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The United States on Monday announced it would evacuate all non-essential staff from South Sudan as a fifth day of explosions and gun battles in the capital city of Juba raises the specter of a return to civil war.

Angela Merkel has admitted that she effectively invited terrorists into Germany, in a pretty stunning indictment of her own policy.

Nigerian authorities say unidentified gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed over 70 people in the past two weeks in central Benue State.

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates says his country is committed to continue its support of Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report.

Eight soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomb targeted a Somalia military training camp and attackers then entered the base on foot, the military said Monday.

Two people were found dead in the basement of a law firm in Germany following an armed man’s standoff with police, according to reports Monday.

Sierra Leone's foreign minister says no ransom was paid in the release of a diplomat who was abducted and held captive for five days in Nigeria.

A lawyer for Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt says his client has been sentenced to two years in prison and a 200,000 dinar ($1,800) fine for insulting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Habib Wehbe disappeared in 1976, in the first year of Lebanon's 15-year civil war.

The European Court of Human Rights has taken a first step toward issuing a judgment over the treatment of Italy's flamboyant ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who was ousted from parliament in 2013 following a tax fraud conviction.

Italian authorities are investigating whether a body found in the Adriatic Sea could be related to the disappearance of a U.S. airman some 40 kilometers (30 miles) away.

Jordan has given employers hiring Syrian refugees an additional three months to get work permits for them without paying fees.

Pope Francis on Monday named a former Fox TV correspondent, Greg Burke, as his spokesman and tapped a Spanish woman to be the deputy, the first time a woman has held the post.

After all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign.

Leaders of liberal American and Israeli Jewish movements are demanding the right to pray at a Jerusalem holy site and say the Israeli government's lack of progress on giving them those prayer rights is "unjust and insulting." Israel announced in January it would expand and officially recognize a special mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.

Theresa May said Monday she was "honored and humbled" to be chosen as Britain's next prime minister, after the Conservative Party confirmed she would take over from David Cameron this week.

Twin brothers conspired to blow up the US Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa and various Jewish institutions there -- possibly on behalf of the Islamic State terror network, prosecutors announced as they filed charges Monday.