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Despite rubber bullets and tear gas used on migrants being deemed nonlethal, their frequent deployment has resulted in severe injuries and even death.

Seven highlights from the Russian president’s annual, and highly stage-managed, question-and-answer session.

The United Nations has been banking on an improvement in the humanitarian situation after a partial truce brokered by Russia and the U.S.

As its economy and population expand, Asia’s third-biggest economy could soon replace China as the main driver of global demand for petroleum.

For Malawi residents, however, the declaration seems too little too late.

The 6.9-magnitude quake reportedly cracked a few pagodas but did not cause any deaths.

At least one aftershock was reported following the magnitude-6.4 temblor.

New research reveals that in 1917, an astronomer detected an exoplanet orbiting the van Maanen’s star — a white dwarf located nearly 14 light-years from Earth.

Politicians cited a series of regional threats, including Iran’s missile program, as an impetus for the move.

The Russian president was answering questions from Russian citizens — about 2.5 million questions were submitted — during an annual call-in show Thursday.

Will a recent Cabinet reshuffle — as the military is still battling for territory taken by ISIS — improve the chaotic nature of the country’s contested oil and gas sectors?

Some of the Nigerian students abducted April 14, 2014, escaped from their captors. But what happened to the remaining 219 remains a mystery.

Russian authorities insisted the maneuvers were routine.

Mohamed Abrini reportedly said that departure areas for flights to U.S., Russia and Israel were targeted in the attack on Brussels airport.

The drills were performed by 5,500 U.S. and Philippine soldiers amid a growing territorial dispute, and China’s assertiveness, in the region.

In the three-month period ending March 31, the world’s second-largest economy is estimated to have grown at a relatively sluggish pace of 6.7 percent.

Authorities reported that 46 people were killed in clashes between Philippine troops and Islamic rebels this week, as fighting entered its sixth day Thursday.

Presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman’s appointment could end months of political infighting that has stalled efforts to tackle graft and delayed billions of dollars in foreign loans.

North Korea said that South Korea “cooked up” the report about 13 workers defecting to Seoul and warned of serious consequences if they were not returned immediately.

Health officials vowed to put in place tighter restrictions on the private market and build a strategy to ban all sales, transport and distribution of vaccines without permits.

The unexpected move by the central bank of the trade-dependent economy triggered the worst fall in its currency in recent months.

Panamanian officials seized various digital files in a recent 27-hour raid at Mossack Fonseca’s offices.

Low inflation and the prospect of Britain’s exit from the European Union were factors in the BoE’s decision, which was widely expected.

Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately crashed the plane last year, trained at the Airline Training Center of Arizona.

Most workers were asleep at the time of the incident in Dongguan city in Guandong province Wednesday.

For the first time in United Nations history, candidates for secretary-general are publicly presenting their visions and taking questions from the public.

The U.S. military said two warplanes, which also flew near the destroyer in the Baltic Sea a day earlier, were so close they created wake in the water.

The police patrol public spaces to enforce prayer time store closures, and bans on alcohol, music and the mixing of unrelated men and women.

While the Wednesday earthquake carried considerable strength, there were no immediate indications of deaths or reports of damaged buildings.