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Helen Keller once said, "I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought."

Medhanie Yehdego Mered is believed to be the head of a crime network that is responsible for bringing thousands of refugees and migrants from Africa to Europe.

A key website crashed shortly before the June 7 deadline as more than a million potential voters applied to register online, half on the final day.

The East African country faced a three-hour blackout after a monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru Power Station.

Last month, Arctic sea ice spread over an area of 4.63 million square miles — 537,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average.

Authorities are probing possible mismanagement of funds by two of the company’s former CEOs.

China’s Foreign Ministry called for an immediate stop to proceedings of a case filed by the Philippines against Beijing’s claims over the disputed South China Sea.

According to unconfirmed reports, four people were killed when police opened fire on students protesting against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.

The country’s forex reserves — the largest in the world — fell by $27.93 billion in May to $3.19 trillion, the lowest since December 2011.

The intercept, which involved two Chinese J-10 fighter planes and a U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane, was conducted Tuesday in international airspace.

The 2016 Global Peace Index showed that the world has become increasingly violent, with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high and terrorist attacks at an all-time high.

With less than two hours left to register to vote on Britain’s EU exit, dawdlers got blocked by an overloaded government website.

Meanwhile, the NATO Western military alliance is staging major exercises and increasing deployments on its eastern flank.

A U.S. assessment came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” Pyongyang has reactivated a plutonium plant.

The ultra-hardline Sunni fighters have kept a close guard on food storage in the besieged city near Baghdad that they captured in January 2014.

This year's gay pride celebration in Tel Aviv lauds “Women in the Community” who are making their presence felt in the male-dominated tech industry.

At a bilateral dialogue in Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said progress had been made, but tensions remained over the South China Sea.

Amid tensions in the South China Sea and the continuing fight against ISIS, the U.S. has deployed four aircraft-carrier strike groups.

The German military announced its first expansion since the Cold War in May of this year, including several C-130 Hercules transports.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has tried to assuage worry as polls show a tight race ahead of the June 23 Brexit vote.

Donald Trump, who has been complimentary of Vladimir Putin, is apparently the preferred choice of Russians.

The painting, which depicts a burning tyre, house and flower, appeared on the wall of Bridge Farm during the half-term holiday.

The media mogul and politician was treated for heart problems, but a party spokeswoman said there was “nothing to worry about.”

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s early impressive lead over Keiko Fujimori for the post of president has now narrowed to fewer than 60,000 votes.

Even when black holes disappear, information about all they have gobbled should not. A new study provides clues to how the data may be preserved.

After high-level Sino-U.S. talks in Beijing, China's top diplomat defended the country's right to protect its territorial sovereignty.

Late on Monday, the country’s cabinet approved the National Transformation Program — an initiative aimed at diversifying the kingdom’s economy.

Modi’s trip to the U.S. — his fourth as India’s prime minister — is likely to focus on climate change, defense pacts and forging closer economic ties.

The blast, reportedly targeting a police bus, killed 11 people near the city’s historic Beyazit Square neighborhood, a major Turkish tourist attraction.