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Rebel groups ended a yearlong blockade at major export terminals Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, which could start shipping crude again within a week.

The Department of Homeland Security will require new security measures for certain direct flights to the United States.

The Obama administration views India as a key strategic counter-balance in Asia to an increasingly assertive China.

American authorities reportedly uncovered a plot by al-Qaida to smuggle bombs on to planes using sympathizers from the West.

IndiGo, which operates 79 aircraft and has orders for 186 planes, plans to order nearly 250 more aircraft this month.

The latest unrest was triggered by rumors that a Muslim owner of a teashop had raped a Buddhist woman.

India had summoned American diplomats to discuss a report that claimed the NSA had spied on India's current ruling party in 2010.

Easing sanctions will likely have only a minimal economic impact, but it could lead to a thawing of ties between Tokyo and Pyongyang.

Libya's acting Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said the government had reached a deal with a rebel leader controlling oil ports to hand over the last two terminals and end a blockade.

U.S. military advisers have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said, according to Reuters in an exclusive report.

According to a criminal complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Colorado, Shannon Maureen Conley knew the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIL or ISIS, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group renamed itself "Islamic State" at the weekend.

The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the biggest and deadliest ever, according to WHO.

Full relations between Venezuela and Panama have been restored, nearly four months after Venezuela broke them off.

A proposed amendment to Japan's constitution ratchets up tension in East Asia, but it does not mean war looms.

Like Chipotle and Sonic, the big-box retailer has decided that firearms negatively impact the atmosphere in its stores.

Chinese workers went on strike after hearing from their boss what many are calling Japanese revisions of history.

The most dangerous extremist group in the world has kidnapped scores of children in Syria. Why isn't the international community reacting?

Al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen may be trying to put unconventional bombs on European airliners.

The Canadian pipeline company will likely face fierce opposition when it re-applies for certification in South Dakota.

With a pontiff known for not shying away from exorcisms, the Vatican has officially approved of the practice.

European media outlets are upset with the recent ruling that compels Google to remove search results broadly deemed to be "inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant."

The violence came two days after a cease-fire abruptly ended.

Maya Peterson had to give up her role at the New Jersey prep school after she posted 'offensive' images mocking her "typical white classmates."

Scores of North African refugees are lost at sea after attempting to reach Italy for asylum.

U.S. energy officials are betting the proposed Cape Cod offshore wind energy project will put more than 100 turbines in Nantucket Sound.

With a crowdfunding campaign, environmentalists hope to air an anti-Exxon commercial nationally over the holiday weekend.

The rate is lower than it would have been without a law passed last year, it but could be higher in the future.

Global companies are meeting with potential Iranian partners ahead of nuclear talks that could lift sanctions later this month.

The Chinese government has banned Muslims in the Xinjiang region from celebrating Ramadan, the month of fasting.