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Officials have urged citizens to stock up on water and other necessary commodities while they investigate the issue.

The shootout happened after police raided several houses where the militants were believed to be hiding.

Iran’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Ali Qanbari said Iran would not require importing wheat any more.

Twelve students were also killed in a stampede at an Afghan school as students rushed out following the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that was felt as far east as New Delhi, India.

As China's leaders meet to plan economic and social strategy for the next five years, some economists say market reform is more important than rapid growth.

Saudi authorities have said more than $25,000 will be fined for each pilgrim who fails to leave the country by the deadline.

Some U.S. intelligence officials worry that Russia may have plans to attack underwater network cables.

Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said the Russian search engine would open offices in Iran.

The hunt, which was originally scheduled to last a week, was called off in just two days after a total of 295 bears were killed.

Cesare Tavella, 50, who worked with a Dutch faith-based charity in Dhaka, was shot dead on Sept. 28.

As Kabul turns to an old ally for military assistance, Moscow is most likely to comply, but not with boots on the ground, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The university said Sunday that there was an active shooter on campus and asked its students to seek shelter.

Leaders of 11 European Union nations and three non-EU countries finalized a 17-point plan to manage the massive influx of refugees in the Balkan Peninsula.

The vice president also said he didn’t have a “Hollywood-esque” moment with his son Beau about campaigning.

The lawyer of Adacia Avery Chambers, 25, said his client is mentally ill and doubted she was drunk at the time of the crash.

The conservative victors won enough votes to govern alone and install policies against refugees, and for a new tax on bank assets, which risk setting Poland on a collision course with the EU.

As problems mount and uncertainties grow, one local artist has satirized the political contest through the beloved HBO show "Game of Thrones."

"The successor Trident program is going to consume more than double the proportion of the defense budget of its predecessor."

If all goes well, it will be first time in Haiti's rocky political history that three democratic elections have been held in succession without interruption by fraud or armed rebellion.

Pro-Palestine activists in France were prosecuted under a French law prohibiting speech that "incites racial hatred."

The case follows accusations in 2013 that U.S. authorities had spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr's life now hangs on the possibility of a pardon from King Salman.

Surging Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson responded to a Donald Trump attack, defending his "soft-spoken" demeanor.

The Euroskeptic Law and Justice Party Sunday ended eight years of centrist rule and handed victory to Euroskeptics who oppose refugees and welfare promises.

Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri turned out a surprisingly strong performance, forcing the country's first runoff vote.

Moscow is a key foreign ally for Bashar Assad, and Russia's foreign minister said in comments aired on Russian TV Saturday that the Kremlin wanted Syria to prepare for parliamentary and presidential elections.

"Every day counts," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says. "Otherwise, we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably."

The bilateral deals between Japan and Uzbekistan cover the communications, energy, transport and other sectors.

One German official estimates the country’s need at 350,000 apartments per year, but only 245,000 were built last year.