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The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine — developed with the help of the Canadian government — was found to be effective in a trial involving over 11,800 people in Guinea.

Analysts suggest that Bashar Assad’s recapturing of Aleppo is not an indicator of peace returning to the conflict-affected region.

Nearly a third of U.S. citizens are likely to travel this holiday season, but the State Department is warning some places could pose a significant safety risk.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested April 3 on unspecified national security charges as she prepared to return to England with her 2-year-old daughter.

Congolese police have been squaring off with demonstrators since Monday when President Joseph Kabila's term expired without him stepping down.

Syrians in western Aleppo celebrated a massive tree-lighting ceremony as uncertainties plagued civilians and militants awaiting evacuation from the city's east.

A representative of the Somali Religious Council said the teachings of Allah do not permit women to “wear sports attire” or “show their body and beauty” publicly.

The "airpocalypse" in China put a number of cities on red alert for hazardous levels of smog.

North Korea is claiming the south has been persuading its ambassadors around the world to defect.

This year will see a rare coinciding of the Christian celebration of Christmas and the Jewish holiday Hanukkah.

Parts of the United States will have a white Christmas. Others will get a slick one.

Pope Francis used his annual Christmas greeting to highlight his efforts to reform the Catholic Church and denounce the hardliners who resisted.

"Religious freedom is a daily, stark choice between life and death."

The Russian president also called for the country’s military to develop missiles that can penetrate any missile-defense system.

Campi Flegrei, Europe’s only supervolcano, is showing signs of reawakening and its eruption could affect half a million people, according to a new study.

The TanSat satellite, launched on board a Long March-2D rocket on Thursday, was sent to a sun synchronous orbit roughly 435 miles from the surface of Earth.

According to German media reports, investigators searched several locations overnight, including a refugee home in Emmerich on the Dutch border.

The fifth consecutive increase in defense spending since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office is scheduled to kick in from April.

A team of Dutch researchers has created a “mini-factory” of drugs contained within artificial leaves made of materials known as luminescent solar concentrators. 

While a Turkish police officer shot dead the Russian ambassador to Turkey, U.S. authorities have arrested people with law enforcement ties accused of helping ISIS.

North Korean soldiers haven taken to sarcastically calling the outbreak of the stomach flu a "gift from Kim Jong Un."

Social media users demanded answers as to why Tumblr would not load, leading some to speculate whether enemy action was involved.

While it is now an important celebration, Hanukkah hasn’t always been seen as significant.

Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012, are seen in the video begging their governments to save them. 

Despite Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Moscow sees the incoming administration as a source of greater NATO-Russia conflict, a Kremlin spokesman said.

The man being pursued in the attack at a Berlin Christmas market is believed to have links with Salafist extremists.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the killer was a member of a group led by an exiled Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen.

Three militants suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing on Christmas Day or New Year's Eve in Indonesia were killed by police.

"The all-female crew was clueless and not trained as to how to restrain this psycho."