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The nuclear-powered carrier USS Carl Vinson set anchor off the port city of Danang on Monday, where US combat troops first landed in the war, making this a highly symbolic location
Losses for the Facebook CEO topped those of Spain’s Amancio Ortega and Mexico’s Carlos Slim, who were both down US$2.4 billion as of 1pm in New York.
Pakistani citizens have elected a woman from the country's marginalized Hindu minority to the senate for the first time ever in an election in which a Taliban-linked cleric was defeated
The man approached the White House's fence on Pennsylvania Avenue just before Saturday noon local time (17:00GMT) before taking out a handgun and firing several shots
An armed group on Friday attacked the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the country’s military headquarters, the government said, adding that six assailants had been killed
As attacks in the Syrian enclave continued during first truce attempt, a second try to evacuate the injured begins
Russia says it has done its part to usher in calm in the militant-besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, where it has announced a humanitarian pause, saying the ball is now in the court of militants and their supporters
The US Treasury Department on Tuesday added “ISIS-Bangladesh,” along with six other jihadist organizations and two individuals connected to Islamic State, to its sanctions list for global terrorism
European Union foreign ministers agreed to prepare sanctions against Myanmar generals over the killings of Rohingya Muslims and to strengthen the EU arms embargo, accusing state security forces of grave human rights abuses
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman reshuffled some of the kingdom’s top military officers and several deputy ministers on Monday in a broad shakeup seen as elevating younger officials in key economic and security areas. The monarch a
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations
66 feared dead as plane crashes in Iran mountains
Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba resigns
Five people have been killed and several others injured in a gun attack on a crowd of churchgoers in Dagestan in southern Russia, local police confirmed. The shooter was killed by security forces
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has no objection to plans to turn the euro zone’s bailout fund into a European Monetary Fund
Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year
Google has been fined 1.36 billion rupees (£15.2 million; $21.2 million) by India's competition regulator for abusing its dominance in the country
India’s tiger census, which began late last year, will see coordination with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh in estimating the territorial spread of the animal in the subcontinent.
