Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was one of many to mourn on social media the death of civil-rights icon Julian Bond, who died Saturday night.
At least 200 other people were wounded in the attack, which struck a marketplace in Douma, about 10 miles northeast of Damascus.
Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record and has seen two major plane crashes in the past year, including an AirAsia flight that went down in the Java Sea, killing all on board.
The decision follows criticism from some German officials of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's military crackdown against Kurdish militants.
Once popular and prosperous, sketch artists now have little time to work and comparatively little work to go around.
With the two countries now putting aside their Cold War-era rivalry and restoring diplomatic relations, many old bilateral conflicts are being pulled out of storage for negotiation.
"We declare a state of emergency due to the unusual activity of Mount Cotopaxi," Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said during his weekly address Saturday.
Julian Bond, who held elected office in Georgia for two decades, was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People between 1998 and 2010.
A French policeman was slightly wounded by a gunshot on Sunday as he tried to apprehend two men who had broken into an Interior Ministry building just outside Paris, a ministry spokesman said.
The U.S. surgeon general says he has no regrets about branding gun violence a public-health issue, despite the fierce political backlash it unleashed.
Police said the blast appeared to be a large bomb, and it had caused the roof to cave in as the home minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, held meetings with supporters in his hometown of Attock in northern Pakistan.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday approved the decision of an investigative council to refer military commanders to a court martial for abandoning their positions in the battle against Islamic State militants in Ramadi.
Tributes for Pakistan's late former military spy chief Lieutenant General Hamid Gul poured in on Sunday, words bound to infuriate Pakistan's neighbors after he spent a career promoting Islamic militancy in Afghanistan and India.
Hundreds of Syrian migrants on the Greek island of Kos on Sunday began boarding a passenger ship that is to house and process them, in a bid to ease sometimes chaotic conditions onshore.
China's Internet regulator has suspended the operations of 50 websites, which it claimed were responsible for "negative influences" in the wake of the Tianjin disaster.
Abe said on Friday he upheld past official apologies for the war, but the conservative leader said future generations should not have to keep apologizing for the mistakes of the past.
Police thought initially there were 20 people in the group.
"We’re going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together, but they have to go,” the U.S. presidential candidate says of undocumented immigrants.
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The competition to win Il Palio is so fierce that saboteurs have drugged horses and kidnapped jockeys ahead of the races.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden appears at odds with the FBI's stance on the suspect who fatally shot five military personnel in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last month.
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, was on a family vacation when he was taken ill.
Officials in the Dominican Republic have grown concerned by a long-running influx of people from neighboring Haiti.
The Islamic State group regularly executes men accused of being gay in this manner.
The hashtag for the event trended nationally on Twitter Saturday afternoon.
"I find it somewhat curious that Jeb Bush is doubling down on - defending - his brother's actions in Iraq," she said at a press conference.
Local authorities and diplomats feared the run-up to another civil war amid many other assassinations.
"My vision is that we have to continue managing the exchange rate and preserve currency and financial stability so the development project has continuity," Daniel Scioli says Saturday.
North Korea has historically viewed the annual Ulchi-Freedom Guardian military exercises by South Korea and the U.S. as preparations for war.
“AT&T has given the NSA access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks,” the New York Times reported.
