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Families of crash victims are reportedly planning a lawsuit in the U.S. where Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, trained its pilots.

Niger and Benin in West Africa held presidential runoff polls Sunday, while the Republic of Congo in Central Africa held its first round of voting.

After being greeted enthusiastically during the first visit to Cuba by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years, Obama said his trip so far has been “humbling.­”

The country has seen growing attacks in both its capital city of Ankara and its major cultural and financial hub, Istanbul.

HD 20782, located nearly 117 light-years from Earth, has an eccentricity of 0.96, meaning its orbit is a nearly flat ellipse.

Central bank director Tony Volpon is one of two dissenting directors who have voted in recent months for an increase in benchmark interest rates.

The Beijing-based distributor of kung fu movie “Ip Man 3” is accused of faking more than 7,000 screenings to boost its ranking.

An unprecedented rise in ocean temperatures and acidity, caused, to a large extent, by human-induced climate change, has triggered the death of large chunks of corals in the region.

Former British High Commissioner to Nigeria Andrew Pocock said the U.K. and U.S. located about 80 of the Chibok schoolgirls, but a rescue mission was deemed too risky.

Doctors Without Borders warned Monday that the accord would put vulnerable populations at greater higher risk of exploitation, injury and death.

Moscow warned Monday it would begin the use of force against ceasefire violations in Syria unilaterally if the U.S. refuses to coordinate rules of engagement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Russia is interested in Cuba maintaining good relations with all its neighbors, especially with the U.S.

Try celebrating by writing an acrostic or watching a slam poetry performance online.

Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine in June 2014, was charged with directing mortar fire that killed two Russian journalists.

Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with the Chinese propaganda chief was praised by the country's official media.

Two armed British ships arrived at the eastern Japanese coastal village of Tokai Monday to carry nearly 730 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to the U.S.

Kim Jong Un’s regime had threatened more missile launches and nuclear tests after the U.N. Security Council voted to place sanctions against the country.

Jia Jia, a frequent commentator on political and social affairs, was reported missing last week just before he was scheduled to board a flight to Hong Kong.

Authorities identified another of Salah Abdeslam's accomplices as Najim Laachraoui, a 24-year old also known as Soufiane Kayal.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told a pro-Israel lobbying group that settlement expansion “is eroding in my view the prospect of a two-state solution.”

President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba Sunday to “engage directly with the Cuban people and to forge new agreements and commercial deals, and build new ties” between the two countries.

Until now, the service was allowed to offer its Cuban listings only to travelers from the U.S.

Berta Cáceres’ daughter and nephew head to Washington this week to call for a rigorous murder inquiry into the death of the prominent indigenous and environmental rights campaigner.

The leading member of Brazil’s ruling coalition said it could not rally the votes needed to stop President Dilma Rousseff’s dismissal.

Iran will need approximately $500 billion to modernize its infrastructure after years of economic sanctions.

President Obama arrived in Cuba Sunday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the island in 88 years.

News of the deployment surfaced one day after a U.S. soldier was killed by indirect fire in a rocket attack in northern Iraq.

Investigators have started their examination of what caused the crash of Flydubai flight FZ981, which killed all 62 people onboard.

“I cannot let this pass,” the lawyer for Salah Abdeslam said Sunday, insisting his client's confidentiality had been violated.