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North Korea's military launched a ballistic missile towards the sea Thursday, prompting a false alarm that caused Japan to issue brief evacuation warnings for the island of Hokkaido. South Korea’s…

The Gulf nations of Bahrain and Qatar agreed to restore diplomatic relations late Wednesday. Bahrain had been the last holdout of four Arab nations that imposed a boycott and blockade…

U.S. Central Command forces over the weekend captured an ISIS operative and his associates in a helicopter raid that the command believes will help further destabilize the terrorist group.  CENTCOM…

A week of floods has displaced thousands of families in a part of western Burundi where a river separates the country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local…

China warned on Wednesday that strengthening ties between the U.S. and the Philippines should not harm its security and territorial interests, including longstanding tensions in the South China Sea. Chinese…

Pratima Kumari, a government health worker in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, sets off on her mini scooter every morning, crisscrossing vast corn fields and pineapple orchards to visit…

A man who allegedly piloted a small boat packed with migrants that capsized while crossing the English Channel in December has been charged with four counts of manslaughter. Ibrahima Bah,…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives. Neither Petro nor the Defense Ministry elaborated on reasons for…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on world leaders to react immediately Wednesday after a video emerged purportedly showing a Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by Russian-speaking men in a gruesome…

Belgian authorities have decided to move the key suspect at the heart of the corruption scandal rocking the European Union’s assembly from jail and place her under house arrest, the…