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The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.

Twenty-one-year-old Khaled Khatib is a cinematographer and press officer for the Syrian White Helmets.

Hundreds of students blockaded the entrances to their schools in Paris Thursday, demanding justice for a young black man who was allegedly raped by French police earlier this month.

As transgender people fight for their basic civil liberties globally, courts in 20 countries have ruled on legislation recognizing their rights,

This week, we have seen reports that a former British inmate of Guantanamo Bay, Jamal Udeen al-Harith, carried out an ISIS suicide attack in Iraq.

This week the Chinese government finally gave Donald Trump's company trademark protection for use of his name in the construction industry.

Peace in Eastern Ukraine remains tenuous as a spate of violations of a newly implemented ceasefire continued overnight into Wednesday.

"Let us turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland!" declares one of North Korea's 310 official patriotic slogans published this year on behalf of the country's young leader, Marshall Kim Jong-un.

A major European conglomerate says one of its employees in South Korea has gone missing -- along with $100 million.

Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Average life expectancy will increase globally by 2030, both at birth and at the age of 65, according to a new study.

Marine Le Pen's bid to become French president has become embroiled in a police investigation after her bodyguard and chief of staff were questioned and placed in custody Wednesday.

When Beyoncé dropped her album "Lemonade" in April last year, it blew up the Internet and went platinum around the world. But for Somali poets across the diaspora it symbolized the rise of their art into the mainstream.

Russia hit back Wednesday over allegations it was involved in a failed coup in Montenegro and an attempt to assassinate the country's former Prime Minister, describing the claims as damaging to relations between the two nations.

Crews working on an English harbor found an unexploded World War II-era German bomb containing 290 pounds of explosives.

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign a new executive order this week that would temporarily halt travel from citizens of seven nations he says pose a high risk of terrorism.