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September 10, 2018

Pakistan army chief confirms death sentences for 13 Taliban

Pakistan's army chief has confirmed death sentences for 13 "hardcore terrorists" after military courts found them guilty of ...

September 10, 2018

The Latest: More Taliban attacks reported on Afghan forces

The Latest on violence in Afghanistan (all times local): 5:00 p.m. Zahir Wahdat, provincial governor of Sari Pul province ...

September 10, 2018

6 dead in blast at district headquarters in Somali capital

At least six people are dead after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gate of a district ...

September 10, 2018

Pence confident no one on his staff wrote NY Times column

Vice President Mike Pence says he's "100 percent confident" that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York ...

September 10, 2018

Yemeni detainees in UAE-run prison start hunger strike

Dozens of Yemeni detainees, including some tortured at the hands of Emirati forces, have started a hunger strike to protest ...

September 10, 2018

Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China

China's government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying ...

September 09, 2018

Pence: I'm confident no one on my staff wrote the NYT column

Vice President Mike Pence says he's "100 percent confident" that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York ...

September 09, 2018

The Latest: Pence: I'd take lie detector test over NYT essay

The Latest on Vice President Mike Pence (all times local): 10:10 a.m. Vice President Mike Pence says he'd agree to take a lie ...

September 09, 2018

US: Goal remains peaceful return to democracy in Venezuela

The Trump administration says its preference for the peaceful, orderly return to democracy in Venezuela remains "unchanged.

September 09, 2018

Jewish group in Germany condemns 'strongly rooted' extremism

An attack on a kosher restaurant by masked neo-Nazis on the sidelines of an anti-migrant protest in an eastern German city ...

September 09, 2018

RNC chairwoman: '50-50' chance GOP can keep control of House

The Republican National Committee chairwoman is rating her party's chances of retaining control of the House at "50-50.

September 09, 2018

Palestinian killed trying to damage Gaza fence, Israel says

Israel's military says a Palestinian shot as he attempted to damage the Gaza border fence has died of his wounds. It said he ...

September 09, 2018

20 dead as plane crashes into lake in South Sudan

A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 20 people, a local official said. The 19-seater ...

September 09, 2018

US backtracks on Russian spy suspect offering sex for access

Federal prosecutors are backtracking on their allegation that a Russian woman accused of working as a secret agent offered ...

September 09, 2018

Sasse, critic of GOP, says he's 'independent conservative'

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday that neither his Republican Party nor the Democrats stand for "very much more than being ...

September 09, 2018

Suspected US drone strike kills 4 al-Qaida members in Yemen

Yemeni tribal leaders say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed four alleged al-Qaida militants including a field leader ...

September 09, 2018

Palestinians: US cuts will have dire effect on health care

The director of an east Jerusalem hospital said Sunday that a U.S. decision to cut funding to hospitals serving the ...

September 09, 2018

UN rights commissioner blasts Egypt's 75 death sentences

The U.N. human rights commissioner says it will be an "irreversible miscarriage of justice" if the death sentences issued by ...

September 09, 2018

Syrian rescuers say government bombing kills infant

An infant girl was killed on Sunday as Syrian government forces bombed rebel-held villages in Idlib and Hama provinces, ...