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Tension is once again growing over Crimea, with Ukraine ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness."

Elephants are a big issue for farmers in parts of Africa -- but whether they want to or not, the two are going to have to learn to live together.

Two bomb blasts in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin killed at least one person late Thursday, according to Thai Police Col. Sutthichai Srisopacharoenrat.

When rebels broke a month-long government siege on eastern Aleppo, the residents of this battered enclave did something extraordinary: they gathered, en masse, to celebrate.

Shaima Hussein should have left Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital on Wednesday cradling her newborn son, her firstborn, conceived after years of struggle.

Sitting in front of his high-end computer, staring intently at the screen, chunky headphones on and mouse busily clicking away, Omar Omsen looks like a regular office worker.

"We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers," said Aleppo's last remaining doctors in an open letter to US President Barack Obama. "We need action."

Police shot and killed a 24-year-old man they say was in the final stages of a terror attack targeting a Canadian urban center during rush hour, authorities said Thursday.

Coalition forces, including American military operatives, killed a senior ISIS leader when conducting an operation on the Iraqi-Syrian border Wednesday, officials said.

Ukraine is ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness" Thursday, amid growing tensions with Russia over Crimea.

Imagine a presidential election campaign in which a bombastic candidate campaigns by insulting people, and by making promises and threats that sound so outlandish that people think, surely, he must be exaggerating.

Britain's Metropolitan Police has revealed it is investigating claims that a female tennis player was deliberately poisoned during this year's Wimbledon.

A 4th century mosaic recently discovered in Cyprus is stunning in its beauty and very rare.

America and Canada are the world's largest trade partners -- even larger than U.S. and China.

Thirty-six years separate the youngest and oldest US Olympians competing at the games in Rio. Table tennis player Kanak Jha is 16, and equestrian Phillip Dutton is 52. Dutton, who has competed in six Olympics, won his first medal this week in individual eventing.

A planned burkini-only day for Muslim women at a water park in France has been canceled by city officials after threats were sent to the event's organizers.

Russia has just marked 18 months of a deep and painful recession.

At least 21 people were killed and five others were injured in a pipeline explosion in central China on Thursday, officials said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to give the United States an ultimatum, demanding the extradition of a cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.