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Dawn Sturgess, 44, was one of five people who have become critically after being exposed to Novichok in the Salisbury area.

The Pentagon says the U.S. service member killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan was a soldier from California.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said North Korea's recent condemnation of the United States has "China's hands all over

Pompeo brushes aside North Korea's harsh rebuke of 'gangster-like' demands, vows sanctions will remain until pledge to rid North of nuclear weapons is met.

Thai authorities have asked media to leave the area around the entrance of the cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped for two weeks, fueling speculation that a rescue mission could be imminent.

U.S. and Afghan Special Forces are completing an operation to clear Islamic State fighters from a remote district in Nangarhar, the eastern province where they have their main stronghold in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.

Thai mission commander Narongsak Osottanakorn, the head of the rescue mission, says they will they will do everything they can to minimize the risk to the boy's lives

The tech billionaire is sending his top employees to rescue 12 schoolboys and their coach from a flooded Thai cave. They plant to insert a nylon tube and inflate it 'like a bouncy castle' to create a tunnel.

For the first time in history , the three wealthiest people on the planet made their fortunes from technology. As Bloomberg reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world's third-richest person. Zuckerberg, 34, is

The new poll found that 78 per cent of Germans were somewhat, or completely, dissatisfied with Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, an increase by 15 per cent since June.

The parties in Germany's ruling coalition on Thursday reached agreement on a package of measures to deal with asylum-seekers who have already registered in other European Union states, and vowed to push ahead with animmigration law before year's e

Brazil says condemnation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the torture and death of well-known journalist Vladimir Herzog during the country's military dictatorship is "just."

There could be as many as 400,000 illegal immigrants living in Seine-Saint-Denis according to a report from the French parliament.

Syrian government forces supported by Russian military police have taken over a key border crossing with Jordan after a deal was reached between rebels and Russian mediators, Syrian state media and a war monitor say.

Chen Jieren is taken away and his colleagues warned not to report on his detention or to record official gag orders in any way.

Riots rocked a French city for the second straight night Wednesday after the fatal police shooting of a driver apparently trying to avoid an identity check.

"You never expect to open a fridge and find someone in there alive," a mortuary worker said

The U.S. has evacuated at least a dozen Americans from China amid growing concerns about possible attacks on U.S. diplomats.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition risked breaking apart Monday, as her hardline conservative Bavarian allies pushed a showdown over migrant policy after she was unmoved by her interior minister's threat to resign.The global networ

On the Greek island, struggling tourists claim they were given no food or water for hours as the plane waited on the tarmac. The mercury continued to rise, resulting in passengers fainting and vomiting