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China's foreign ministry says it has lodged a complaint with the US after President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Taiwan's leader in a phone call. China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province. US policy set in 1979 cut all formal relations with Taiwan. However, Mr Trump's transition...

In the past week, Halima Aden's face has been everywhere, from newspapers to magazines to television here and abroad. But Aden, 19, is fitting in time to be a normal teenage girl between interviews and video shoots, arriving to the Times offices having just...

By Michael J. Coren Twitter has been fighting hate speech for years. Now, it faces what may be the world’s most powerful troll: the president of the United States. President-elect Donald Trump used Twitter for the past 18 months as a megaphone for his views and...

The car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University by an immigrant student places a fresh spotlight on the large Somali community in the US, which has seen a number of youth enlist in jihadist causes. Investigations are ongoing into Monday's attack, in which Somali student Abdul...

For anyone who might like to see Michelle Obama run for president as a Democrat, it's time to rein in that early enthusiasm. Or so says her husband, President Barack Obama. "Michelle will never run for office," the president said in an interview with Rolling...

President Barack Obama has expanded the power of the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to track, plan, and potentially kill terrorists across the globe in places beyond the traditional war zones of Iraq, Syria, and Libya, The Washington Post (WaPo) has learned. The move...

A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia. Police say five people survived the crash but the rest of those on board died. The chartered aircraft, flying from Brazil via Bolivia,...

At least six mosques in the US states of California and Georgia have received letters attacking Muslims. Included in the hate mail is a prediction that President-elect Donald Trump will ethnically cleanse Muslims from the US. SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Student at university rammed car into crowd before attacking them with knife in possible terrorist act Colombus: A university student, reportedly of Somali descent, rammed his car Monday into a crowd of people at Ohio State University and attacked them with a butcher knife, injuring...

From Nigeria to Uruguay, women share their thoughts and feelings about the hijab. By:Al Jazeera Staff Women from around the world share their thoughts and feelings about wearing - or not wearing - the hijab. For more, watch the documentary The Veil. 'Hijab makes me feel free' Ifat Gazia...