group a number of civilians were evacuated from a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts.

Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations as it was revealed the son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150.

More than 20 others were injured in the suicide bomb attack at a security checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata.

Residents took refuge in their homes and reported hearing blasts of rocket-propelled grenades and sporadic gunfire.

The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues.