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SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, (THEWILL) - The Gambia has banned music, dancing and drumming during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A police statement published last week warned that “all ceremonies, festivities and programs that involve drumming, music and dance...

Italy's coast guard said on Saturday it had picked up at sea 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations between Sicily and North Africa, bringing the total number of people saved over the past three days to more than 3,000. Two...

Eighty state schools in the United Kingdom are allowing boys to wear skirts and girls to wear trousers under new government-funded gender neutral uniform policies. According to The Telegraph, the schools have either dropped references to girls and boys in...

A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the worst mass shooting...

Testifying to Hillary Clinton's grit and experience, President Barack Obama endorsed his former secretary of state's bid to succeed him on Thursday and urged Democrats to line up behind her. It was all part of a carefully orchestrated pressure...

Hillary Clinton carved her name in history Tuesday, becoming the first woman ever chosen to lead a major party into the fall presidential campaign. The former secretary of State, making her second try for the White House, laid claim to...

Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Monday, according to CNN's delegate and superdelegate count, and will become the first woman in the 240-year history of the United States to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party. A...

When U.S. drones obliterated a car carrying Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour last month, it was the kind of targeted killing that unmanned aircraft are best known for. But 15 years after a drone first fired missiles in combat, the...

A car bomb attack targeting a police bus has killed seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul. The explosives were remotely detonated as the vehicle passed through the busy Vezneciler district at the morning rush hour, officials said. No group...

Britain has warned of a high threat of attacks against foreigners in popular shopping malls in South Africa in an alert issued at the weekend, when a similar advisory was published by the United States embassy in Pretoria. Africa's most...