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Afghan authorities are searching for an Australian and an American who were kidnapped by gunmen in the capital, Kabul, officials said on Monday. The pair, believed to be affiliated with a Kabul university, was taken by four or five gunmen...

The administrator of Prince's estate has denied reports it is planning to sell Paisley Park, the star's former home and recording studio complex. A court filing on Friday had included the property among a list of assets that could be...

US airline giant Delta says all its departing flights have been suspended due to a nationwide system outage. "Customers should check the status of their flight before heading to the airport while the issue is being addressed," the company tweeted. It...

A bomb blast has killed 53 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan, officials say. Dozens of people were injured in the attack, which happened at the entrance to the emergency department where the body...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 05, (THEWILL) – 23 people are feared dead after rescue workers in India found 18 bodies on Friday after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river earlier in the week. Reports indicate that two buses and a...

The Egyptian military says it has killed the head of the Sinai branch of so-called Islamic State (IS), along with dozens of its fighters. It said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed in a series of air strikes on fighters of...

Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a daily report on events in Iraq. The report followed a statement on...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Friday a recent lawsuit by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) does not involve him, the Malaysian government or sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad directly. Last month, U.S. Attorney General Loretta...

China on Friday accused Japan's new defense minister of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War Two. Tomomi Inada, a 57-year old lawmaker known for her revisionist views of...

Turkish Foreign Minster Mevlut Cavusoglu called Austria the "capital of radical racism" on Friday after Chancellor Christian Kern suggested ending European Union accession talks with Ankara. In an interview with broadcaster TGRT Haber, Cavusoglu said Kern's comments, spurred in part...