U.S. special envoy Thomas Pierriello said there are “credible reports” that Rwanda is recruiting and training Burundian rebels.
The NATO ships will conduct “reconnaissance, monitoring and surveillance” in the region that has, over the past year, become a hotbed of human trafficking.
Sweden’s central bank surprised investors with the extent of the cut and said it was prepared to further ease monetary policy.
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China, which lays claim to most of the South China Sea, said Thursday that interference from countries outside the region threatens peace and stability.
With those injured in the conflict, that amounts to more than 11 percent of the population, the Guardian reported.
A spokesman for the U.S. defense ministry said Wednesday that Russia conducted an attack on two hospitals in Syria's largest city.
North Korea reportedly vowed to deport all South Korean nationals and freeze Seoul’s assets and equipment at the facility.
The Zika virus has an unproved but strongly suspected link with microcephaly, a birth defect that leads to abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains in babies.
Officials have little hope that any of the crew would be found alive.
No deaths have been reported yet in the accident that occurred after a train derailed and collided with a concrete barrier.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been indicted in Brooklyn as well as in Chicago, New York, Miami and other locations where his cocaine ring is believed to be active.
A report by Yonhap described it as the strongest set of sanctions ever proposed against the Kim Jong Un regime.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday that it has stepped up humanitarian aid in the Syrian province.
The attack occurred 50 miles outside the capital of Borno state, center of the jihadist Boko Haram insurgency, officials said.
"Only air support and airstrikes break the Taliban," said an Afghan army officer in Kandahar, site of fierce fighting in recent months.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will seek an accord Thursday when officials from Russia, the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Iran gather in Munich.
The regime of Syrian leader Bashar Assad is determined to take the city back from the rebels.
The virus was found in the brain tissue of four babies in Brazil who were either miscarried or died shortly after birth.
It's been almost a year since Boko Haram's leader was last seen, and the lack of intelligence on his whereabouts is deemed by some to be a military failure.
The deep-tow sonar vehicle is being examined for damage and could soon return to the Fugro Discovery.
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Poland could all see an addition of up to 1,000 troops, as NATO attempts to deter Russian aggression in the region.
The report comes amid heightened tensions in Europe over the influx of refugees.
While visiting Mexico, Pope Francis is expected to express solidarity with migrants looking to head into the U.S.
Russia's 2002 application to the U.N. to widen its control of the polar region was rejected, but now the Kremlin is trying again.
The Islamic State group has recruited thousands of people from Russia and its neighbors.
“The longer they remain trapped the slimmer the chances of them being found alive,” a union leader in South Africa said.
As an increasing number of French Jews have moved to Israel amid growing anti-Semitism, some rabbis and scholars have taken a stand.
Violence against areas where asylum-seekers have been staying spiked in 2015.
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