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The United Nations says more than a million people could soon be displaced as a result of the fighting in Iraq.

European Union chief Jean Claude Juncker has branded borders the “worst invention ever” in an astonishing blast.

A Saudi newspaper is reporting that an Egyptian man has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of attempting to disturb public order, violating the kingdom's labor laws and communicating with a sorcerer to bewitch his employer.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a retired Dutch general to lead an independent investigation into allegations that U.N.

A semi-official news agency in Iran is reporting that Tehran's City Council has voted to rename a street near the Saudi Embassy for a Shiite cleric executed by the Sunni-ruled kingdom in January.

Iraqi forces say they have surrounded an oil refinery after launching a push to retake the Islamic State-held town of Qayara, south of Mosul.

Yemen's Transportation Ministry says 7,600 Yemenis are unable to return home after a Saudi-led military coalition ordered the closure of the international airport amid stepped-up airstrikes against Shiite Houthi rebels.

A political leader who could soon become the mayor of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, may not be able to step inside the mayor's office for months -- because he's reportedly sitting in prison on a string of charges, including arranging health care for terrorists.

Sudan said Tuesday it is hosting South Sudan's former rebel leader and vice president, whose whereabouts had been unknown after he fled his country into neighboring Congo last week.

Turkish media are saying that Turkey's artillery has shelled Islamic State targets across the border in Syria.

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Storms caused a big spike in the number of trees blown down or severely damaged in forests where migrating monarch butterflies spend the winter in central Mexico, experts reported Tuesday.

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Israeli police are on high alert ahead of a match between Celtic and Hapoel Beer Sheva after fans of the Scottish champion waved Palestinian flags at their last meeting.

A self-styled head-of-state arrived in New York this week seeking, like countless others before him, to establish goodwill, form diplomatic ties and attract investment. But Vít Jedlička most important and daunting task is to make the case that his nascent “nation” actually exists.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he expects talks with China on a long-simmering territorial dispute to start possibly this year, and urged Beijing to allow Filipinos to fish at a disputed shoal.

The U.N.-backed tribunal trying members of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and other crimes has turned its attention to forced marriages, with witnesses testifying how such bonds were supposed to serve the state rather than personal desires.

The American-led UN Command in South Korea on Tuesday accused North Korea of planting land mines near a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.

Kosovo police say that the public broadcaster's building has been attacked with a hand grenade that caused material damage.

The U.S. military said Tuesday an Army soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb during an operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.