President says foreign powers backing rebels will pay price
A typhoon killed at least 12 people as it churned across the Philippines and shut down the capital, cutting power and prompting the evacuation of more than 370,000 people, rescue officials said on Wednesday.
Homes of Hamas leaders targeted; Palestinian death toll climbs to 208
New HIV infections and deaths from AIDS are decreasing, the United Nations said on Wednesday, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it "in every region, in every country".
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger underwent heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Tuesday and was resting comfortably, hospital officials said.
A nuclear power plant in southern Japan cleared an initial safety hurdle on Wednesday, which could make it the first such facility to restart under tough new safety regulations after the industry was idled by the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged the European Union to take tough action against Russia over the separatist conflict in Ukraine's eastern regions at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Wednesday.
Fatal shooting of US comic book icon praised as 'perfect tribute'
Better known for its inhospitable desert plains than beach breaks, Turkmenistan this month welcomed an unlikely group of visitors: a sun-tanned crop of the world's top windsurfers.
Pressure mounts for achievement of agricultural self-sufficiency
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