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The hospital in the central Chinese province of Henan was partly demolished Thursday while it was still in use.

U.S. forces in South Korea were put on their highest level of alert Monday in preparation for any provocation from Pyongyang.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman was recaptured Friday, six months after he escaped out of the maximum-security Altiplano prison.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis will now head the New Democracy opposition party in parliament against the governing Syriza party.

Burundi's government views the African Union’s plan to send peacekeepers to protect civilians as an invasion.

Italian police are investigating the killing of Ashley Ann Olsen, 35, who was found dead in her apartment Saturday.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said he was won over and that France was in favor of moving on to tackling the debt issue quickly.

It is not clear who attacked the ISIS forces near Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, which has become an extremist stronghold.

Carles Puigdemont replaced Artur Mas as head of a majority separatist Catalan Parliament, which will now restart the push for a split with Spain.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up little evidence since the airliner disappeared in March 2014.

Polish authorities made allusions to World War II losses under German occupation during a debate over freedom of speech.

The sterling bond market has not yet opened this year, but investor fears that the pound is in decline.

A controversial media law enacted by Poland likely will be among the first items addressed at European Union meetings in Brussels this week.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says his country would discuss potential actions against Iran with its allies across the region and around the world.

The attacks mostly targeted women, victimized by crimes ranging from sexual molestation to theft.

Six of the strikes in Iraq were near the contested city of Ramadi, which Iraqi forces recently reclaimed from the Islamic State group.

Political leaders laid a wreath by the statue of Marianne in central Paris, which has become a shrine to French victims of terrorism in 2015.

Vietnam says China's act of flying its planes unannounced over the disputed Spratly Islands is a danger to international aviation.

"Britain joined Europe for trade and cooperation. We do not want to belong to a super state,” Prime Minister David Cameron said, on a TV show Sunday.

Labeled a terrorist group by many countries, the PKK has been fighting the Turkish government in an attempt to create an independent Kurdistan.

The Islamist militants have stepped up their violent campaign in the last year to oust the government in Kabul.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has consistently pushed for changes to the country's pacifist constitution amid a growing debate over national security.

Vehicles with automatic transmissions of all sorts could account for as much as 20 percent of the traffic-plagued Indian market by 2020.

Planned diplomatic talks have been jeopardized after an Indian air force base near the Pakistan border was attacked last week.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's critics say his administration has become more authoritarian since a military coup brought him to power.

Hila Sedighi was arrested at a Tehran airport Friday as she returned from the UAE where she lives with her husband.

The man had reportedly drawn an ISIS symbol on the wall of a German shelter for asylum seekers, where he was staying.

Several people linked to city bookshops stocking publications critical of China have gone missing over the past few months.

The move is a response to North Korea's widely doubted claim to have detonated a hydrogen bomb.