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The problem of child pornography in was initially bought to the government's attention through a petition effort by Kamlesh Vaswani, a local lawyer.

In the oil sector alone, $150 billion was believed to have been taken from the African nation's coffers, a report said.

The king of trolling ended up being duped into a photo-op with a gang of Ivy League pranksters. He didn't respond kindly.

A piece of plastic discovered Tuesday may be part of a plane window, police said amid a search for clues to a Malaysia Airlines jet's disappearance.

The high-level reconnaissance ship Yuri Ivanov has been more than a decade in the making.

The papal visit, scheduled for Sept. 19-22, is considered a landmark event.

"They've been able to keep raising prices because students are captive consumers. They have to buy whatever books they're assigned."

The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland has been assigned to desk duty for violating departmental procedures during a traffic stop.

The two men, both from Mexico, will reportedly lead two separate commissions but will not receive a monthly stipend.

Ukrainian authorities claim this is more evidence that the Kremlin is supporting the 16-month-long war.

Venezuela and Russia have strengthened their diplomatic ties in recent months amid separate flaps with the West.

A new analysis found that New York, Boston and Miami are currently the three most Jewish cities per capita in the country.

Rick Perry is out, based on polls, and the only woman in the field, Carly Fiorina, won't make the debate either. Who is in and who is out?

Nigeria's new president Muhammadu Buhari must overhaul the country's state-owned oil company to save the West African nation from losing billions of dollars.

Saudi Arabia is intensifying its crackdown on ISIS affiliates since a string of attacks on Shiite mosques in the country's eastern region.

The poll, conducted by the Finnish policy research center Taloustutkimus and commissioned by the Finnish news service Yle, reported that only 37 percent of respondents would be willing to live near a mosque.

President Obama pledged to "hold Wall Street accountable" after the financial crisis, but government records show corporate crime prosecutions have plummeted.

Greece reached an agreement for a third bailout after months of acrimonious talks with its international creditors.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, however, did not mention the source of the money.

The agreement -- signed after nearly two decades of negotiations -- could end over 60 years of violent insurgency in India's remote northeast.

The move comes after a popular lion named Cecil was illegally killed by a Minnesota-based dentist Walter James Palmer in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.

India and Pakistan blamed each other for initiating the violence that killed three civilians and injured several others early Tuesday.

Irek Hamidullin is the only surviving member of a Taliban group that attacked American and Afghan forces in November 2009.

A tent collapsed during a family festival one day after two other incidents near Chicago resulted in a death and several injuries.

The flood hit Xiaoyuhecun Valley in Shaanxi province in northwestern China after the area recorded its heaviest rainfall in 30 years.

China has shown no sign of halting its construction of artificial islands in disputed waters.

Yemen's exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi remains in Saudi Arabia, where he fled in March as the Houthis closed in on his refuge in Aden.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, carrying 239 people on board, disappeared in March 2014.

Airstrikes carried out by the U.S. and its allies in Iraq and Syria over the past year have led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians, according to a new report.