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Two US sailors Tuesday admitted raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa last October, news reports said, in a case that ...

Several hundred Islamists have been killed in airstrikes and direct combat in Mali since France launched an offensive ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Saturday denied that her government was in chaos, after the resignation of two ...

A senior Cuban official lashed out at President Barack Obama for linking improved human rights in the country to ...

Thirty-seven foreigners of eight different nationalities were killed during the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas ...

President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to renew "strong alliances" around the world, saying that the United States was ...

The United States and China have made a deal under which the UN Security Council will expand existing sanctions ...

Venezuela`s newly appointed foreign minister said the decree that installed him in office is proof that ailing ...

Iran and the UN atomic watchdog agreed Thursday to resume talks over the Islamic state`s disputed nuclear activities ...

Suicides in the US military rose to a record level last year, with 349 troops taking their lives, despite concerted ...

Rape has been a "significant" weapon of war in the conflict raging in Syria since March 2011 and is the "primary" ...

A North Korean official has apparently told Chinese authorities that the communist state is planning to conduct a ...

The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria`s chemical weapons if President Bashar al-Assad falls ...

Haitian ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide answered prosecutors' questions Wednesday in a landmark investigation for ...

Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it had used chemical weapons against ethnic minority rebels in the northern ...