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The chief of the general staff, Shen Yi-ming, was among eight senior officers -- including three major-generals -- who died when their Black Hawk helicopter smashed into mountains near Taipei.

The perpetrators rammed a car into a traffic police post outside the city of Magas in Ingushetia region around 5:30 pm on Tuesday, after which they attacked policemen with knives. North Caucasus has been a hotbed of Islamic extremism after the breakup of...

Joaqun 'El Chapo' Guzmn Loera was charged with three counts of trafficking cocaine and one count of making false statements. He had been living in Florida and was arrested in Texas.

The US carried out the strike in western Iraq in retaliation for rocket fire that killed an American civilian contractor at a military base in northern Iraq on Friday.

Bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) and new blazes are sparked almost daily by extremely hot and windy conditions

At the height of the crisis, tens of thousands of migrant families crossed into the US and were held in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

The message came at the end of a day in which Washington officials appeared surprised and furious over the ease at which the protestors entered the Green Zone, reaching the US embassy compound for the first time in years.

Addicts struggle in the shadows of a system that offers few treatment options and fails to count them in official statistics on drug abuse.

The pancreatic cancer patient suffered burns to 40 percent of her body when surgeons used an electrical scalpel despite her being treated with an alcohol-based disinfectant.

Greta Thunberg urged people to 'read up' about climate science and what is being done - or not - to tackle the problem.

Mass protests have gripped Iraq since October 1 and protesters, most of them young, are demanding an overhaul of a political system they see as profoundly corrupt and keeping most Iraqis in poverty.

Even as these mass detentions have provoked global outrage, though, the Chinese government is pressing ahead with a parallel effort targeting the region’s children.

The remains were found on Saturday in a broken vessel on the shore of Sado Island, which lies around 900 kilometres from North Korea across the Sea of Japan.

The 41 year old woman seeked asylum in the United States for a medical condition she was facing. She was ultimately diagnosed at the hospital with acute kidney failure.

The footage posted online late Thursday by IS-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being shot and stabbed by jihadists from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) at an undisclosed location.

Photographs from the crash site published by media showed the damaged plane with large cracks in its body next to a house half-demolished by the impact.