North Korea will not stand by and watch the United States launch a preemptive strike, a Pyongyang foreign ministry official said Friday. In an interview with...
The U.S. Air Force dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb for the first time in combat on Thursday, targeting an underground Islamic State complex in a desolate...
An approaching cyclone prompted New Zealand to declare regional states of emergency, evacuate coastal areas and close airports and schools on Thursday. Cyclone Cook was heading...
The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled Russia is guilty of failing to protect more than 330 people who died in the 2004 Beslan school...
North Korea may be preparing for its next nuclear test at its site in Punggye-ri. Commercial satellite images taken Wednesday indicate ongoing activity around the North...
China has ordered its military to be on nationwide alert, in addition to areas near the North Korea border, as tensions escalate on the peninsula. The...
North Korean agents may have been responsible for the death of a Myanmar national after the 1983 Rangoon bombing and assassination attempt against South Korean President...
Mexico City’s Civil Protection Secretariat Fausto Lugo said at least seven people died and 10 were injured after a parking garage under construction collapsed. Lugo said...
One civilian died in an explosion Tuesday that authorities described as accidental in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey. Five people also were...
Use of the death penalty declined by 37 percent around the world in 2016 but China remains secretive about its executions, Amnesty International said in a...
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the U.S. missile attack on President Bashar al-Assad’s military air field destroyed about 20 percent of Syria’s operational aircraft....