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As Turkey returns to some degree of normality following the July 15 coup attempt, which claimed the lives of 246 people and 24 coup plotters, the government has wasted little time in their response.

Dozens of families have started to trickle out of war-ravaged Aleppo, days after the Syrian army announced it had encircled the city and cut off rebel supply routes, according to reports.

A top leadership candidate in Hong Kong has been banned from running in the upcoming elections after the government declared he "cannot possibly fulfill his duties as a legislator" while also pledging allegiance to his pro-independence party.

In just one week, the eyes of the world will be on Rio de Janeiro as the Olympic Games arrive in South America for the first time.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean early Saturday.

CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on the siege of rebel held Aleppo by the Syrian Army, and fears of massive suffering of the civilian population.

A large wing part recently found on a Tanzanian island "highly likely" came from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, according to Australia's transport minister.

A man was beheaded and his wife hacked to death after a disagreement with a grocer, according to authorities in India.

Battlefield success against ISIS may produce more terrorism for the West, FBI Director James Comey warned this week.

DNC hack is criticized by Clinton camp as Russia interference in U.S. election, to help Trump. But Kissinger, Clinton counselor, OKd similar interference by U.S..

The 2016 presidential campaign has not been easy on American Muslims.

At the same time that political tensions between Washington and Moscow were raging this week, the US and Russia calmly handled the emergency landing of a US military aircraft in western Siberia, according to the Pentagon.

Video of a weapons test shows the U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B firing its 25mm gun for the first time.

A U.N. humanitarian convoy under military escort came under Boko Haram gunfire during an ambush in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, the United Nations and Nigerian military said Friday. Three humanitarian staff members and two soldiers were injured.

As all eyes turn to Brazil, the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, we bring you an alternative, cultural guide to the country that gave the world Gisele, Pelé and Walter Salles. Watch the video above for your A to Z of Brazil.

In the Brexit aftermath, many British politicians needed nine lives just to keep hold of their job. Luckily, that won't be a problem for Gladstone.

Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al Nusra has announced it is severing ties with al Qaeda and changing its name to Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, according to a video statement from leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani.

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Pope Francis made a historic visit Friday to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp in Poland, to pay tribute to the more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, who lost their lives there in the Holocaust.