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NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia moved Saturday to replace the leadership of the country's defiant northern Tigray region, where deadly clashes between regional and federal government forces are fueling fear...

Days before he left the White House in 2017, President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, declaring his septuagenarian, white-haired lieutenant "the best vice-pre...

The most turbulent and norm-breaking presidential election of a lifetime has led to an extraordinary spectacle in the United States over the past three days: armed protesters gathering nightly outside...

LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam's prophet, ...

BEIRUT - Lebanon's leader on Saturday asked the United States to offer evidence to back up new sanctions against the former Lebanese foreign minister, who is an important political ally of the Iran-ba...

CAIRO - Egyptians began voting Saturday in the second and final stage of the country's parliamentary elections, after a relatively low turnout in the first round that embarrassed the government of Pre...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country's Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restri...

ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - Authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested opposition leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan as part of a growing crackdown on those who challenged the president's re-election to a third ...

MULTAN, Pakistan - Pakistan's counterterrorism police said they killed two militants belong to an al-Qaeda subcontinent chapter in an overnight operation in eastern Punjab province. In a statement Sat...

KABUL - A bomb attached to the vehicle of a former presenter on Afghanistan's TOLO TV exploded early Saturday, killing the journalist and two other civilians, Kabul police said. The death of Yama Siaw...