Security forces went on full alert in the southern Philippines on Sunday, police said, after military intelligence reported sightings of Islamist militants in the region after the detention of a top al-Qaeda-linked leader.
Sarajevo marks 100 years since the assassination that triggered World War I on Saturday, but without the leaders of Europe and with its people still torn over the legacy of that fateful day.
Before sunrise on June 28, 1914, a pack of cyclists set off from Paris on the 12th Tour de France. Hours later, an Austrian archduke stepped out in Sarajevo and was assassinated in the street, igniting the carnage of World War I.
Nearly 9 million US military veterans were promised free medical care through the Veterans Administration when they signed on for duty. Now the challenge for lawmakers is finding the money to fix a healthcare system that many say is broken.
Ukraine's new president signed a trade and economic pact with the European Union on Friday, pushing his troubled country closer into a European orbit and angering Russia, which warned of unspecified consequences.
Some 110,000 Ukrainians have fled this year for Russia and another 54,000 have fled their homes but stayed in the country as Ukraine fights separatist rebels, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron set out a last-ditch case against the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker for European Commission president on Friday, trying to enforce a point of principle that raises the risk of Britain leaving the European Union.
Russia's UN ambassador says there is a real prospect of a terrorist state springing up from Syria's Aleppo to Iraq's capital Baghdad.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Friday that its leader Kim Jong-un has guided the test launches of its newly developed precision guided missiles, in a possible reference to three short-range projectiles officials from the Republic of Korea say the DPRK fired toward its waters a day earlier.
Charismatic cats once trained for emperors now struggle for survival
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