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A senior U.S. military official told Fox News Thursday that the U.S.-led coalition has killed 50,000 Islamic State militants in the last two years in Iraq and Syria.

A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to warn that tsunami waves were possible in several South Pacific islands.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jake Frederick was killed Wednesday when his F/A-18 fighter jet crashed off the coast of Japan, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman told Fox News on Thursday.

As Iraqi forces advanced toward the al-Salam hospital in Mosul earlier this week, encountering only light resistance from Islamic State fighters, commanders decided to seize the facility instead of sweeping the neighborhoods along the road leading to it.

A beer-drinking hooligan snuck up behind a young woman in a German subway station — and randomly kicked her down a flight of stairs, sending her tumbling to the ground below, a shocking new video shows.

The leader of Chechnya says troops in the Russian province would be happy to fight the "scum" in Syria.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to warn that tsunami waves were possible in several South Pacific islands.

A court in Azerbaijan has handed a 10-year prison sentence to a youth activist who was convicted on heroin possession charges in a verdict that Amnesty International is denouncing as politically motivated.

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The legislation reflects a larger cultural clash between western democratic values and those of traditional Muslims. Some Germans see their core beliefs coming under siege.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will continue to counter foreign influence over its domestic affairs through non-government organizations.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has declared that foreigners in France should go through a "waiting period" before benefiting from the country's social services and that children whose parents are in France illegally shouldn't be allowed free schooling.

The finance chief of Britain says he sees big opportunities to build on trade ties with South Africa, which is Britain's biggest export market in Africa.

A human rights group says 11 more people jailed for peacefully protesting have now been released in Gambia.

Dutch police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl in Britain in 2008 thanks to his image being uploaded to a European "most-wanted" website that was publicized with an Advent calendar .

Pope Francis has recalled struggling families, the jobless and those forced to take "undignified" work as Rome's holiday season begins.

A black woman often described as Canada's Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater will be the first woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote.

A leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement is pressing for a vote on whether the country should keep the euro as its official currency.

Walmart's Mexico unit will invest $1.3 billion over the next three years, company officials announced Wednesday at an event with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.