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The talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez marked the first high-level meeting in over 50 years.

The latest case follows last month’s arrest of 18 Indian fishermen and the seizure of three boats for violating territorial waters on the Arabian Sea off the Karachi coast.

China TV host Bi Fujian expresses deep remorse, as new state TV boss calls for "correct" behavior.

After the amendments, the maximum jail term has also been extended to 20 years from the current three years.

A new Unesco report finds that only 52 percent of countries achieved universal primary school enrolment target.

Russia holds a significant portion of the vast hydrocarbon reserves in the Arctic but lacks the expertise to exploit them.

The officers arranged drug purchases, and then used their police authority to coerce their victims to flee, prosecutors said.

Washington has backed the Saudi-led air offensive in Yemen to halt the advances of the Iran-allied Houthis.

Marine Le Pen is bringing disciplinary charges against her father over comments he made about the Holocaust. He says she "may want me dead."

President Obama said Thursday the United States is concerned China uses its "sheer size and muscle" to push around smaller countries in the SouthChina Sea.

Santana filmed the only known video of Scott being shot to death by Police Officer Michael Slager in North Charleston, South Carolina.

A suspect was captured following a car chase, and a shoot-out with police. One officer was wounded and the suspect was also shot in the head.

If President Poroshenko signs the bill into law, a trove of information on KGB activity and persecution will be available to the public.

A health care worker who was being treated for Ebola at a National Institutes of Health hospital in Maryland has been declared free of the virus and was released from the hospital, according to the U.S. aid agency Partners In Health.

President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had completed its review of whether to remove Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism but that he was waiting for a recommendation from his advisers.

A dash cam shows Walter Scott being stopped on April 4 by North Charleston, South Carolina, Officer Michael Slager, who shot and killed him.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is concluded.

The videotaped shooting of Walter Scott last Saturday has renewed a push for widespread adoption of body cameras.

Police critics and supporters are united behind one cause: Bring on the body cameras.

The South Carolina police officer charged in the death of Walter Scott unnecessarily Tased another man in 2013, that man says.

The Scandinavian country will send 120 troops to assist in the training of Iraqi and Kurdish fighters.

The mass will be one of the most high-profile recent acknowledgments of the historic atrocity by a major world leader.

African-Americans who have served in the armed forces have long struggled with homelessness, unemployment and other social woes.

Ashkan Soltani, the FTC’s new chief technologist, wants to look under Silicon Valley’s hood. Should tech companies be nervous?

A new program in Houston tries to bring nonemergency patients to primary care clinics instead of emergency rooms.

The proposed railway would allow for easier access between China and Nepal -- but not all think that is a good thing.

In Pennsylvania, homes near drilling sites are increasingly exposed to cancer-causing radon, a health study revealed Thursday.

Walter Scott was afraid of going to jail for not paying child support, according to his family.

During union campaigns, elected officials can get away with saying things employers cannot. South Carolina's governor called on workers to reject the International Association of Machinists.