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The funds will reportedly go toward repairing United Nations shelters and schools for the refugees.

The strict reforms would make it difficult for asylum-seekers to obtain permanent residency and citizenship in Australia, a leaked official document stated.

The Zika virus has so far been reported in at least 26 countries in the Americas and Brazil has been the hardest-hit with 3,530 cases.

The U.S. government would also commit $33 million to a global program to help the country remove land mines in the next five years.

U.S. officials cited factors such as battlefield casualties and desertions to explain a roughly 20 percent decrease in fighters.

Investigators suspect the man was able to use the wheelchair to bypass security screeners at a Mogadishu airport.

The Turkish government accused Russian airstrikes of derailing the first peace talks held in two years about the war in Syria.

In a vote Thursday, the multinational body unanimously labeled the terror group's targeting of Christians and Yazidis as a war crime.

The 12 nations of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership need to agree to an official text before one of the largest trade deals ever can be implemented.

The T-50 jet, which is due to be launched for full production at the end of 2016, will carry lethal cruise missiles capable of Mach 4 speeds.

Formerly excluded, Syrian women are joining men in the front line of search and rescue operations on the crumbling, war-torn streets of their country.

The WikiLeaks founder has been staying in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-crime charges.

A London event aimed at raising funds for millions of Syrian refugees began Thursday, just two days after peace talks on the conflict collapsed.

Following the resignation of the country's economics minister, it remains unclear if Western partners will continue economic support tied to reforms.

In a rare acknowledgement of abuse of power, the state-controlled North Korean media reported on a high-level meeting aimed at addressing rampant malfeasance.

The body of Giulio Regeni, which reportedly bore signs of torture, was found in a ditch in the suburbs near the Egyptian capital late Wednesday.

The discovery of colder-than-expected dust grains in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star could force scientists to reassess how planets form and evolve.

China is set to build a naval base that will raise the tiny African nation’s caliber as a global shipping hub and a logistics center for foreign military.

Thousands of workers, professionals, farmers and pensioners gathered in Athens to protest pension reforms that are a prerequisite for Greece’s third bailout.

Germany saw more than 1 million refugees from war-torn regions in the Middle East and Africa arrive in the country last year.

Fears about an attack on German soil have risen since deadly bombings and shootings in Paris in November.

A 21-year-old woman was assaulted and allegedly stripped by a mob in Bangalore, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

The new propaganda video from the Islamic State group boasted of causing “fear and panic” in the West, and called for new recruits.

A ruling by the country's high court has paved the way for the deportation of over 250 asylum-seekers to an offshore immigration camp.

A raft of new investments was announced in the southern state of Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bangalore, by industrialists and the federal government Wednesday.

The WikiLeaks founder said earlier he will accept arrest if the panel investigating his case does not say he is being illegally detained in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

North Korea told U.N. agencies Tuesday it plans to launch a satellite as early as next week, a move that could advance its long-range missile technology.

The nation's leaders often use the New Year holiday time to make inspection trips and flag important policy initiatives.

The planned donation came ahead of a conference that the United Nations hopes will raise more than $7 billion for Syria this year alone.