U.S. and South Korean military officials said Friday they're ready to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea to cope with North Korean threats.
The former commander in chief of the Chilean army has been taken into custody for his alleged participation in the killing of 15 left-wing militants at the start of that country's military dictatorship in 1973.
Saudi Arabia has identified suspects in two of the three attacks that stuck the kingdom this week, including one outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in the western city of Medina that killed four security troops.
An Argentine judge has frozen the bank accounts of former President Cristina Fernandez as part of an investigation into allegations of defrauding the state in her administration's handling of the dollar futures market.
An environmental and indigenous rights activist in Honduras has been killed four months after the slaying of award-winning environmentalist Berta Caceres stirred international outrage.
Shell says it has lifted force majeure on the export of Nigeria's benchmark Bonny Light crude oil almost two months after militant attacks on a pipeline.
A woman who was stabbed and left for dead by Palestinian terrorists who butchered her American friend in 2010 said Wednesday she was enraged by a government TV report that labeled one of the killers a “heroic prisoner.”
An explosion and fire on a train wounded at least 21 people Thursday in Taiwan's capital city of Taipei, local media reported, as police said a pre-made explosive that looked like a firecracker triggered the blast.
A state-owned Russian television station on Thursday broadcast video of what it claimed to be a brawl between a U.S. diplomat and a Russian security guard at an entrance to the American Embassy in Moscow.
The Israeli prime minister's office says pieces of wreckage believed to be from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in May have been found on the coast of Israel.
The number of American travelers to Cuba rose 84 percent for the first half of the year compared with the same January-June period in 2015, authorities said Thursday.
The man who led efforts to impeach Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff resigned on Thursday as speaker of the lower house of congress, but kept the congressional seat that could help shield him from corruption charges.
The Anglican reverend known as the “Vicar of Baghdad” after defiantly remaining at his Iraqi parish even as war raged all around him a decade ago is being investigated by the United Kingdom for allegedly paying ransom to ISIS to free sex slaves.