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Despite claims from the Islamic State group, police suspect a local militant group to be behind the hacking death of Jogeshwar Roy.

A big reason for manufacturers’ lack of confidence: exports, which a report last week showed fell 13 percent in January, dragged by an 18 percent decline in sales to China.

The Junior Doctors Committee is planning escalating strikes in response to a new government contract.

Evo Morales had sought to change the constitution to allow him to run for re-election in 2019.

Voters across Iran will head to the polls on Feb. 26, and the current government can’t be reassured by their anger over the country’s anemic economy.

Peruvian presidential hopefuls Keiko Fujimori and Julio Guzmán appear to be statistically tied, assuming both make it to a runoff in June, according to a new poll.

The Pacific island nation began a massive cleanup Monday following a powerful storm that arrived late Saturday.

A group of 20 to 30 people cheered — and some disrupted firefighters — as a planned refugee shelter in Saxony burned.

Since October, Israeli security forces have killed at least 168 Palestinians, 111 of whom Israel says were assailants, while most others were fatally shot during violent anti-Israeli protests.

In Myanmar, one of the world’s largest suppliers of opium, police are preventing Christian anti-drug crusaders from destroying poppy fields.

Depending on the outcome of a vote Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales, a self-described socialist, could stay in power until 2025.

Conservative Party politician Boris Johnson announced Sunday he would support the campaign seeking a British exit from the European Union.

The U.S. was prepared to abandon its demand that North Korea reduce its nuclear arsenal before the beginning of talks that could have formally concluded the Korean War.

The Islamic State group unit in Libya could be a more serious threat to Europe than are the organization’s branches in either Iraq or Syria.

A wave of militant violence has rolled over Bangladesh in recent months, including a series of bombings at Hindu temples and Muslim mosques.

Deadly protests centered on caste benefits have cut off one of the Indian capital’s key water sources.

The attacks outside the Syrian capital Damascus came hours after deadly explosions in the city of Homs.

Manuel Roxas, the administration-backed candidate who is lagging in fourth place in opinion polls, led the attacks on his competition.

The material is owned by Istanbul-based SGS Turkey, according to the document and officials.

As the Russian Ministry of Justice begins dissolving nongovernmental organizations, human rights defenders who continue their work are left in precarious positions.

Kerry said Sunday that he anticipated Obama and Putin would soon complete the provisional agreement in principle.

At least 46 people were killed Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the central Syrian city of Homs in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said.

President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a second term with a promise to crush militants and develop the economy in one of the poorest countries in the world.

The Australian government warned Sunday that terrorists may be planning attacks in and around the Malaysian capital.

Widespread protests in the northern state of Haryana severely hit water supplies to the national capital and forced factories to close Sunday.

The cause of the crash was not made public but the military also ruled out ground fire as a suspected factor.

Okinawa was the site of Japan's only land battles in World War II and many residents there resent the fact that it hosts tens of thousands of U.S. troops and military.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has defended the policy even as the country's benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbled 10 percent since the central bank's surprise move.

More than 1,200 people were reportedly caught for getting through in the first 20 days of February, up from 550 in January.