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Russia’s civil aviation authority said Friday the plane crashed after being flown in a contradictory manner minutes before a second attempted landing.

Philippines has received more than $120 million in military aid from the U.S. this year, the most in about 15 years, a senior Filipino diplomat said.

The country’s government is facing widespread criticism following the massive leak, which forced Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson to quit as the prime minister.

Francis is moving the church's practice, if not dogma, regarding marriage and divorce in the same progressive direction he's taken with economic issues.

A ferry carrying 45 migrants left the Greek island of Lesbos for Turkey Friday as part of an EU deal to halt mass migration to Europe across the Aegean Sea.

Jürgen Mossack resigned this week from the honorary, unpaid post on the National Council of Foreign Relations — an informal advisory board.

Turkey was once Israel's closest regional ally, but ties collapsed in 2010 after Israeli marines killed 10 Turkish pro-Palestinian activists, who tried to breach the Gaza blockade.

Authorities have urged the public to help locate the key living suspect, who has been named as “the man with the hat.”

The agreements covered infrastructure, solar power and logistics, among other projects, signed by companies from Xinjiang with their Pakistan counterparts.

The people hardest hit by shady financial transactions mapped out in the Panama Papers may never even know they're affected.

The manuevers, which began this week, focus on the Rio de Janeiro area, where the Summer Games will be held later this year.

But despite revelations about the offshore account in leaked documents, David Cameron is adamant he’s done nothing wrong.

France and Germany pledged to continue supporting Ukraine despite a Dutch vote that created a roadblock for the country’s European Union aspirations.

With a divided opposition and no strong challenger, the leader of the African nation will extend his 17-year rule.

Authorities from South Korea, the Netherlands and the United States collaborated to take the core Soranet server offline.

Some who entered Greece illegally say they would rather kill themselves than be sent back to the Middle East.

Mexican media outlets controlled by the government allegedly have worked to portray human rights defenders as corrupt criminals.

European Union officials want to draw up a list of “noncooperative jurisdictions­” after the recent data leak that linked prominent officials to offshore accounts.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says a strong El Niño event and global warming has led to the severe drought plaguing the country’s energy grid.

The worries come following an assault on a cement factory 30 miles east of the Syrian capital city.

Russia’s fraying relations with Egypt and Turkey have hit the two countries’ important tourism sectors.

Global investigators have found 1MDB transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Najib’s personal bank accounts through intermediary entities.

Since December 2013, the spacecraft has discovered a total of 250 asteroids and comets as part of its mission to identify potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.

Pro-Palestinian students chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as the Israeli politician spoke at San Francisco State University.

Thursday marked the anniversary of the start of one of history's worst mass slaughters.

Political uncertainty plus the slowing growth rate of China’s economy and falling commodity prices are wreaking havoc on the country’s economy.

The report comes after the Indonesian defense minister said last week the country will send F-16 fighter jets to the islands to protect against “thieves.”

China’s foreign exchange reserves, which the central bank has been tapping into to shore up the yuan, rose by over $10 billion in March.

The Kremlin has taken a leading role in efforts to end the worst violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region since 1994.