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A new TV satire program has become a hit in the Arab world by mocking some of the region's most serious issues, from the intractable Sunni-Shiite divide and religious extremism to the brutality of militants like the...

Welcoming China's leader to two summits in the Russian city of Ufa, President Vladimir Putin says Russia and China can overcome their countries' difficulties by working together.

Russia says it does not expect to feel economic instability due to the sharp fall in Chinese stock markets.

A former Serb paramilitary commander during the 1990s Balkan wars was extradited Wednesday from Australia to Croatia to face war crimes charges, authorities said.

The latest on the Greek financial crisis (all times Athens local):

An Ohio woman has been arrested after calling 911 to complain about an order of Chinese food.

He's flown with cranes, petted a polar bear and tranquilized a tiger. Now Vladimir Putin is ready to face the Downward Dog.

Turkmenistan's oil and gas ministry has accused Russian state gas company Gazprom of failing to pay for deliveries in a sign of friction between the two major gas producers.

Two people on board a Cessna 150 are presumed dead after the small, private plane and an F-16 Fighting Falcon collided in the sky above a Berkeley County plantation Tuesday, authorities said.

Britain's Treasury chief pledged Wednesday to crack down on tax avoidance and evasion as he delivered the first budget put forward by an all-Conservative government in nearly two decades.

Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday that it hosted a round of peace talks between Afghan government officials and the Taliban the previous day, and that another round is planned for after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The family of an American anti-poaching pilot who died in a plane crash in Cameroon last year plans to hold a New York City memorial even though his remains have yet to be removed from the wreckage in Africa.

All United Continental flights in the U.S. were grounded temporarily Wednesday due to computer problems.

A U.N. aid agency that helps Palestinians in Gaza says that after numerous delays, it's ready to begin helping a small number of people rebuild their homes, destroyed in last summer's war in the coastal strip.

Wrapping up the Ecuador leg of his South American pilgrimage, Pope Francis prepared Wednesday to head to Bolivia, where church-state tensions over everything from the environment to the role of the church in society are...

Greece made a request for aid from Europe's bailout fund Wednesday as it rushed to deliver details of its proposed economic reforms in time to secure the country's future in the euro and avoid a descent into...

A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced 24 suspected members of the Islamic State terror group to death for their role in the killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers during the extremists' blitz across the country last year.

A South Sudan rebel leader Wednesday called on President Salva Kiir to resign along with all ministers and the parliament or risk sparking a revolution.

Board members for the Charleston County School District approved a $226,000 contract for their new superintendent during a meeting early Wednesday morning.

Italian authorities have seized 1.6 billion euros ($1.76 billion) in wealth from Sicilian construction company officials with alleged ties to Mafia crime families in Corleone, a longtime Cosa Nostra stronghold.

A general election seen as a crucial next step for Myanmar's transition to democracy has been scheduled for Nov. 8.

The U.S. and Emirati governments launched a new Mideast digital communications center Wednesday focused on using social media to counter the Islamic State group's propaganda efforts online.

China announced a flurry of new moves Wednesday to halt a stock market slide. The result? Another big dive in share prices.

They are the Islamic State group's elite shock troops. Fanatical and disciplined, they infiltrate cities of Iraq and Syria, unleash mayhem and fight to the death, wearing explosives belts to blow themselves up among...

Bearded and wearing bright blue bandanas, the Islamic State group's "special forces" unit gathered around their commander just before they attacked the central Syrian town of al-Sukhna. "Victory or martyrdom," they...