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All Hosea Knox wanted was to own his own business.

An exchange of gunfire ensued in which all four were killed, while one Taliban soldier was wounded.

Mukherjee, when he was vice-chancellor, had asked Tagore to write two songs on the occasion of the foundation day of the Calcutta University in 1935.

The lack of clarity is fuelling concern among Afghans and the international community that the hardline Islamists are heading towards imposing the same brutal policies against women

An impromptu border camp that roiled the U.S. government was cleared of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled on deportation flights or returned to Mexico.

For the United States, COVID-19 was about leadership and a dose of hope. For Iran, it was about the inhumanity of sanctions. Tiny Palau, largely virus-free, used its precious speech minutes to praise Taiwan for its support during the pandemic and, not in...

An impromptu border camp that roiled U.S. politics was emptied of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled on deportation flights or returned to Mexico.

Wisconsin Republicans on Thursday reiterated their concerns about the vetting of Afghan refugees being housed at an Army post in the state, after two Afghan men were charged with crimes there.

South Korea's call to declare a formal end to the Korean War is premature as there is no guarantee it would lead to the withdrawal of the "U.S. hostile policy" toward Pyongyang, North Korea state media KCNA reported on Friday, citing Vice Foreign Minister...

Peruvian authorities on Thursday said they had decided to cremate the body of Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Shining Path rebel group that killed tens of thousands of people in the 1980s and 1990s, and spread his ashes in an undisclosed location.

Candidates vying to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor clashed on Thursday on tax, debt and foreign policy in a final television debate as opinion polls showed the race tightening three days before a federal election.

Azerbaijan on Thursday filed a case at the United Nations' top court accusing neighboring Armenia of a policy of ethnic cleansing targeting Azerbaijanis.

Hundreds of Haitian asylum seekers congregated outside Mexico's refugee agency in the capital and in shelters in the northern city of Monterrey on Wednesday, as migrants deterred by a crackdown at the U.S. border sought legal status in Mexico.

Leaders who are playing at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that's in the same boat, but firstclass passengers get the lifeboats. A United Nations that resembles a retired superhero" that has lost sight of what...

Scientists have found evidence of a resistant form of malaria in Uganda, a worrying sign that the top drug used against the parasitic disease could ultimately be rendered useless without more action to stop its spread.

An inmate on a New York City jail barge died Wednesday after an apparent medical emergency, the citys Department of Correction said. It is at least the 12th death of a city inmate this year and the second this week amid what some elected officials and adv...