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The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti rose to at least 572 on Friday, as information trickled in from remote areas that were cut off by the storm, officials said.

Typhoon Aere, the 19th to hit China this year, will likely bring heavy rain to the southern province of Guangdong, the local meteorological authority said on Friday.

Hurricane Matthew's howling wind and driving rain pummelled Florida early on Friday, starting what's expected to be a ruinous, days-long battering of the Southeast coast. The strongest winds of 120 mph were just offshore, but Matthew's wrath still menaced...

Bookmakers taking bets for this year's Nobel Peace Prize are giving the lowest odds to the Greek islanders who have opened their hearts and homes to hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

The US has called for "calm and restraint" from India and Pakistan amid increasingly strained relations between the two neighbours and urged both militaries to keep their lines of communication open to help diffuse tensions in the region.

With peace efforts in a deep freeze, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made his first trip to Jerusalem in six years to attend Peres' funeral Friday, shaking hands and making small talk with his longtime adversary, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netany...

Top US lawmakers have come out in support of India's surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the aftermath of the Uri terror attack which claimed the lives of 19 jawans.

The Indian surgical strike inside Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK) against terrorist planning to sneak into India for terrorist activities was "carefully measured", a top American think-tank said.

US wants Pakistan to "combat and delegitimise" UN-designated terrorist entities, including LeT and JeM, National Security Advisor Susan Rice told her Indian counterpart Ajit Doval amidst the war of words between India and Pakistan after the "cross-border"...

This year's presidential campaign has underscored an economic paradox: Financially, black Americans and Hispanics are far worse off than whites, yet polls show minorities are more likely than whites to believe in the American Dream. And they are less anxi...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plans for establishing a human colony on Mars, using a massive rocket and a fleet of spaceships to achieve a self-sustaining population on the Red Planet this century.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has won the first presidential debate, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

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The US government does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, like most nations around the world, due to the disputes that exist between Palestinians and Israelis regarding the city.

Pakistan is to contact Interpol to extradite Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti, who is currently seeking political asylum in India.

The family of the African-American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, released a dramatic video of the moment he was shot by police.