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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 06:30
A series of recent terror attacks across Africa have raised fears of a new wave of extremist violence. From Somalia in the east to the Western Sahel, Africa’s hotspots started getting hotter over the past week with a series of terror attacks that have raised fears of a new wave of extremist violence.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 06:26
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq will likely increase, citing the recent success in taking the city of Ramadi back from the Islamic State and a need to train more Iraqi military and police units as the campaign against the militants expands.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 05:44
The Associated Press made a rare, three-day visit to a secret FARC camp in Antioquia state in early January to see how the region's oldest leftist insurgency is preparing for a peace that looks more tantalizingly close than ever.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 05:41
Honduras’s president, Juan Orlando Hernández, has announced the launch of a new international anti-corruption body to tackle criminal networks within the country’s political and judicial systems, in an attempt to appease anger over impunity and graft.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 05:38
The affair highlights the capabilities and limits of the Mexican Armed Forces, and how the close, but troubled, Mexico-U.S. relationship has evolved in the decade since December 2006, when former president Felipe Calderon launched the war against the cartels by deploying the Mexican Army into the state of Michoacán.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 05:36
President Dilma Rousseff's opponents within her main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), are losing hope that they can impeach the leftist leader and replace her with their man, Vice President Michel Temer.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 07:04
Air raids by the U.S.-baked Saudi military coalition killed at least 15 policemen and wounded more than 20 people when they hit police buildings in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, overnight, medical and police sources said on Monday.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:55
The killing of two Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hackers is raising new questions about whether the Pentagon is targeting the group's tech-savvy members.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:53
Two rival countries in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan and Armenia, have welcomed the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:51
U.S. ambassador to Georgia, Ian Kelly, said that the Georgian government has been “very open with us” about energy policy and its talks with Russia’s Gazprom.