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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has won a second, four-year term in office, with more than 97 per cent of the vote in last week's election, according to official results announced Monday by the election commission, which put turnout at 41....

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked two villages on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Sunday, killing at least 15 people, the military said Monday.The Boko Haram militants tried to enter the center of Maidugiri,...

The widow of the gunman who slaughtered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was acquitted yesterday of helping to plot the attack and lying to the FBI afterward - a rare and stinging defeat for the US government in a terrorism case....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP):Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark seven times from behind, according to autopsy results released yesterday by a pathologist hired by Clark's family, findings that call into question the department's assertion that the 22-...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP):Accident-reconstruction investigators are trying to figure out what caused an SUV carrying a family to plunge off a California cliff in a deadly wreck that happened shortly after child-welfare authorities went to their home to...

VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP):  In the living room of his family's two-story blue and white home in one of Valencia's poorest, most crime ridden neighborhoods, relatives gathered around Daniel Marquez's wooden casket and wailed as they...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): A Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Gaza Strip early today, hours before Palestinians were to stage mass sit-ins along the border with Israel, a health official and a witness said. Ahead of...

WASHINGTON (AP):Cranking up pressure on the president, porn actress Stormy Daniels wants Donald Trump to answer her attorney's questions under oath about a pre-election payment aimed at keeping her quiet about their alleged tryst.If she's successful...