The Palestinians are to push forward a draft UN resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation, despite what they call warnings the United States is ready to veto the measure.
A shootout between rival vigilantes in Michoacan state left 11 dead, authorities said on Tuesday. The federal government's security commissioner for the state, Alfredo Castillo, said the clash pitted two rival vigilante groups against each another in La Ruana, about 240 km from Morelia, the capital. Castillo did not elaborate on what provoked the shootout.
The Pakistani prime minister lifted a moratorium on the death penalty, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a school, killing 132 students and 16 adults, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif visited Kabul on Wednesday to meet Afghanistan's president for talks on enhancing intelligence cooperation a day after the Peshawar school tragedy.
Every day beneath the streets of London, sewer technicians are fighting a grim war against giant fatbergs that clog the system and threaten to regurgitate putrid waste back into people's homes.
When diplomacy and a plea to return sacred ceremonial masks to an American Indian tribe in the United States failed, officials from the Navajo nation traveled to the Paris auction house selling the items and started bidding for them.
Ka Lar Nar caught malaria for the sixth time when he was working on his small farm in the jungle of southeastern Myanmar, but this time it was a lot harder to get rid of it.
Sweden asked the United Nations on Monday to reopen an inquiry into the mysterious death of former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold more than 50 years ago, citing new evidence and a need to close "an open wound."
Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where two of 17 hostages were killed on Tuesday when police stormed into a cafe to rescue them from a gunman - a self-styled cleric described by Australia's prime minister as a deeply disturbed person carrying out a "sick fantasy".
A Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday expressed the country's condolences for the two hostages killed in the Sydney cafe siege.
The three teenage girls from the US state of Colorado swapped Twitter messages about marriage and religion with recruiters for the Islamic State group, then set out for Syria with passports and thousands of dollars in stolen cash. Authorities intercepted them in Germany, then returned them to their families without criminal charges.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slammed the US government on Monday over sanctions against senior officials of his administration for alleged violations of human rights.
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