Malaysian police said on Monday they are investigating the leak of confidential documents that purport to show millions of dollars were funneled to Prime Minister Najib Razak's account, an explosive disclosure that has shaken the ruling coalition in power since 1957.
A suicide car bombing near a military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 26 people on Sunday, local officials said, the latest insurgent attack after foreign forces ended their combat mission there.
The blood on the sand has washed away, but the damage inflicted on Tunisia by a few terrifying minutes of gunfire at a beach resort will be deep and lasting.
Police who seized Asia's largest shipment of liquid cocaine in history at a Bangladeshi port late last month said it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia.
Mexican security forces hunted early Monday for drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as authorities investigated whether he had received inside help to escape prison through a tunnel under his cell's shower.
The Colombian government reached a major de-escalation agreement with leftist FARC guerrillas on Sunday, agreeing for the first time to reduce counterinsurgency operations in the decades-long armed conflict, diplomats in Havana said.
The ceiling of a Russian military barracks collapsed in Siberia on Monday, causing four stories to crumble and killing 23 young men trapped inside.
New York City hosted its first parade supporting people with disabilities on Sunday, with more than 3,000 participants heading up Broadway.
Prosecutors indicted Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation and seized his assets, putting further pressure on him to resign.
Saudi-led air raids killed 21 civilians in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Monday, medics and relatives of the victims said, two days after the start of a United Nations-brokered humanitarian truce that Riyadh does not recognize. "Three missiles targeted the neighborhood, destroying 15 houses and killing 21 people and wounding 45 others," said one resident.
A selfie campaign by Myanmar students promoting cross-cultural friendships has become a rare counterpoint to anti-Muslim rhetoric from hard-line Buddhist monks.
The cries of street vendors have become the soundtrack to Zimbabwe's ailing economy as increasing numbers of the unemployed try to eke out a living, leaving shopkeepers - and the taxman - poorer.
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