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British Prime Minister David Cameron warns parliament to take Iraqi crisis seriously, or it will "come back to hit the U.K."

The Russian gas giant says the upfront money in the $400 billion deal will help build the "Power of Siberia" pipeline.

ISIS forcefully shut down Baiji refinery before taking full control of the facility, leading oil prices to climb nearly 0.5 percent.

The Iraqi prime minister also said he's trying to unite the country amid concerns of a sectarian war breaking out.

The explosion occurred in the parking lot of Keysaney Hospital in Mogadishu, which is home to the al-Shabab militant group.

The fighters are led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which aims to build a caliphate ruled on medieval precepts.

India has set up a control room to constantly monitor the situation in Iraq, and plans to send a diplomat to Baghdad.

Lawyers of the inmates, who had challenged the secrecy behind the drugs used in the process, failed to block the executions.

Trade between China and UK, which is the former's third-largest trading partner in Europe, was estimated at $70 billion last year.

Two Russian state-television journalists were killed in shelling near the eastern city of Luhansk.

Although state media reported that the explosion was an accident, it also said that the cause of the blast was being investigated.

Washington wants Maliki to do more to address the widespread sense of political exclusion among minority Sunnis in Iraq.

High-level talks between Chinese and Vietnamese officials probably won't be the beginning of South China Sea negotiations.

The passengers included women and children and were suspected of trying to reach Malaysia illegally, a spokesman for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said.

Argentinians face yet another debt crisis. What are the options -- and who would get hurt?

Hilary Clinton 2016? It's possible.

ISIS, the organization that now controls northern Iraq, was until this winter a branch of al Qaeda. How did it become so powerful?

Hammering away at the White House and the IRS over the 2013 affair, a handful of Republicans accused the Obama administration of obstructing congressional probes and renewed calls for the naming of an independent prosecutor.

"I would never have left," vet Mario Hernandez tells International Business Times.

There was no immediate word on casualties but a Reuters witness near the scene heard a loud boom. Some residents said they also heard a second explosion.

ISIS has used Twitter and other social media to instill fear into the Iraqi government and control how its perceived online.

The expanded marine sanctuary would double the area of ocean globally that's fully protected from fishing and energy extraction.

The president said he’ll give entrepreneurs access costly technology. That won’t create the 29,000 manufacturing jobs he needs every month.

The Interior Ministry issued a statement that described the blast as "the latest attempt by the Russian side to discredit Ukraine as a partner in the gas sector."

The billionaire Green family is drawing scrutiny for an effort to introduce a biblical curriculum to U.S. public schools.

Researchers from West Point explain what governments don't understand about terrorist and criminal groups -- and how to stop them.

Global oil analysts are closely watching Iraq. Here's why.

The president's decision to dispatch 275 Marines to protect the embassy in Baghdad does not necessarily herald an American return.

The age-old rift between the two main sects of Islam lies at the center of the Middle East, and may turn even more violent.