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Transcripts of private speeches by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. In one of the extracts, Mrs Clinton told bankers that they were best-placed to help reform the US financial sector. She also...

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will not withdraw from the race in phone interviews with US media. Mr Trump has been under pressure after a tape of him making lewd sexual comments and bragging about groping and...

Burundi's government has said the country intends to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The cabinet announcement comes six months after the court's prosecutor said she would investigate ongoing violence in the country. "We are ready to face the...

The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fueled by something often missing from tropical disease research: the potential for big profit. The prospect of a blockbuster vaccine against a mosquito-borne virus has accelerated the pace of development...

An 18-year-old black man who was shot to death by Los Angeles police over the weekend was fleeing from a suspected stolen car and had turned toward officers with a gun in his hand before they opened fire on...

Two Tunisian men who spent 12 years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan said CIA interrogators tortured them using previously unreported techniques that included threatening them with a makeshift electric chair and beating them with batons so brutally that they...

In a sharp deterioration of relations, the U.S. on Monday suspended diplomatic contacts with Russia over Syria, while Moscow halted cooperation on a joint program for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium. The U.S. move followed a threat last week from Secretary...

The Turkish government has agreed to extend its state of emergency as Turkey fights to wipe out "terrorist organizations" following July's attempted coup, deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference following...

Russia has suspended an agreement with the US on the disposal of surplus weapons-grade plutonium, the latest sign of worsening bilateral relations. In a decree, President Vladimir Putin accused the US of creating "a threat to strategic stability, as a...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the "unfinished business of peace" at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel's founding...