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By James Loxton and Javier Corrales April 20 at 6:00 AM Anti-government protesters face tear gas in Venezuela   On April 19, opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro held the largest protest so far that month in Caracas. Footage showed them crossing a river to avoid tear...

Incoming US president says weapons should be reduced, weeks after joining Putin in call for nuclear expansion. Donald Trump, the US president-elect, has told a British newspaper that he will offer to end sanctions against Russia in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with...

BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN The global security picture is growing ever more complicated for the new U.S. president. The United States will send several dozen troops to help train Somali forces in their fight against the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabab, Pentagon officials said Friday, the...

Washington (CNN)A top official at the State Department repeatedly sought to have the FBI back down on classifying the contents of an email from Hillary Clinton's private email server, documents released Monday revealed. According to notes from interviews conducted during an FBI investigation into Clinton's...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After eight years as a wartime president, Barack Obama is handing his successor an expansive interpretation of the commander in chief's authority to wage war around the globe. And that reading has continued to grow even as Obama prepares to pass...

By:STARTRIBUNE A former Somali prime minister and Minnesota resident who devoted much of his life to rebuilding the east African country's democratic institutions has died. Ali Khalif Galaydh earned a reputation as an elder statesman in Somalia after a long career in politics that continued until...

Washington Dc-Billionaire, Femi Adenugame, has released a statement offering to help African-Americans leave the United States if Donald Trump is elected president. According to reports, he is offering $1 Million, a home and car to every Black family who wants to come to South...

By: MICHAEL ATSBEHA BEKARREDAR, Ethiopia (AP) - The 25-year-old Kedija had her external genitalia removed and her vagina sewn up when she was just seven days old. She has faced a lifetime of pain. "I was unable to hold my urine for long," she told The...

By:AL JAZEERA The United States House of Representatives has voted to remove Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the result of infighting within his own party and persistent challenges from its rightward flank. McCarthy was expelled...

By JOSH GERSTEIN President Donald Trump's three-week-old administration took a thrashing from a federal appeals court Thursday as a panel of three judges unanimously rejected his request to resume enforcement of his controversial travel ban executive order. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling put into...