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Officials estimate more than 1,700 people from France, Germany and the U.K. have joined the Islamic State.

U.S. communities grapple with worries about pollution caused by farms and feedlots in the wake of the toxic water scare in Toledo, Ohio.

Many early Korean Catholics were killed in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Joseon Dynasty.

The plane was said to be carrying seven people, but authorities claim that only six people died in the accident.

One of the people arrested is reportedly the deputy chief of a blood centre operated by a company in Wuwei, in the Gansu province.

Despite a new law-enforcement regime, our reporter on the ground still sees clashes between authorities and protesters.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says, "It is hard to see how how the world would be helped by an independent Scotland."

After weeks of ISIS gains, U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish forces are attempting to take back Mosul Dam from the Islamic State.

Almost six-and-a-half years after it ceased such efforts, following a U.S. government bailout, the insurer returns to lobbying lawmakers.

A man and a woman are facing charges after two Amish girls were abducted in northern New York Wednesday.

It's not easy being a black teenager in a town where 94 percent of police are white.

Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on two felony counts Friday by a state grand jury after a lengthy investigation.

Ayatollah Khamenei talked about Ferguson and condemned America on Twitter about the “brutal treatment of black people.”

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has become a de-facto refugee camp, shelter, local hangout and target, doctors there say.

The revelations are an embarrassing turn after Germany was highly critical of the United States' extensive foreign spying operations.

By involving themselves in the Ferguson unrest, Anonymous hackers have made it clear they're still around and not going anywhere.

Why have so few Chinese immigrants applied for Obama’s deferred action program for undocumented youth?

The world knows Mike Brown’s story, but what we really don’t know is how many more like him have died at the hands of police.

For the first time since ISIS began taking over certain parts of Iraq, Sunni tribes have taken up arms against the Sunni militant group.

Per usual, Ukraine and Russia are squabbling over the facts, this time over what appears to be the first claimed Russian incursion into Ukrainian territory.

The arrest of Huang Haitao, a high-ranking executive, is the latest sign of trouble for CCTV.

China can’t use environmentalism as a defense for quashing rare earth elements exports if it’s not curbing extraction, the WTO says.

Pope Francis took steps toward improving Sino-Vatican relations this week, but China and the Holy See still have a long way to go.

June numbers from the central bank are the latest sign that Latin America's largest economy is slipping into recession.

The man behind the $50 billion project designed to revitalize Nicaragua's economy remains a mystery.

Despite recent efforts to improve community relations, many protesters still want more answers from law enforcement.

A century after the Panama Canal opened, a potential rival emerges. But it's far from certain the Nicaragua Canal will work, or even exist.

Data show lawmakers backing Pentagon hardware donations to local police raked in big money from defense contractors.