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An aide to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan who made front page news around the world after being filmed kicking a protester in the wake of Turkey's worst ever mining accident has been sacked, a government official said on...

Drive-by shootings in Southern California on Friday night left seven people dead, CNN affiliate KEYT reported Saturday, citing Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown. Brown said the suspected gunman was among seven people killed in the incident, which occurred in...

Smoke and flames rose from Somalia's parliament building in Mogadishu after militants launched an attack Saturday. People could be seen lying on the ground, as ambulances pulled up. People took cover as security forces moved in, exchanging gunfire with the...

The United Nations Security Council Committee on Al-Qaeda sanctions has blacklisted the Boko Haram sect after the insurgents kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls. Consequently, the sect is now subject to an international asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. U.S Ambassador to...

The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria's Boko Haram. It added the terrorist group to the United Nation's 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes. "Today, the Security...

Five suicide bombers carried out the attack which killed 31 people in the capital of China's troubled Xinjiang region, state media reported a day after the deadliest terrorist attack to date in the region. The incident, which occurred in Urumqi...

When a barrage of drone-fired missiles hit al Qaeda cells in Yemen in mid-April and killed dozens of militants, the results were strikingly different from a mistaken U.S. attack on a Yemeni wedding convoy just four months earlier. But even...

Thai army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha summoned ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to a meeting on Friday, a day after he seized power in a bloodless coup and said he wanted to restore order following months of turmoil. General Prayuth launched...

Thailand’s army chief took control of the country and suspended the constitution after a six-month crisis that has sapped economic growth and caused political paralysis, staging the military’s 12th coup since 1932. Two days after declaring martial law and saying...

A blast in the capital of China's western region of Xinjiang killed 31 people, with around 90 others injured, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Thursday. The blast took place when two vehicles rammed into a crowd at a...