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Wednesday’s trip to the Islamic Society of Baltimore Wednesday will mark the president’s first visit to an American mosque, but he has frequently commented on Muslims in the past.

Developing a vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus could take years, researchers have said.

In his resignation, Ukraine’s economy minister pointed to vested interests tied to the president and entrenched corruption.

The terrorist organization has been called un-Islamic, but the charge of apostasy by John Kerry carries a death sentence in several majority-Muslim countries.

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday recalled the golden days of the 1970s and expressed dismay over diminished production and plummeting prices.

There’s no Moses this time, but for Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority the mob attacks, vandalism and abductions are enough to drive them out of their homeland.

The planned changes will apply to money invested by foreigners in domestic stocks and bonds, according to a Wednesday report.

The Kremlin’s move was prompted by the combination of Western sanctions, the low price of crude oil and a slumping economy.

The region has been witnessing increasing assertion over the islands from China, with the U.S. trying to promote “freedom of navigation” amid the dispute.

Ireland will kick off election campaigns after Prime Minister Enda Kenny dissolved the parliament Wednesday.

Over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group were sentenced to death for attacking a police station and killing 13 officers in August 2013.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that imposing a ceasefire would be difficult unless Syria's border with Turkey was secured.

Japan deployed ballistic missile defense units soon after North Korea confirmed that it was preparing to launch a satellite.

The country's high court ruled that detention of asylum-seekers at offshore processing centers on Nauru Island does not violate the Australian constitution.

Users in the U.K. looking for extremist material will now be diverted to anti-radicalization links, a Google executive told British lawmakers Tuesday.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude may rise by over 50 percent by the end of the year, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Several people in Fallujah have died due to starvation and poor medical care, media reports say.

One rebel commander said opposition-held areas of the city were at risk of being encircled entirely by government forces and their allies.

Violent crime remains a pervasive worry for the nation's 29 million people, especially in poor slums run by gangs and rife with guns.

A school administrators' union in France has continued to lobby for a change to smoking bans.

Former Vice President Namadi Sambo is the latest high-profile official who served under Goodluck Jonathan to be investigated for financial misdeeds.

Officials are proposing different ways out of the situation caused by the oil crash as the government ponders a $35 billion crisis plan.

Two warplanes entered South Korean and Japanese air defense territories, causing Tokyo’s fighter jets to scramble.

The lyrics reportedly read, "There will be no panic in our hearts as long as food is not a concern and our hands are full of money."

The country’s Labor Ministry predicted that unemployment will hit 6 percent this year, as sanctions and the low price of oil take their toll.

Hernandez Garcia rose through the ranks of the cartel allegedly after starting as a bodyguard.

Developing a vaccine against the virus, which the World Health Organization has said is spreading explosively, could take years.

A new report’s findings reveal that Nigeria’s GDP could gain up to $534 billion by 2030 if corruption is addressed.

The African Union, which had said it would dispatch a peacekeeping force to Burundi, instead will send delegates to negotiate a solution.