The Afghan Taliban on Sunday reiterated pre-conditions for the resumption of peace talks with Kabul, including their removal from international terror blacklists, at an informal meeting with lawmakers and activists in Doha.
Somalia's security forces ended a deadly siege of a beachfront restaurant in Mogadishu, with more than 20 people killed in the attack, a police official said on Friday.
A massive winter storm was barreling toward Washington on Friday, with the system poised to drop near-record snowfall on the US capital before battering New York and other East Coast cities with blizzard conditions.
Japan has ordered the deportation of Ric O'Barry, the star of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, about a Japanese village that hunts dolphins. But he has refused to leave, insisting he came as a tourist to look at dolphins.
For more than a century, St. George's School in Rhode Island has been part of the pedigree of some of the richest and most influential families in the United States.
The African tiger at the zoo in the Gaza Strip was emaciated, its belly shrunken and its striped coat hanging loose. It strode nervously up and down its cage.
Six more bodies have been found after two migrant boats sank off Greek islands early on Friday, raising the toll to 21 with dozens still missing, the coast guard said.
Inside a traveling aquatic circus in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, whoops and cheers go up as a dolphin leaps out of a pool and slam-dunks a ball through a basketball net.
The solar system may host a ninth planet that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune, according to research published on Wednesday.
The head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century was returned by France and reattached to its body on Thursday for display at a museum, more than 130 years after it was spirited away.
After decades checking their rearview mirrors for the threat from rail and air transport, truckers around the world are facing their latest rival head-on: driverless trucks.
A court in the Republic of Korea said in a statement on Thursday that it had acquitted a ROK citizen of sympathizing with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for following its Twitter account. It said that simply reading Pyongyang's social media posts did not violate the security laws of the country.
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