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In the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where April temperatures can reach up to 39 degrees Celsius (103 degrees Fahrenheit), the arrival of cooling monsoon rain is something to be celebrated.

In five months in office, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has so far publicly avoided challenging new US President Donald Trump.

At least seven US citizens were injured in the suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, according to two US officials.

The worst drought in a century is forcing the most stringent water restrictions ever implemented for South Africa's second largest city.

President Donald Trump is expected to roll back portions of the Obama opening with Cuba as early as June, according to a US government official involved in the review of current US policy toward the communist-run island.

President Trump says Kathy Griffin should be "ashamed of herself" after the comedian participated in a photo shoot in which she held up a severed head resembling the president.

A huge explosion ripped through the diplomatic quarter of Kabul Wednesday, killing dozens of people and blowing windows out of nearby buildings in one of the deadliest attacks in the Afghan capital in years.

A huge suicide bomb ripped through a secure area of Kabul at the height of the Wednesday morning rush hour, killing at least 80 people and wounding more than 300, Afghan officials said.

Venezuelans are furious with Goldman Sachs for buying the country's government bonds last week, which critics say gives a lifeline to an incompetent government that is starving its people.

After two years of construction and at a cost of $3.8 billion, Kenya's 300-mile high-speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is now open.

It was meant to be the most predictable of election campaigns. A British Prime Minister with a comfortable lead in the polls calling an early election to strengthen her mandate to negotiate Brexit, up against a supposedly weak opposition leader from the unfashionable far left of his party.

Cruise missiles launched by the Russian Navy hit a number of ISIS targets in Palmyra, Syria, Wednesday, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

A deadly explosion struck near the German Embassy in Kabul on Wednesday, May 31, close to a highly secure diplomatic area, Afghan officials said.

A huge explosion hit near the German Embassy in Kabul during rush hour, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds. CNN's Ian Lee has more.

The Philippines military has unleashed a series of air strikes in a push to regain full control of a largely Muslim city that was overrun last week by ISIS-affiliated fighters.

Twin car bombings just hours apart have targeted two groups of people going about their daily lives in Baghdad -- young families having a late night Ramadan snack and older city residents collecting their pensions.

Two US Navy aircraft carriers are expected to begin training together as soon as Wednesday in the Sea of Japan, for a few days in what US military officials say may be interpreted by North Korea as a signal of a more aggressive US military posture.