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Candidates before him, like Chris Christie and Mitt Romney, have found foreign trips dangerous territory — full of mishaps and political blunders.

The semitrailer was transporting around 2,200 piglets to Indiana from South Carolina.

Several vaccines and treatments for MERS are in development, but none have completed clinical trials.

The timing of the test is crucial as the U.S government is weighing aggressive responses to Russia's alleged violation of a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty.

The decision to exclude Israel, despite a draft recommendation from a high-ranking U.N. official, was reportedly made under "intense pressure" from Washington and Tel Aviv.

Zainab Bangura, a United Nations envoy who visited Iraq and Syria in April, recounts her interactions with teenage girls who managed to escape the captivity of the Islamic State group.

The Chinese Football Association has described Hong Kong's team as being made up of people “with black skin, yellow skin and white skin.”

The new regulations will allow women to travel abroad without the permission of their male guardians, authorities said.

The lawsuit, which named the American president among others, demanded that the U.S. government admit to “unlawful deaths” from drone strikes.

Two industry associations fired the latest salvo in what could be a long fight over government access into smart phones and other digital devices.

The move by the federal rail agency comes after last month's Amtrak train derailment that killed eight and injured over 200.

Nearly 10 million students work hard -- and a few cheat -- to pass China's annual university entrance exam, which critics say kills imagination.

However, the G7 countries, which account for nearly a third of global carbon emissions, failed to set binding cuts on emissions of greenhouse gases.

The four killed in Suning county included at least one suspect, China Central Television said, giving few other details.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the survivors of a downed plane, nearly three hours after the single engine Cessna 172 aircraft crashed into sea.

The country's elections, while nominally free and democratic, have long been criticized as rubber-stamp affairs.

The Admiral Grigorovich-class and Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates are at the center of Russia’s naval expansion efforts.

The rebels were suspected to be part of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist).

A video of a police officer in Texas drawing a gun at teenagers at a pool party has yet again highlighted the debate on the use of force by U.S. law enforcement officials.

Dr. John Henry Hagmann has helped train thousands of soldiers and medical personnel in how to treat battlefield wounds, but an investigation by Virginia medical authorities alleges pigs weren’t his only training subjects, an exclusive Reuters report says.

Authorities have announced plans to open 150 treatment centers, a remarkable acknowledgment of the scale of alcoholism in the Islamic republic.

Americans increasingly approve of same-sex marriage, a poll indicates, but Democrats are still significantly more supportive than Republicans.

Buckingham Palace said Monday that Queen Elizabeth will visit Bergen-Belsen during her state visit to Germany in late June.

Parents of McKinney, Texas, high school students criticized brutality and racism in their community after a video emerged depicting an officer throwing a girl on the ground.

The US Army's site was down on Monday. Hackers aligned with the Syrian regime claimed it was their work.

"The construction of sexual and gender identity is an issue that doesn’t depend on biology," Colombia's justice minister said.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office called the vote partisan and “shocking.”

As Hezbollah attacks al Qaeda's stronghold in Lebanon, militants resort to putting prisoners on tape.

A black motorist claimed the white police officer seen in the notorious pool-party video used excessive force in 2007.