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Tom Hayes, a former UBS trader, pulled the strings in a benchmark manipulation scheme that has cost big banks billions, prosecutors say.

The measure still leaves Louisiana among the harsher states on marijuana possession.

West Virginia joins 10 other states with such bans, though the claim that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks is disputed.

Authorities reportedly confirmed that the gunman was one of the individuals who died in the incident.

Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments had given millions to the Clinton Foundation.

The terrorist commander was one of 30 Boko Haram fighters killed Saturday in a foiled attack on Nigerian Special Forces in Mafa district.

The Iraqi security forces launched a last-minute operation to retake Ramadi Monday, but ISIS could outgun them.

An investigation has found that details of sex scandals and alleged criminal acts were removed from MPs' Wikipedia pages from inside Parliament.

North Korea faces sanctions from the United Nations and is banned from developing or using ballistic missile technology.

Narendra Modi, whose party came to power in landslide elections last year, completed a year as India's prime minister on Tuesday.

Local media reported that at least 20 police officers were killed in an overnight ambush in Garissa county in the country's northeast.

The U.N. refugee agency has estimated that over 3,000 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants are still stranded at sea.

Last year, the Philippines accused China of reclaiming land on Johnson South Reef, apparently to build an airstrip.

The accused has argued that $2.46 million of the total amount cited in the case should not be considered as bribes.

A white paper on Chinese military strategy also stressed protection from space weaponization and cybersecurity, amid a more assertive naval approach.

The Australian government will introduce legislation to strip citizenship from dual nationals engaged in terrorism, both at home and abroad.

The country has witnessed increased violence amid the fallout of peace talks between government forces and the rebels.

Former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara was ousted and killed in mysterious circumstances during a 1987 coup.

Lassa fever is endemic to parts of West Africa also affected by the ongoing Ebola epidemic, but is rarely seen in the U.S.

Under a new law passed last week, women in Myanmar might be forced to have children at least three years apart.

The cause of the fire was unclear, according to a local agency.

An online petition to exempt feminine hygiene products from Australia's national sales tax has gained momentum.

President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on Monday for fallen American forces.

People in 13 southern states commemorated Memorial Day by holding simultaneous “funerals” for the Confederate flag.

Sunni Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq has contradicted Shiite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, echoing U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and adding fuel to the fire.

At least 10 adults and three children are dead after a tornado ripped through the Mexican border city of Acuña. It’s rare for tornados to strike so far south of Tornado Alley.

Two days earlier, a police officer was found not guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of an unarmed African-American couple.

Sunday’s arrest of a Coca-Cola subsidiary IT employee underscores the pervasiveness of extremist ideology in Bangladesh.

An area the Nigerian military claimed was safe has been subject to attacks by the militant group.