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  Ottawa - A Canadian court on Friday granted bail to former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured on...

  Riyadh - Saudi Arabia said Friday it has foiled a bomb plot by the Islamic State group and blamed the jihadists for shooting...

Accra - Three people have died and 14 others required medical treatment after inhaling toxic fumes at a gold mine in Ghana, the...

Iqaluit, Canada - Ministers from Arctic nations gathered in northern Canada on Friday to shine a spotlight on one of the planet's most...

Bujumbura, Burundi - Burundi's government on Friday announced a nationwide ban on demonstrations following threats by the opposition and activists to step up...

  Moscow - Russian lawmakers on Friday backed a mass prisoner amnesty proposed by President Vladimir Putin that could free thousands ahead of next...

Tunis - Two Tunisian soldiers and 10 presumed jihadists have been killed in clashes in rugged terrain near the border with Algeria this...

Puerto Varas, Chile - Southern Chile remained on alert Friday for another eruption from the Calbuco volcano after it burst into life in...

Tokyo - Extremely high levels of radiation have been discovered in a playground in Tokyo, officials said Friday, fanning fears for the health...

Washington - Korean Lee Yong-Soo was forced into sexual slavery serving Japan's imperial army. Seventy years later, with Japan's prime minister preparing a...

Jakarta - Diplomats scrambled Friday to visit their citizens on death row in Indonesia as authorities made final preparations to haul several foreign...

Manchester, United Kingdom - Inside the Paradise Mini-Mart, older residents of Manchester's notorious Moss Side district are taking a young man to task...

GALLIPOLI PENINSULA, Turkey - Turkey on Friday hosts world leaders to commemorate the centenary of the World War I battle of Gallipoli, sending...

Wellington - A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake rattled New Zealand on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities saying there were no...

Kinshasa - Three members of the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo were kidnapped Thursday in the eastern North...

Beijing - Leaders of China's Communist Party will meet the chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party early next month, state media said...

Yavoriv, Ukraine - US paratrooper Gregory Crocker is giving a group of Ukrainian soldiers lesson one in dealing with an unexploded bomb: don't...

Petrinja , Croatia - More than two decades and therapy have done little to heal Ana Horvatinec's trauma of wartime rape by her...