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U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran to release three Americans and to help find missing person Robert Levinson.

Otis Byrd, 54, was found hanging from a tree just miles from his home in Mississippi.

Two car bombs exploded during festivities for Nowruz, the Persian new year, killing mostly women and children.

Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser planned to derail a Toronto passenger train.

Victims of the terror group's "killing and maiming spree" are discovered as international troops retake lost Nigerian territory.

The U.S. FDA approved genetically modified Arctic apples and Innate potatoes — but stopped short of requiring the GMO label.

The New Jersey Republican’s administration blocked a lawmaker’s open-records request for details about a $225 million deal.

Thousands who crossed Egypt's western border to find work have been returning home by land or by flights from Tunisia.

A suicide attack that killed at least 142 pulls Yemen deeper into a region-wide fight, but an ISIS claim is doubtful.

Japan wants more men to take paternity leave and help them spend more time with their children.

Slightly more than half of women in Nigeria are registered to vote, one estimate says.

A pay raise for low-income workers -- most of them people of color -- could lift their average annual earnings by $4,800.

One industry trade group called it "a barrier to growth." Several prominent GOP senators are already moving to block the mandate.

Fears of sectarian violence are growing as the conflict between the Houthi rebels and Sunni extremist factions intensifies.

The original deployment was rescheduled for fears it would affect a fragile ceasefire agreement.

Due to sectarian mistrust, the police in Anbar province are recruiting local Sunnis to fight ISIS instead of relying on the Iraqi military.

Retired military officers, some of whom had suffered injuries for which pot offered relief, joined a rally Thursday.

The astronomical event occurred in the early morning, when solar panels typically generate only a little electricity anyway.

Two guards were having coffee, a third was eating a snack and a fourth never showed up — leaving no guards at Tunisia's museum and parliament.

More than 130 are dead after two blasts at the Badr mosque and a third at al Hashoosh mosque — both of which were frequented by supporters of Shiite Houthi rebels.

Wednesday's attack in Tunisia heightened the European country's concern that it could be next.

Sweden’s beefing up its submarine fleet stems from reports in October of sightings of a foreign submarine off the coast of Stockholm.

Russia launched massive military drills in February along its borders with the Baltic states.

A total of nine people were arrested Thursday in connection with the attack, during which five gunmen stormed the National Bardo Museum in Tunis. Twenty-three people were killed in the raid.

A major rally to mark the North African country's Independence Day is planned for Friday amid fears of follow-up attacks.

ISIS recently seized control of at least two cities along Libya's Mediterranean coastline after taking territory in Syria and Iraq last year.

The attacks occurred when bombers blew themselves up at the Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques in Sanaa during noon prayers. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

The ruble has lost nearly half its value since mid-March last year, when Russia was subjected to Western sanctions.

Justice Department attorneys stand accused of deliberately misleading a district court judge on part of Obama's immigration plan.