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Some US forces are currently located on the outskirts of Mosul and in “harm’s way,” but would remain behind the front lines with the Iraqis in the lead, according to a Pentagon spokesman during a briefing with reporters Monday.

North Korea has said it is "close to the brink of war" with its southern neighbor - and Britain has been warned to stay out of the fight.

A farmers*organization in northwest Nigeria says 40 people were killed in attacks believed to have been carried out by Fulani herdsmen over the weekend.

The U.S. military has ramped up airstrikes against the Islamic State in Libya--doubling the number of strikes there in less than a month--according to the latest statistics provided by the U.S. military's Africa Command, which leads the operation.

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India's federal health minister says at least 23 people died after a fire broke out in a private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Bhubneswar.

A U.K. Independence Party legislator who was hospitalized after an altercation at the European Parliament has announced he is leaving the party that played a crucial role in the country's decision to leave the European Union.

Construction has begun on the vessel that could have been called "Boaty McBoatface" if that name hadn't been quashed by British officials.

Looking at the so-called "jungle" migrant camp in Calais from the air, it's hard to imagine that it is set to disappear within weeks.

A Mauritanian official says a former al-Qaida militant who gained fame with the publication of a diary about life at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has arrived in his country after nearly 14 years of detention.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a long-awaited offensive Monday to drive the Islamic State group out of the country's second largest city, Mosul, but the operation could take weeks, if not months, and many fear a humanitarian crisis.

Mexican authorities have arrested a suspect in the abduction and murder of two priests in Veracruz state last month.

Authorities in Puerto Rico say a zip line operator has died after falling nearly 700 feet (213 meters) from a platform while helping a customer.

Macedonia's Parliament has been formally dissolved ahead of forthcoming early national elections.

Thousands of experts and leaders from around the world are gathering in South America to dream up the city of the future even as the continent struggles with urban planning issues such as slums that have dogged the continent for decades.

It was the dead of night when an 11-year-old Nigerian orphan boarded an overloaded dinghy to take on the daunting task of crossing the Mediterranean Sea to a better life in Europe.

An explosion at a facility belonging to chemical firm BASF in southwestern Germany killed one person and injured at least six others on Monday, authorities said.

A British judge says people making threats against a woman challenging the government over its European Union exit plans will face "the full vigor of the law." Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller is the lead claimant in a lawsuit arguing that the government can't trigger Britain's exit from the EU without approval from Parliament.

About 300 peaceful protesters marched to the Chinese embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to urge the Chinese government not to build a railway across the Nairobi National Park and surrounding areas.

The Austrian government says it plans to demolish the house where Adolf Hitler was born and erect a new building in its place in efforts to erase any link to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.