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Human Rights Watch says the world must do more to help end rights abuses in chaotic Libya, which has emerged…

Angela Merkel has defied many forecasts of her looming political demise in 12 years as German chancellor. And nearly four…

The Middle East’s largest airline, Emirates, is purchasing 20 A380 aircraft with the option for 16 more in a deal…

The grandparents of 13 starved and tortured children say their son’s family looked happy and healthy when they last visited…

Pakistani officials say gunmen have shot and killed a mother and her daughter who were taking part in an anti-polio…

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has complained about inconsistent statements from the United States about the creation of a border…

A rights lawyer who hopes to run in Egypt’s presidential election in March said Wednesday that bureaucrats loyal to the…

US Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming visit to the Middle East comes at a time of intensely publicized friction between…

What makes a private sexual encounter newsworthy? A little-known website raised that very question after publishing an unidentified woman’s vivid…

Israeli police say special forces killed a Palestinian gunman in the West Bank who allegedly killed an Israeli in a…

Thousands of Haitian immigrants living in the US legally will face employment and travel hurdles because President Donald Trump’s administration…

When Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of eastern Mosul a year ago, Nashwan Shakir Mahmoud raced back to…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered the transfer of $2 billion to Yemen on Wednesday, a day after Yemen’s Saudi-backed prime…

Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar’s military in the notorious Insein prison,…

Looking to put Chile’s sex abuse scandal behind him, Pope Francis dives Wednesday into another divisive issue roiling the South…

A 17-year-old girl called police after escaping from her family’s home where she and her 12 brothers and sisters were…

The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a car wreck in Australian woods said Tuesday he…

A jubilant Ava DuVernay was named entertainer of the year at an NAACP Image Awards ceremony that focused on the…

Romania’s prime minister resigned Monday after his party withdrew its support for him amid a power struggle with the party…

Police in southern Germany say a school bus has rammed into a house without braking, injuring 21 children. Mannheim police…