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Six prisoners reported to have escaped from a Bahraini prison Friday were not among the detainees, who were trying to escape on a boat.

Mahmuda Aktar, 33, was killed in what police suspected was the latest in a series of attacks by Islamists in the majority-Muslim nation.

The soldiers died when their military vehicle flipped over in a flood-swollen creek Thursday at Fort Hood Army post in central Texas.

The Obama administration has sought to improve ties with Mongolia, given its location between two increasingly assertive U.S. rivals — China and Russia.

In Mongolia ahead of a China visit, the top U.S. diplomat said a Chinese air defense zone in the disputed region would be a “provocative and destabilizing act.”

Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla arrived in Havana on Thursday, becoming the first sitting leader of Puerto Rico to visit Cuba.

As a June 23 vote nears, diplomatic sources say China has given coded support for the “remain” camp by calling for a strong, united Europe.

As Venezuela falls deeper into an economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro is facing a recall referendum.

But Sunni politicians have voiced concern that the presence of Shiite militias alongside the army could spark sectarian violence.

Some treatments seem to work better when targeting a tumor's abnormalities rather than the organ where the cancer was initially detected.

Castro, who succeeded his older brother Fidel nearly a decade ago, said he'll step down in February 2018.

Bosso is part of the Diffa region, which is home to many refugees and internally displaced people who have sought to avoid Boko Haram violence.

Terrorist groups are planning to carry out strikes where the nation’s citizens congregate in shopping areas, the U.S. embassy said Saturday.

Pope Francis has pledged zero tolerance for anyone in the Roman Catholic Church who abuses children.

Carsten Spohr says Europe’s airline industry needs to consolidate to improve profits, and Lufthansa wants to use its Eurowings platform to do so.

The city of Raqqa, ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria, is the ultimate target of those seeking to destroy the terrorist group’s self-declared caliphate.

The British firm, owned by India’s Tata Motors, has sued China’s Jiangling Motor for allegedly copying its Range Rover Evoque.

On the 27th anniversary of the crackdown on student-led protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Taiwan said it could serve as an example to China.

Tokyo is worried that Chinese control of the waterway in the South China Sea would threaten Japan’s national security.

Mauricio Macri, 57, experienced arrhythmia in mid-afternoon Friday, but concluded his work schedule in the evening, officials said.

A cut from the current 9,800 troops would hurt Afghan government forces and bolster the Taliban, retired U.S. generals and senior diplomats say.

According to a new indictment, in 2012 Shkreli and an associate divided 2 million unrestricted Retrophin shares to elude federal securities law.

The Democrat's polling surge comes as the Republican faces criticism over his Trump University, the target of a trio of lawsuits.

Letters have been sent to San Francisco-based Prosper, as well as to Avant, Funding Circle, Upstart and others, a source told Reuters.

Tony Fadell will remain an adviser to Alphabet and Google co-founder Larry Page.

The Army says soldiers were in a truck that overturned in a swollen creek during a training exercise Thursday.

Concerns from current and former U.S. military and civilian officials come amid an Iraqi offensive to retake Fallujah from ISIS.

The total number of strikes carried out by the U.S. military in Yemen this year against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is now at nine.

The proposal, to be addressed at the company's annual general meeting, is designed to make sure a future Facebook chief's management powers aren't limited.