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The two German nationals were kidnapped in April after their yacht broke down near the Filipino province of Palawan.

PM Shinzo Abe sent an offering to the shrine Thursday, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.

Researchers found only 111 of 2,379 drone victims killed in Pakistan since 2004 were "senior commander[s] of any armed group."

Power outages resulted from howling winds and torrential rains from the strongest storm to hit the Atlantic islands in a decade.

Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal court actions.

Tracking Ebola-related errors made by the likes of the CDC and the World Health Organization is almost as difficult as tracking the virus itself.

After years of economic woe, Argentina has announced another domestic bond sale this year that it hopes will raise $1 billion.

A FiveThirtyEight report showed that there are no direct flights between the U.S. and West African countries where Ebola hit hardest.

About 9,000 demonstrators clashed with police late Friday night in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok financial district.

The credit of Russia's government is hovering just above "junk" status as rich Russians dump the ruble for stronger currencies.

The market for privately developed Ebola-testing products is heating up.

Law enforcement officials in Ferguson shot one man and arrested another near an apartment complex.

Iraqi Prime Minister al Abadi is relying on militias with checkered histories to help his army fight the Islamic State.

The international community showed up late to fight Ebola with an underfunded and in some ways misplaced effort.

China's response to the Ebola outbreak is based on what the country learned from SARS 11 years ago.

Lebanon, right on the border of Syria, may have to add another problem to a long list: ISIS could soon try to expand there.

The Department of Energy isn't commenting on technology that could give health care workers a way to diagnose Ebola on the spot.

Europe's leaders can't agree on border screening policies or travel bans.

A lawsuit over an oil pipeline built in the mid-1990s marks the first time London-based BP faces a UK court for its actions overseas.

Boko Haram has reportedly agreed to release hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by the terrorist group this year.

The buzz about hazmat suits and victim get-ups as 2014's hot costumes has little basis in truth, according to Halloween stores.

A former AIG CEO testified in a civil trial that the insurance giant was controlled by the group that financially rescued it.

Ramadi is the capital of the vast province of Anbar — of which the Islamic State group currently controls about 80 percent.

Large crowds returned to the financial district hours after police cleared the area -- and faced pepper spray and batons.

At least 10 people were killed in central Yemen when Houthi rebels clashed with members of al Qaeda.

Klain has no public health experience, but his managerial skills are respected around Washington, where's he's in politics since 1992.

The Fed chief pointed to four pillars of economic opportunity that could narrow the gap.

After violent riots in Vietnam threatened Sino-Vietnamese relations, the two nations are getting back on track.

The woman who recently arrived from Africa was vomiting and was taken in an ambulance to Virginia Hospital Center.