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Venezuela remained a powder keg on Sunday as authorities said they had quelled an anti-government paramilitary attack at a military base that led to the deaths of two people, and the country's attorney general defied her ouster by the newly elected National Constituent Assembly.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called newly approved sanctions on North Korea "a gut punch" to that country Saturday and warned of possible military action should the regime continue its aggressions.
The United Nations Security Council on Saturday passed a resolution imposing new sanctions on North Korea for its continued intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) testing and violations of UN resolutions.
Fox News said Saturday that host Eric Bolling will be suspended from air "pending the results of an investigation" into whether he sent lewd photos to co-workers, a network spokesperson confirmed to CNNMoney.
US military aircraft and boats are scouring waters off Australia's east coast Saturday for US service members involved in what the Marines Corps is calling a "mishap" with an MV-22 aircraft.
A 20-year-old British model was kidnapped in Milan, Italy, to be auctioned off on a pornographic website on the dark web, the Italian State Police said Saturday.
Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly held its first session Saturday and issued its first order of business: the immediate removal of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz.
Russia's former ambassador to the United States said Saturday that his conversations with Michael Flynn -- who was forced to resign as US national security adviser amid a controversy over those talks -- were only about "simple things" with "no secrets."
Violent attacks against minorities from far-right wing extremists account for a significant share of deadly terrorism, but not enough is being done to prevent them, writes Simran Jeet Singh
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was sworn in for a second term Saturday in front of more than 100 foreign dignitaries as he accused the United States of undermining the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the major world powers.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes his pressure campaign against North Korea to Asian leaders on Sunday as the US intensifies its efforts to isolate Pyongyang.
Police describe twin terror plots, one involving the bombing of a passenger plane and the other a potential poison gas attack, as the "most sophisticated" ever attempted on Australian soil.
By the end of the century, two out of three people living in Europe will be affected by heat waves, coastal floods and other weather-related disasters, largely due to global warming and climate change, according to a study published Friday in the journal Lancet Planetary Health.
Venezuela's controversial and newly elected legislative assembly had a fiery message as the body took office Friday: Supporters of leftist President Nicolás Maduro are in control, with a vengeance.
Australian police explain what they say was "one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil." CNN's Anna Coren reports.