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Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, attributed to El Niño, a weather phenomenon that impacts rainfall patterns and temperatures around the world.

China has been building up its land claim in the South China sea, adding military-grade airstrips.

Two years after Ukraine's revolution, the next political generation is working to fight graft by going online because "you can't bribe a computer."

The techniques developed to catch major international terrorists were not made to spot home-grown terrorists like the couple that killed 14 in San Bernardino.

As Turkey calculates the economic losses it faces with Russian sanctions, the Kremlin says the ban on vegetables could be among the first lifted.

The newly elected center-right parties are expected to push for changes to the oil economy and possibly cut social spending.

A 31-year-old PhD Muslim student reportedly found a severed pig's head while preparing for daily prayers.

Activists in Chicago are asking why proven social programs to combat gangs have been underfunded in the wake of recent high-profile gang murders.

Staff at the state-run China News Service apparently switched two Chinese characters with similar pronunciations in the report, accidentally writing that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks were a “resignation,” not a “speech.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that Ukraine must combat corruption amid the Eastern European country's ongoing territorial battle with Russia.

In the wake of recent ISIS attacks that have killed more than 500 people around the world, the Department of Homeland Security will announce a new threat warning system in the next few days.

Africa's largest economy was losing about $1 billion per month due to corruption, according to Nigeria's former central bank governor.

As the U.S. has stepped up an airstrike campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria, the Dalai Lama says dialogue is the only way forward.

The British prime minister reportedly called the phrase, uttered by a bystander to the recent Leytonstone knife attack, "brilliant."

With Ukraine and Turkey both at odds with Moscow, a new military relationship has begun that could extend beyond tanks to artillery and personnel carriers.

"[It] is Cossacks who are on the front lines, protecting public order," said one of the group's leaders.

Muhaydin Mire, who reportedly yelled, "This is for Syria," was in court Monday on an attempted murder charge after allegedly stabbing three people.

The 24-page document, obtained by the Guardian, demonstrates that the Islamic State group has set out to build a viable state in the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria.

The Australian government criticized Tokyo's "deeply disappointing decision" to resume the controversial hunt, just days after a Japanese whaling fleet left for Antarctica.

A red alert is usually issued after three days of extremely high levels of air pollution.

The border province of Kermanshah has a large Sunni Kurdish population that has risen up against Tehran in the past.

Tremors of the quake were felt in neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan, and as far as northern India. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

If the airstrike is confirmed, it would be the first to hit Syrian government forces since the coalition began its bombing campaign last year.

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, speaking to a Swiss newspaper, stressed that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world.

Iraq warned it would appeal to the United Nations to force Ankara to pull out its forces from the northern part of the country.

The legislative assembly election outcome alters the balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule in a country coping with rising crime and a slowing economy.

The meeting between foreign secretaries and national security advisers of the two nations, in Bangkok, covered topics including terrorism and the disputed region of Kashmir.

The government is scheduled to release revised third-quarter GDP data Tuesday and economists expect a small expansion.

In his latest speech, the president continued using his administration's term for the terror group.