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To defeat Islamist extremism we need to come to a common agreement, with a clear perspective, on what is the cause of this global threat.

Starting a new business in New Zealand takes less than one day. In Venezuela, it takes 230.

A British Airways flight from San Francisco to London was diverted to Vancouver Tuesday morning after members of the cabin crew became ill, the airline said.

Venezuela is edging closer every day to its breaking point.

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but may not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home.

A team of workers in France began the long-awaited demolition of the "Jungle" migrant camp on Tuesday, pulling down tents, shacks and other makeshift shelters that thousands have called home over the past two years.

Anne Danyale can never go back to Mosul.

Teachers and students say the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric on display during this year's election campaign appears to have seeped into the classrooms, creating a new level of fear and anxiety among students of color.

America's longest war received only a passing mention during the three debates between American presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket an average of 22% for the benchmark silver plan in 2017, according to a government report released Monday.

The military operation to retake Mosul from ISIS continues, but what are the strategies used on both sides? CNN's Fred Pleitgen breaks it down.

When it comes to architectural innovation, some of the most significant changes to urban skylines over the past half-century have occurred in Asia.

Deborah Ory discovered dance photography when she could no longer be a dancer herself.

The terrifying scene has played out time and again. Amid a chaotic battlefield, an unknown vehicle barrels across the Nineveh plains, kicking up clouds of dust in its wake. It's speeding toward Iraqi or Kurdish Peshmerga front lines with a cargo of high explosives. Soldiers fire rockets and missiles in a frantic effort to destroy the vehicle before it kills them. Sometimes they find their target; sometimes not.

Five years on from the inglorious end to Gadhafi's life, ordinary Libyans reveal their memories of the moment they heard the dictator had died and share their hopes for the future of their homeland.

The death of Tom Hayden -- the iconic anti-war and civil rights activist, who was perhaps the most recognizable face of the New Left in the 1960s -- represents a great loss to all who believe in social justice.

Louisiana and Oklahoma have said "nyet" to a Russian request to send its diplomats to monitor polling stations on Election Day, according to letters from state officials provided to CNN.

The Russian hack is a warning sign of things to come, writes Amy Zegart. The US had better be prepared

Microsoft products are about to get a whole lot more expensive for U.K. buyers.

Last-minute negotiations to salvage the European Union's signature free trade agreement have been dealt a major blow by a rogue regional government in Belgium.