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From America to Britain to the United Nations, women are taking to the center of the political stage. At this week's Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton was officially selected as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, accepting the nomination with a striking video message that opened with a symbolic shattering of glass.

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An ISIS hostage-taking at an oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has ended with the attackers killed and their captives safely freed, a senior security source in the city told CNN.

In what may be a sign of a cultural shift in India, well-known Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted of raping an American researcher.

Hundreds of soldiers detained in the fallout of the July 15 coup attempt have been released, Turkish state media reported.

Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide car bombings Sunday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, an attack that left five civilians and a police officer dead.

The outbreak of terror attacks in Northern Europe has also translated into growing hostility toward migration, writes Tim Lister.

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.