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Mexican authorities say the former assistant prosecutor of Baja California Sur state has been assassinated just a few months after he was fired for alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.

The 45 minutes my bride and I spent hiding in a beauty salon closet at Ataturk airport passed like an eternity, as the sound of gunfire and bullets ricocheting through the concourse outside echoed in our ears.

Islamic State (ISIS) militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, in a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants' transit link between the two countries, a rebel spokesman said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has apologized to high school students over the leaking of national exams.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has defended the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, which sparked the largest protests of his presidency and was declared unconstitutional last week.

The coordinated massacre at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport came into clearer focus Wednesday as officials revealed a more detailed timeline of the terror attack that killed 42 and wounded 238.

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria says there's just not enough agreement yet to resume peace talks ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline to start a political transition.

The data recorder of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month indicates there was smoke on board the aircraft, investigators said Wednesday.

Egyptian investigators say wreckage from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May shows "signs of damage because of high temperature" and a flight data recorder indicates there was smoke on board.

The deadly terror attack at Turkey's largest airport has posed an all-too-familiar question to security officials: how to protect passengers and bystanders from such carnage? The attackers arrived via taxi like many other passengers to Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night.

The United Nations Security Council voted Wednesday to increase the U.N.'s peacekeeping force in Mali by more than 2,500 troops, a move aimed at countering increasing attacks by Islamic extremists on civilians and peacekeepers and more aggressively enabling a peace agreement between the government and rebels.

It’s a sighting that made many people sweat.

A North Korean propaganda channel has published a video showing a missile allegedly targeting the U.S. territory of Guam in the northwestern Pacific.

International terror attacks seemingly inspired by the Islamic State group are increasing as its fortunes fall in Syria and Iraq.

President Vladimir Putin has extended Russia's ban on imports of Western food until the end of 2017.

Two prominent human rights groups are calling on the General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia's membership on the United Nation's top human rights body.

Police attempts to recapture a drug trafficker who escaped from a Brazilian hospital have led to deadly gunbattles in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

The United Nations is increasing its peacekeeping force in Mali by more than 2,500 troops.

Two former employees of an accounting firm have been found guilty of leaking thousands of secret documents to a journalist investigating sweetheart tax deals granted by Luxembourg to big foreign firms.

Crews said they rescued dozens of teenagers who'd vanished in the mountains of South Wales Wednesday after a search that stretched on for hours.