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MOSCOW (AP):Ukraine's president put his army on combat alert yesterday along the country's de-facto borders with Crimea and separatist rebels in the east as a war of words between Russia and...

BEIJING (AP):A high-pressure steam pipe exploded at a power station in central China on Thursday, killing 21 people and injuring five others, an official newspaper reported.The blast occurred at a power plant in the city...

BEIRUT (AP):The United Nations Children's Fund said Wednesday it is "extremely" concerned for the safety and wellbeing of children caught up in the violence engulfing the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, including the rebel-held eastern...

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP):United States-backed Libyan forces said on yesterday they have taken over the Islamic State group's headquarters in Sirte, the militants' final bastion in Libya, breaking a weeks-long...

A serial killer known as the 'Grim Sleeper' was sentenced to death yesterday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl which went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack...

ANKARA (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged a group of businessmen on Wednesday to inform authorities about companies or business people they suspect of supporting a US-based Muslim cleric...

WASHINGTON (AP):The parents of two Americans killed in attacks in Benghazi, Libya, say in a lawsuit that Hillary Clinton is responsible for the deaths of their children. A Clinton campaign spokesman...

QUETTA (AP):A suicide bomber killed at least 67 people and wounded dozens more in an attack that struck a government-run hospital in the south western city of Quetta yesterday, police and doctors said.Witnesses described horrifying scenes of bodies...

KABUL, (AP):Five gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms have abducted an American and an Australian in Kabul, a security official said yesterday. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction.The...