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The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition for similarly turning Istanbuls landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim hous...

Thousands of motorcyclists staged simultaneous rides through cities and towns in Cyprus on Friday to protest a police decree that they claim infringes on their constitutional right to unfettered mobility.

As Russias most determined and durable opposition figure, Alexei Navalny has employed an astute understanding of social media and an accountants ability to wade through financial data, a knack for sardonic humor and fierce resolve in the face of repeated...

A June survey by the EdWeek Research Center, which is affiliated with the prominent trade publication Education Week, found that 81 per cent of US teachers support the Black Lives Matter movement.

With firefighting forces badly depleted from the heaviest spate of incendiary lightning strikes to rake California in over a decade, some ground crews labored through grueling 72-hour shifts against the deadly onslaught, despite efforts to muster reinforc...

Palestinian militants fired 12 rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip overnight, nine of which were intercepted, and Israel responded with three airstrikes on targets linked to the territory's militant Hamas rulers, the Israeli military said early Friday.

They came together early last year with a cherished project — building Trump’s long-promised, long-stalled border wall — and influential supporters to promote it, including Stephen Bannon, an architect of Trump’s 2016 victory and a former White House stra...

A judge on Thursday set a November trial date for a civil lawsuit in the 2017 fatal shooting by U.S. Park Police of a northern Virginia motorist, but government lawyers say the trial should be delayed because the officers involved in the shooting aren't t...

African and Western leaders have condemned the junta that forced Malis president from power, warning the coup was a deep setback that could threaten the battle against Islamic extremism across the Sahel region, where thousands have been killed by jihadist...

A woman died and two people sustained injuries Thursday when the vehicle they were in collided with two lightrail trains at an intersection in Baltimore.

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to block critics from his personal Twitter account.

A day before Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny collapsed in what his allies say was a case of poisoning on Thursday, he met a group of young supporters in private and took a familiar question: why aren't you dead?

New York will allow voters to request absentee ballots for the general election because of coronavirus under a new state law signed Thursday.

Clashes between Ethiopian security forces and protesters demanding the release of an opposition politician and a media magnate have killed at least nine people in the Oromiya region surrounding the capital, health officials said on Thursday.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has filed paperwork to run for his old job next year but says he's still hasn't made a decision yet.

New guidance from the President Donald Trump's administration that declares teachers to be critical infrastructure workers could give the green light to exempting teachers from quarantine requirements after being exposed to COVID19 and instead send them b...