After a large vessel stroke, a new study finds that a shorter time to treatment after a stroke is critical to having the best recovery. Stroke is the second leading…
continue readingAuthorities in an eastern province of Afghanistan say a U.S. drone strike against a group of suspected Islamic State militants has killed at least 18 people, including civilians. Local police…
continue readingInternational investigators say a Malaysian airliner that crashed over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was shot down by a missile that was transported into the country from Russia. The findings…
continue readingA major regional summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November might be canceled after Bangladesh and India have said they will not attend. …
continue readingEast Timor has accused Australia of being a bully as the International Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands prepares to hear a decade-long dispute over the sharing of oil and…
continue readingAirstrikes targeted the two largest hospitals in the eastern part of Aleppo, Syria early Wednesday. Damage from the strikes temporarily knocked the hospitals out of service, further limiting medical care…
continue readingAmid the ongoing war in Syria and other battlegrounds around the world, it has almost escaped notice that Putin is also challenging the West in the Balkans. Yet Russian soft…
continue readingTurkey has placed more than 32,000 people under arrest in connection with suspected links to self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the July 15 failed coup attempt. …
continue readingThere are conflicting reports of possible civilian casualties from a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. …
continue readingA gas explosion at a Chinese coal mine has left at least 18 people dead and two more missing after what Chinese officials are calling “illegal” mining activities. The gas…
continue readingThe French government is presenting its 2017 budget, including 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in tax cuts that are expected to benefit 5 million low and middle-income households. The budget…
continue readingAn international criminal investigation into the MH17 tragedy in eastern Ukraine in 2014 has determined the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet was shot down by a Buk antiaircraft missile fired from…
continue readingAt Sandia National Laboratories inside Kirtland Air Force Base, nuclear weapons equipment is spun around, smashed and even blown up–all to help the U.S. military modernize its nuclear weapons stockpile.…
continue readingSchoolgirls in Malawi are learning what to do if someone tries to attack them. A Kenyan NGO started the training in response to a recent study that showed one in…
continue readingWith election day six weeks away, U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Tuesday and gave critical reviews of each other’s performance in their…
continue readingFormer Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres has died at the age of 93 after suffering a major stroke. …
continue readingIsraeli elder statesman Shimon Peres spent 70 years working for peace and a strong Israel. His life of public service spanned the life of the Israeli nation itself. He died…
continue readingScientists and environmentalists are warning that Russia’s Siberian forests, hit with a severe drought this summer, are increasingly consumed by wildfires that are consistently underestimated by the government. …
continue readingThe U.S. Senate on Tuesday failed to pass a short term spending bill to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend. Democrats blocked the bill that would extend federal…
continue readingOil prices plunged anew as signs of discord reemerged between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an oil production freeze being pushed by the Saudis and Russia. …
continue readingIn the autumn of 1941, one the gravest atrocities of the 20th century unfolded in a ragged ravine on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The massacre of 33,771 Jews on…
continue readingRussian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has signed a petition calling for a legal ban on abortion, the church said. …
continue readingSwitzerland’s lower house of parliament narrowly backed a ban on face veils Tuesday, echoing moves by neighboring France and other European nations to tighten controls in the wake of Islamist…
continue readingThe U.N. envoy for Libya said Tuesday that armed groups were carrying out “grave human rights abuses with impunity,” and he warned the international community against breaking the arms embargo.…
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