A US-led coalition airstrike this month killed the leader of an al-Qaida offshoot in Syria that US officials accuse of plotting attacks against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said.
Women in Malaysia - long seen as a moderate Islamic nation - have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.
The final hours of two British backpackers killed on a Thai resort island last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the resumption of the trial of two men from Myanmar accused of their murder.
The nuclear pact could eventually help many Iranian-Americans who have struggled with red tape, shuttered accounts and even criminal prosecution to conduct bank transactions, although relief seems unlikely anytime soon.
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers rallied in Kiev on Tuesday to protest government policies following a deadly standoff between radical nationalists and police in the country's west.
Dashboard camera video released on Tuesday involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell showed how the incident quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper.
A leading Nazi hunter has asked Denmark to investigate a 90-year-old Dane suspected of being involved in the mass murder of Jews in Belarus during World War II.
Greece's leftist government urged disgruntled lawmakers on Wednesday to back reforms required for talks on a rescue deal to start, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced his second major test in parliament in a week.
A senior German lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party on Wednesday warned the Greek government not to backtrack on its reform commitments.
A Myanmar court sentenced 153 Chinese citizens to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of illegal logging in the northern state of Kachin, Thailand's The Nation reported on Wednesday.
The children had all been shown videos of beheadings and were told by their trainers with the Islamic State group that they would perform one someday. First, they had to practice technique. More than 120 boys were each given a doll and a sword and were told: cut off its head.
Hollywood actor George Clooney launched an initiative on Monday to track down and help bring to justice those funding and profiting from Africa's deadliest conflicts in a bid to fight corruption in war zones.
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