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The annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, officially began Monday.

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Sunday used his State of the Union address to tout his government's U.S.-backed crime-fighting strategies as well as improvements of some economic indicators.

President Trump on Sunday said the agreement his negotiators are hammering out with Iran shouldn't be compared to the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, widely known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, that required Tehran to limit its nuclear ...

On the northern frontier of South Korea, soldiers and VIPs joined a son and a granddaughter Thursday to honor two Americans who fought in the bloody 1950-53 Korean War -- and whose heroism still echoes 72 years later.

China launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft Sunday night with three astronauts heading to its space station, including one set to stay in space for a year.

Russia used a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile Sunday to carry out a massive attack on Kyiv that killed at least two people and injured dozens more, Ukrainian officials said.

Syria held follow-up parliamentary elections on Sunday in the Kurdish-majority northeastern province of Hassakeh and the town of Kobani, areas that were reintegrated under government control after fighting in January.

Iran on Sunday hanged a man who was accused of relaying the coordinates of a defense facility that was later destroyed in an airstrike, marking the regime's first known execution for espionage during its war with Israel and the United States.

Last week's indictment of Raul Castro and five Cuban pilots for the 1996 killing of four Americans flying humanitarian missions near Cuba had a curious footnote: One of the pilots is already in the U.S.