The explosions in Taiwan's second-largest city late Thursday killed 27 people and injured 267.
After Friday’s collapsed cease-fire, Israel and Hamas are not attending Cairo negotiations.
More than 2,000 people took the streets in protest against Islamist and former rebel militias who are fighting Libya’s armed forces.
Messages calling Communist Party officials "bandits" and images of alleged human-rights abuses were shown for more than four hours.
The blast in Kunshan City was caused by a fire that began in the workshop and spread to engulf a high-density powder.
Tunisia closed its main border crossing with Libya Friday amid the country's escalating violence.
A U.S.-backed cease-fire in Gaza broke down about 90 minutes after it became effective Friday.
A bill calling for $225 million to replenish Israel's missile-defense system is being sent to President Barack Obama for signing into law.
Both parties claim to hope to help the border humanitarian crisis, but actions speak louder than words.
The Hamas Islamist group's armed wing in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday it had no clear indication on the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier that Israel has accused them of abducting, adding he may have been killed during an ambush.
The Export-Import Bank hasn't changed -- but the two parties' positions on taxpayer subsidies to corporations have.
Eric Garner's death, which a New York medical examiner ruled was a homicide Friday, has dominated Twitter conversation.
Russia's latest media crackdown makes Putin critics online provide their home addresses.
As the New Jersey governor barnstorms the U.S. ahead of a possible presidential run, he wins a case letting him hide who is funding his tour.
The leader of an anti-union group whose "mission is to bring transparency" to schools will not release names of financial backers.
The U.S. House of Representatives planned to vote on Friday on revised border security legislation that would make it easier to deport Central American child migrants from the southwestern border, satisfying a key demand from conservative Republicans.
A new report breaks down who's leaving, why, and what can be done to help more students finish college.
“We certainly have steadfastly defended Israel’s right to defend themselves and we defend Israel’s right to respond to this barbaric violation of the cease-fire agreement.”
The New York City Medical Examiner ruled the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died in a chokehold by a New York City Police officer, a homicide on Friday.
Obama acknowledged that "we tortured some folks," but also said he has full confidence in CIA Director John Brennan.
Israel has access to a stockpile of American-supplied ammunition, and it has drawn from it during its conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Accounts of severe cold in U.S. Border Patrol facilities abound. Advocates say it's intentional, but there's no official explanation.
His bio says his "writing stems from his father," a newspaper publisher who once wrote that the idea of innocent Palestinians is "nonsense."
Researchers think that open data could mean trillions in economic growth.
Yochanan Gordon was slammed on social media for suggesting genocide against Palestinians is justifiable.
Since the last Gaza truce in November 2012, Israel has violated the truce 191 times and the Palestinians have violated it 75 times.
With rising poverty and government in disarray, people were losing faith in Hamas, before war with Israel silenced the debate.
The employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio tells you more about the U.S. economic recovery than the "new jobs" numbers.
That might defy logic, but there's actually a good reason for that puzzling metric from today's U.S. report on labor conditions.
After a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire collapsed in Gaza and one Israeli soldier was feared captured, fighting has now resumed in the Strip.