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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the continuous bombings targeting hospitals “war crimes,” and remarked that the Syrian city had become worse than a “slaughterhouse.”

The deliberations coincide with Secretary of State John Kerry threatening to halt diplomacy with Russia on Syria and holding Moscow responsible for dropping incendiary bombs on rebel areas of Aleppo.

President His Highness Sheik Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued a new law in Abu Dhabi that gives working women three months paid maternity leave.

The two nations have engaged in military conflict four times since 1947.

European authorities arrested Wednesday five people suspected of forming an "active and dangerous" Islamic State cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany.

According to Europol, the European Union’s (EU) law enforcement agency, there is a rise in online sexual abuse.

Recent relocation progress casts a shadow of doubt over the likelihood that the EU’s expectations are realistic.

The Catholic Church is struggling to cope with the increased demand for exorcists.

Only one of the two vessels involved in sweeping the Indian Ocean for wreckage was actually out on the water this week.

The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team said it was still unclear if the Ukrainian rebels acted independently or were ordered to shoot the plane down.

Last Friday, Britain’s Sun and Daily Mail newspapers said that an anonymous seller got in touch with them to sell the photos for $65,000.

The company's defective airbags have been linked to at least 14 deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide.

Women living in poverty are especially prone to violence, according to a new report.

In September, when atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are usually at their lowest levels, they remained stubbornly above the symbolic “red line” of 400 ppm.

Mount Barujari erupted without warning late Tuesday afternoon sending columns of ash and smoke 1.2 miles up in the air above one of Indonesia's most popular hiking destinations.

The South Korean military reportedly found five instances last month where North Korean unmanned aerial vehicles crossed the military demarcation line.

The group used social media to glorify and spread its message, according to officials.

If the laws of physics are “time reversible,” why do we perceive that time flows from the past to the future, and not the other way around?

The Americas became the first region in the world to be declared free of endemic measles — a highly contagious disease — by the World Health Organization.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after the signing of a major peace deal between leftist guerrillas and the Colombian government.

The former Israeli president was one of the country's founding fathers and a key architect of the Oslo Accords for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

The settlement with RBS brings the U.S. regulator’s recoveries against various banks to $4.3 billion in lawsuits over their sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis.

The superpower says the Nordic nation's claim of bombers flying too close to a commercial flight are false.

The baby was born with the help of U.S. doctors in Mexico.

Inmates at a “substandard” prison in the U.K. find it is easier to gain access to drugs than necessities.

Beijing called U.S. sanctions of a Chinese industrial machinery firm accused of aiding North Korean nuclear efforts a legal overreach.

The worst conditions are expected to hit China Wednesday.

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information also asked the California tech giant to delete all the data it has collected from WhatsApp so far.

Media have focused in the past on food and beverage expenses at the Israeli prime minister's official and private homes.