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Crackdown follows the case of an Australian couple who left a male twin surrogate baby with Down Syndrome in the country, while taking his sister.

Anti-government protesters are converging on Islamabad in what is seen as the sternest challenge to the elected government yet.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the shrine in December had also sparked criticism from South Korea and China.

Israel managed to secure fresh supplies of U.S. weapons and ammunition without White House approval.

City shelled heavily as Russia dismisses claims of invasion pretext.

Though tension remains over the killing of a black teenager by police, residents say Ferguson no longer feels "like a war zone."

The U.N.'s health agency warns that the reported number of Ebola cases drastically underestimates the scale of the outbreak.

Paul's Time article about the Ferguson, Missouri, events is going viral, but do his words at a 2010 Open Carry rally contradict it?

Protesters across the country held a moment of silence in honor of Michael Brown and others on Thursday night.

The worst outbreak since 2009 follows a year of no cases of TB in Alabama prisons.

Pope Francis, traveling in a Kia while in South Korea, cautioned bishops about caring more about "worldly" successes than the Gospel.

President Obama told reporters he didn't expect the U.S. to have to stage an evacuation of the mountain, where thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority had been trapped by militants, or to continue humanitarian airdrops.

Lawyers for former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Thursday filed a formal appeal of the sweeping 2013 racketeering conviction on charges of committing or ordering 11 murders in the 1970s and 1980s.

A man was killed and two policemen were wounded in an attack on Quetta airport in western Pakistan on Thursday night, officials said

Many have accused the governor for reacting too slowly to the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, over Mike Brown’s death.

A federal program provides equipment from the Pentagon to local police agencies free of charge.

Law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri, have left out some crucial details in the ongoing investigation of the shooting of Mike Brown.

The announcement came four days after Iraqi President Fuad Masum nominated Haider al-Abadi to be Iraq’s new prime minister.

With the Ukrainian military closing in, Igor Strelkov, one of the most controversial figures in the pro-Russian movement, has resigned.

Blacks have been arrested in Ferguson at a much higher rate than whites.

Alderman Antonio French was arrested Wednesday night in Ferguson while taking part in a protest.

In the past 24 hours, ISIS has taken over five towns north of Aleppo and could capture positions controlling border traffic with Turkey.

“The police response has become part of the problem as opposed to being part of the solution,” Sen. Claire McCaskill said.

The president had strong words for police and protesters on both sides of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri.

Ezell Ford was shot by an LAPD officer Monday night after being stopped as he walked down the street in South L.A.

A photo taken by students at the historically black school has gone viral due to its powerful message regarding the Mike Brown shooting.

Pope Francis began his five-day visit to South Korea by encouraging “diplomacy” between the Koreas, hours after the North fired missiles.

A Russian convoy of more than 400 aid trucks and military vehicles is less than 15 miles from the Ukrainian border.

The St. Louis County Police Department has said the name mentioned by Anonymous is a "random citizen" who is not a local police officer.