It was not immediately known if the killings were linked to the island's ongoing battle against cocaine smugglers.
The country, which borders Syria, Iraq and Iran, has been hit by four suicide bombings already this year, most recently in Istanbul last month.
If the vice president succeeds Dilma Rousseff as president, he plans to replace the leadership of both the bank and state-run lenders, an aide said.
Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten attributed the drop in Islamic State group recruits to the U.S.-led airstrike campaign.
The proposal comes following the beheading of a Canadian citizen, who was kidnapped last year from a tourist resort in the Philippines.
The number of migrants making landfall this year is dramatically higher than the number of arrivals in the first four months of 2015.
Beginning in January 2018, mobile phones must also have built-in GPS, the country's ministry of communications and technology said.
The nation’s prime minister wants to appoint a new cabinet filled with technocrats. But as Iraqis take to the streets, lawmakers have other ideas.
The order from Xiamen Air is just the latest deal in a region experiencing a boom in interest in travel.
Central and Eastern European states aren't buying Russia's talk of improving relations as more defense brigades are created.
The government has reportedly strengthened barbed wire fences, set up surveillance cameras and planted mines along parts of the border.
Twenty-three NGOs called for urgent aid to drought-ravaged Somalia, where residents are struck by the devastating effects of the current El Niño.
Iraq's secret service informed Swedish officials that some Islamic State group fighters had traveled to the Scandinavian country, a newspaper reported.
The world's worst nuclear accident forced thousands of people to abandon their homes, and the radiation afterward left them with devastating health conditions.
Support for leaving EU has reportedly increased by 2 percentage points to 43 percent in the past week.
Dialogue between the two countries had been derailed by a raid in January on an Indian army base that killed seven troops.
The doctors are protesting against the imposition of new contracts that would turn Britain’s National Health Service into a seven-day a week service.
The reclusive state has garnered criticism from world powers over a series of missile and nuclear tests this year.
A blast in the capital, Yerevan, on Monday killed two people and injured eight.
But the move to break the kingdom’s oil “addiction” has also invited renewed criticism over its poor record on human rights and gender equality.
It’s the first time ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack in Somalia, where al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab has dominated the armed conflict scene.
This month, thousands angered by President Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called for his government to fall.
The killing took place two days after a professor was slain in similar fashion in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
President Obama fears getting the U.S. more entrenched in the war in Syria, but the rise of ISIS has forced him to take an active role.
The agenda of a world conference this week in Paris shows how much about the virus remains unknown.
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday unveiled ambitious plans aimed at ending Saudi Arabia's “addiction” to oil.
Abu Sayyaf, or Bearer of the Sword, said it would behead the hostages if it did not receive a ransom of 300 million pesos (U.S. $6.4 million) each.
Eighty-three of the 100 senators signed a letter asking for an increase to the current $3 billion per year, led by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Coons.
Pope Francis holds a Jubilee Year Mass for tens of thousands of youth, urging them to shun materialism, and calls on kidnappers to release religious hostages in Syria. Diane Hodges reports.
Asked by the BBC's Huw Edwards if Obama really believed the UK would end up "at the back of the queue" when trading with the U.S., Obama smiled.
