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Sparks from low-hanging electric cables reportedly set fire to stall umbrellas then set ablaze stacks of used clothing sold at the market.

The European Union and Japan have circulated a draft resolution at the United Nations in an effort to have North Korea haled before the International Criminal Court.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister also accused Iran of smuggling arms into the country.

After Washington's announcement it would deploy ground troops in Syria, Moscow stressed the need for U.S.-Russia cooperation in the region.

Utah legalized the use of firing squad in May as backup if lethal injections were not available.

An investigation is currently on to figure out the cause of the collapse which occurred Friday in the country's central Henan province.

New Yorker Paul Singer decides to support the Florida senator for president, much to the chagrin of Republican rivals Jeb Bush and Chris Christie.

The nation has no choice but to react to the aggressive capabilities of the United States, Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister of defense, said.

Francis said Romero, who was shot while celebrating Mass, had been lapidated after his death by "the hardest stone that exists in the world: the tongue."

The former president, 69, was funny and self-deprecating in a speech to former members of his administration at a Washington hotel Thursday, attendees said.

In one of Bucharest's worst disasters in decades, about 400 people, mostly young adults, stampeded for the exit as the club filled with smoke.

The latest mass release is a result of retroactive reductions to mandatory minimum sentence guidelines for certain non-violent drug offenses.

The 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails released Friday include exchanges with celebs and requests for tech help, but no conversations with the president.

Both artist Sarah Sole and author Doug Henwood defend artwork that shows Hillary Clinton pointing a gun on the cover of a book that's critical of the presidential candidate.

Responses included skepticism about the Obama administration's announcement.

Nigeria’s court of appeal rejected a bid Friday from the senate president seeking to squash his corruption trial.

This is, essentially, a strategy to dislodge ISIS from its Syrian headquarters. "To really make this successful, you need to have a strong degree of coordination of air and ground forces," a top analyst said.

The state has referred about 16 of every 1,000 students to police, nearly triple the national rate.

The arrest of an Iranian-American businessman by an intelligence unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is shocking the global business community.

Another 7,000 pages of the former secretary of state's emails were put on the State Department's website Friday.

A White House plan to send U.S. special operations forces to Syria to help combat the Islamic State group reminded some observers of a past military effort.

Talks in Vienna on Friday failed to yield a framework for a post-Assad future in Syria, but negotiators agreed that the country's institutions should remain intact.

News that the Republican's team is losing its chief operating officer came as a slew of pundits declared Bush's candidacy "on life support."

The leader of a conservative Latino organization said Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s stance on undocumented immigrants needs a little work.

Russia isn't the "partner we thought we had,” the head of United States' command in Europe said Friday.

Citing distrust of the president, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said immigration reform won't be considered until at least 2017.

Food giant Mars Inc. wants its collaboration with IBM to take food safety testing into a new era.

The Republican National Committee sent a letter to NBC saying it was suspending plans for a February debate until it was able to meet with its campaigns.

A number of Danish politicians are pushing to offer asylum to the former U.S. intelligence worker.