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The Iraqi prime minister also said he's trying to unite the country amid concerns of a sectarian war breaking out.

The fighters are led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which aims to build a caliphate ruled on medieval precepts.

Lawyers of the inmates, who had challenged the secrecy behind the drugs used in the process, failed to block the executions.

Ireland's first Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley returns to action on home soil this week fired up by German Martin Kaymer's emphatic US Open triumph last Sunday.

Washington wants Maliki to do more to address the widespread sense of political exclusion among minority Sunnis in Iraq.

High-level talks between Chinese and Vietnamese officials probably won't be the beginning of South China Sea negotiations.

Imports of hot-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-quality steel products from Russia rose 162 percent in the three months through April, compared with the previous three-month period, Reuters reported in an exclusive article.

Online sites where World Cup fans can buy jerseys and other merchandise.

Argentinians face yet another debt crisis. What are the options -- and who would get hurt?

Mt. Gox, once one of the leading exchanges for trading the digital currency, shut its website after saying it lost some 850,000 bitcoins - worth more than $500 million at current prices - in a hacking attack.

John Brooks' goal in the USA World Cup win over Ghana is likely to bring in new fans -- and companies.

U.S. soccer fans enjoyed victory and celebrity at a public viewing of the U.S.-Ghana World Cup match in Sao Paulo on Monday.

Igor Akinfeev allowed a goal to South Korea that went through his hands.

Kim Kardashian is apparently coming out with a video game, but its release date and theme as well as other details are unknown.

Hilary Clinton 2016? It's possible.

ISIS, the organization that now controls northern Iraq, was until this winter a branch of al Qaeda. How did it become so powerful?

Hammering away at the White House and the IRS over the 2013 affair, a handful of Republicans accused the Obama administration of obstructing congressional probes and renewed calls for the naming of an independent prosecutor.

"I would never have left," vet Mario Hernandez tells International Business Times.

The expanded marine sanctuary would double the area of ocean globally that's fully protected from fishing and energy extraction.

Now in its 17th year, the Shanghai International Film Festival offers competing visions for the future of Chinese cinema.

The president said he’ll give entrepreneurs access costly technology. That won’t create the 29,000 manufacturing jobs he needs every month.