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The banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent was used to kill Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler's outcast half brother who was attacked by two women who rubbed the substance on his face at the airport in Malaysia's capital last week, police said Friday.

The half brother of North Korea's leader who was killed in a Kuala Lumpur airport more than a week ago had a nerve agent on his eye and his face, according to Malaysian police.

While Japanese officials assert that the radiation levels around homes in Iitate have been brought down to an acceptable level since the disaster, Greenpeace said that a survey team it sent into the village found radiation dose rates at houses that were well above long-term government targets.

Bosnia has asked the United Nation's top court to reconsider its 2007 ruling that cleared Serbia of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Holt is being held in a prison run by Venezuela's intelligence police, which also holds a number of activists that the opposition considers political prisoners.

Malaysian authorities probing the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s half-brother are now trying to figure out how one of the prime suspects went from 28-year-old Vietnamese beauty and singing contestant to alleged cold-blooded killer in a matter of months.

A woman who once attempted suicide hopes to uplift other depressed women – by sending them to the grave.

Paris teenagers blockaded high schools with burning garbage cans and skirmished with riot officers at an unauthorized protest Thursday, angered by the alleged rape of a young black man with a police baton and other police abuse.

A woman has been killed by flying debris in central England as storm winds of more than 90 mph (145 kph) batter the United Kingdom.

While campaigning last year to become Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Marcelo Crivella, a retired Pentecostal bishop, insisted his faith would not get in the way of governing the nation's most famous city.

The Russian government has launched its own “fake news” watchdog service.

Now this is what you call workplace innovation.

Iraqi federal police forces – backed by the U.S. – entered Mosul International Airport and took control of the runway, an Iraqi official said Thursday.

A blast in Pakistan left six people dead Thursday, Reuters reported, citing a local television station.

A blast in Pakistan left six people dead Thursday, Reuters reported, citing a local television station.

North Korea denied Thursday that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half brother of leader Kim Jong Un, saying a Malaysian investigation into the death of one of its nationals is full of "holes and contradictions."

In total, there were 1,938 homicides in January, up 34 percent from 1,442 in the same month last year.

Canadian border officials are spotting a noteworthy trend: The number of people sneaking in from the US and asking for asylum has gone way up. One popular route leads into Quebec.

The decision was made public last week by TV Globo, which created the luscious icon 26 years ago.