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The quarantine of three districts follows a three-day, country-wide quarantine last week, in the Ebola-hit country.

Authorities had previously said that explosions which took place Sunday had killed only two people and injured several others.

The airstrikes on 12 refineries near Al Hasakah, Al Mayadin and Abu Kamal were carried out late on Wednesday and early on Thursday.

Secondary students are joining university groups in protesting the limitations imposed on the city's democratic process by China.

Parliamentarians and film directors are calling for a boycott of U.S. movies, as relations sour over the crisis in Ukraine.

The Islamic State group has no credible plans to attack the New York City subway system.

Zhou Xiaochuan may get replaced as central banker, but China's president remains in control.

A weakened Hamas agreed to a unity deal with its rival Fatah to cede control of Gaza.

Fox News hosts are under fire after they made sexist comments about the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot, Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri.

The first African-American to become Attorney General of the U.S. resigned on Thursday.

China usually stays out of politics in places where it invests, but that seems to be changing.

FBI Director James Comey admonished Apple for using iOS 8's security as a marketing tool.

Millions were given to entities that didn't submit applications or promise to create jobs, the audit found.

Obama offered an impassioned plea to a meeting of ministers and leaders from around the world to contribute to the Ebola fight.

ISIS' calls to international Muslim extremist groups may have gained traction in the Philippines, but jihad hasn't arrived there yet.

Corporate tax breaks cost taxpayers 20 times more than inversion deals.

If citizen journalists have been able to identify the location of Islamic State fighters, U.S. officials probably can too.

The departing attorney general drew the ire of Republicans and praise from civil rights and LGBT advocates. What is his balance sheet?

Under pressure in the north of the country, ISIS fighters have turned their attention south, taking a military base near Baghdad.

The EPA administrator echoed voices at the U.N. climate summit that fighting climate change can spur economic growth.

After years of military cuts, experts raise questions about whether the UK can make a meaningful impact against ISIS.

Islamic State terrorists have allegedly plotted attacks on New York and Paris subways, Iraq’s prime minister said at the U.N. Thursday.

The videos of the brutal beheadings of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines helped rally global opinion against the extremist Islamic State group.

“Today’s anti-Westernism is the offspring of yesterday’s colonialism," Iranian President Rouhani told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.

Obama could move to appoint a new attorney general before the midterm elections in November, when Republicans hope to win back the Senate.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson released a public apology to Michael Brown's parents Thursday.

The USDA is proposing annual reviews of organizations that certify farms and ranches as organic.

"Good riddance, Eric Holder. Your disregard for the Constitution of the United States will not be missed."

Holder, 63, was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation's first black U.S. attorney general. He steps down amid tensions with Congress.