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Xenophobic violence has killed seven people in the past month.

Six women were seen in a music video. Three were jailed, two were fined and one was let off because of her age.

Among the thousands killed, it has been confirmed that at least three Americans are also dead after the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on whether a drug used in Oklahoma's lethal injection mix should be banned.

Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, stepped down from her family's foundation earlier this month.

Syrian state television said the military had ambushed some militants close to Jisr al-Shughour.

China has already pledged $2.2 million more than the United States to Nepal and is sending 62 rescue workers.

The earthquake is the worst disaster to hit the nation in at least 80 years.

Ethiopia anticipates $1.5 billion in foreign direct investment this year as its economy continues to show strength.

Sick and wounded people were being moved onto dusty roads in Nepal as overwhelmed doctors moved hundreds of patients out of offices.

Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators appear set to reject an electoral-reform package, while China seems set to reject the prospect of any compromise.

The bombings were the first on Sanaa since a Saudi-led coalition said last week it was scaling back a campaign against Houthi militias.

Hundreds of armed Boko Haram fighters aboard motorized canoes attacked the island and killed "many" soldiers from Niger's army.

Two U.S. senators are calling on the president to declassify details of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

The Stellar Wind program was first made public by Edward Snowden, a former contract employee of the U.S. National Security Agency.

Recent easing -- and the halving of crude-oil prices, supposedly a windfall for consumers -- have not changed the global outlook all that much.

After attacks on immigrants in South Africa, the country's department of international relations said it's committed to good relations with Nigeria.

Two city council officials, a former parliamentarian and a senior prison officer were killed by the al Qaeda-allied group.

Civilians have been slaughtered since rebel groups took Jisr al-Shughour, Syrian television said.

Neighboring nations and the U.S. have dispatched aid to the country because of the earthquake that triggered the worst-ever disaster on the slopes of Mount Everest.

The head of the Southeast Asian organization basically rejected China's controversial territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Nursultan Nazarbayev was set to renew his 26-year grip on power on Sunday, offering social stability in return for what rights groups call a suppression of opposition.

The acting police chief of southern Afghan province was shot and killed by a fellow officer, about a month after his predecessor was also assassinated.

At least five air strikes hit military sites and an area near the presidential palace compound in the Yemeni capital Sanaa at dawn on Sunday.

As the official death toll from the earthquake nears 2,000, aftershocks measuring magnitude 6.8 struck the country Sunday.

The Philippines on Sunday called on neighboring Southeast Asian nations to push for an immediate halt to China's reclamation in the disputed South China Sea.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told conservative Christians a "liberal fascism" was dedicated to persecuting Christians in the U.S.

Three people were found dead inside a Los Angeles-area business on Saturday in what might have been a fire bomb or Molotov cocktail attack.

At least 17 bodies have been recovered, while helicopter rescue missions have been hampered by bad weather in the area of the base camp.