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The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told a small group of donors in New York City on Friday that he’s looking at a third White House bid, said Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney’s finance chairman in…

The United States hailed Friday the “significant” release of at least 35 political prisoners in the past 48 hours in Cuba, part of moves to normalize ties between the two countries.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, a member of the group told AP in a statement Friday.

US justice department and the FBI have recommended filing criminal charges against former CIA chief David Petraeus for allegedly leaking classified information to his subordinate, with whom he had…

East African foreign ministers met in Mogadishu on Saturday to push peace efforts in war-torn Somalia, the first time the regional bloc has met in the country for almost three decades.

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The US military will close 15 air bases in Europe, including several in Germany, and a major base in Britain, outgoing US defense secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed.

The two brothers, Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, wanted for the shooting of 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were killed in a raid on Friday by security forces on the…

Egypt will hold a parliamentary election in two stages from March 21 to May 7, its first since the July 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, organizers said. The vote is expected to…

A three-judge panel in Peru on Thursday sentenced former president Alberto Fujimori to eight years in prison and fined him $1 million on charge of funneling more than $40…

The British foreign secretary blamed the shooting at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the West’s intervention in the Middle East, Russian news agency TASS said in a report…

South Korea plans to deport a Korean-American woman accused of praising rival North Korea in a recent lecture, officials said Friday.

The Korea Immigration Service decided to deport Shin…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel set strict terms Thursday for easing EU sanctions on Russia as the 28-nation bloc unlocked new aid to help Ukraine overcome its revolt.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost his bid for a third term on Friday, ending a decade of rule. Official results showed Maithripala Sirisena, a former ally of the incumbent, had won 51.3…

Eastern Ukraine is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe, as residents struggle to get food and medicine, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report. The UN refugee watchdog added that…

Twelve years ago, one of the two brothers suspected of the shootings at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was a young man like many others in France, but between 2003, when Cherif Kouachi…

Hooded gunmen attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing at least 12 people, including two police officers in the worst militant attack on French soil in recent…

Does the vote of Americans depend on which news channel they watch? If they are regular viewers of Fox News, will they become more likely to vote for Republican? Until recently, it has been…

Somalia’s Shebab militants have executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the country’s internationally-backed government, officials and witnesses said.

Cuba has freed some of the 53 political prisoners identified on a US list as it moves towards normalizing ties with the United States, an American official said Tuesday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Tuesday that the state of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a move that will enable the Palestinians to pursue war-crimes…

The number of displaced people being assisted by the United Nations’ refugee agency reached an all-time high of 46.3 million in the middle of last year, the agency said in its biannual report…

About 30 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a car blast outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, officials say.

The vehicle exploded beside dozens of cadets and people…

Search teams spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea on Wednesday, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after Flight 8501 disappeared with 162 people on…

The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district on Tuesday that killed one officer and wounded…

South Korea's defense ministry said Tuesday that North Korea appeared to have achieved a "significant" level of technology to miniaturize a nuclear device to be fitted on the tip of a missile.