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Melor made landfall in Samar, central Philippines, one of the two islands worst-hit by typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

The 17-year-old was arrested in May for planning a terrorist act earlier this year.

President Jacob Zuma abruptly changes course after the stock market panicked at his Cabinet choice.

In the first Saudi election to allow female participation, 17 women were voted into public office in municipal elections.

"It is time for the world to free itself of the strictures of Doha," says the top American trade official, Michael Froman.

Casualties, if any, in the air raid are unknown, but violence on the ground continues.

A Sicilian Mafia family ran elections for a new mob boss, details of an investigation just released indicate.

The extremist organization, which has inspired or directed attacks in six countries in recent months, has reportedly lost about 20,000 people to airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

Impeachment proceedings have begun in Congress, but the turnout in opposition demonstrations has fallen.

Official election results put Nicolas Sarkozy’s center-right Les Républicains party ahead with 40.2 percent of nationwide votes.

Der Spiegel reported Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had sent a letter asking for a bigger military contribution from Germany.

The German chancellor now speaks of "drastically decreasing" the influx as her party meets, fearing losses in coming elections.

Despite spending 14 years as a prisoner of the U.S., Shaker Aamer's first interviews focused on condemning extremists.

Clashes in the Central African nation have escalated over the president's bid to get a third term.

World leaders will have to balance domestic concerns and global realities in order to implement the agreement's key provisions.

The country's Assembly of Experts would be open to choosing a council of leaders instead of a single ayatollah, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says.

Seven members of a Shiite Muslim sect in Nigeria were reportedly killed after they attempted to block a convoy carrying the army chief of staff in the northern city of Zaria.

Colombia's attorney general says his office is investigating 150 cases involving former rebel fighters who have claimed they had forced abortions.

Despite its membership to the European Union, Lithuania imports 75 percent of its electricity from Russia.

There's little hope of rebel unity without including significant groups on the ground, negotiations in Riyadh reveal.

The incident is likely to heighten tensions between the two countries, which are at odds over Syria and the Turkish shooting down of a Russian military jet last month.

The U.N. has been negotiating for a year to get Libya's two rival governments and other parties to end their war and focus on curbing the influence of the Islamic State group.

At least five people were wounded in the capital city of Bangui Sunday, as polling stations opened for a crucial vote on a new constitution.

The bombings came a day before a U.N.-brokered ceasefire is set to begin before peace talks are conducted in an effort to end the eight-month-long war.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, which targeted a Shiite-dominated section of the country's northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

In the June 26 bombing, a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself inside a mosque, killing 27 people.

Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi was elected Sunday to the council in Madrakah, an area in the city of Mecca, according to local media reports.

Leaders of almost 200 countries OK'd the pact that aims to hold the global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Authorities believe that a wiring malfunction could have caused the tragedy that killed at 21 people and injured nearly two dozen.