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Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his...

A court in Jordan acquitted radical preacher Abu Qatada of charges of plotting to bomb millennium celebrations in Jordan in 2000, semi-state owned newspaper Addustour reported Wednesday. The court ordered his immediate release if no other cases are raised against...

The U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria earlier this week were just the beginning. There will be more to come, President Barack Obama vowed. His words were borne out overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, when airstrikes were carried out against five more targets,...

At least 43 people have died and many are missing in floods and landslides caused by heavy rains that lashed India's remote northeast, officials said on Wednesday, in the second flood tragedy to strike the subcontinent this month. Officials in...

The former deputy head of China's top planning agency confessed in court on Wednesday to extensive bribery involving several companies including a Toyota Motor Corp. joint venture, the court said. Liu Tienan, 59, was sacked as deputy head of the...

On the day the new Ebola clinic in Liberia opened, ambulances waited outside. Inside the ambulances were desperately ill patients who had come for treatment but instead would be left to lie on the ground as others walked by. The...

A day out turned to tragedy Tuesday when a white tiger in a New Delhi zoo mauled a visitor to death, an official said. The attack happened around lunchtime after the visitor "jumped into the tiger's enclosure," zoo director Amitabh...

The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia deserves to be better, though differences between the two oil-producing Middle Eastern states appear to be narrowing, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. Shi'ite Muslim Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are enmeshed...

Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday and the military said they were members of Hamas responsible for the killing of three Israeli youths in June, an attack that led to...

Britain's opposition Labour party said on Tuesday it would introduce a U.S.-style "sin tax" on tobacco firms if it wins a national election next year, sending shares in the leading cigarette groups lower on the day. Labour leader Ed Miliband...