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A wildfire raging in Quito has forced residents to flee their homes and Ecuador’s president to make an emergency return...

Israel’s military chief told troops on Wednesday that its airstrikes in Lebanon were aiming to destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure and to...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death...

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and...

Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople – from a...

When award-winning actress Meryl Streep spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly about cats, squirrels and birds,...

Hong Kong will roll out the red carpet Thursday to receive two giant pandas gifted by the Chinese government to...

The killing of a Japanese schoolboy in China has sparked an outpouring of anger and soul searching over the rise...

Since French President Emmanuel Macron’s explosive gamble to dissolve parliament before the summer, rumors have swirled over how the newly divided National Assembly would...

Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now one...