At least 80 people have died as two powerful storms continue to pound Mexico, stranding tens of thousands of people and affecting more than a million.
In the Pacific port city of Acapulco, where flood waters have stranded some …
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A double decker bus collided with a passenger train in Ottawa during Wednesday’s morning commute, killing six people, CBC News reports.
City officials say 31 people were hospitalized after the crash, …
An English-speaking spokesman for Egypt’s embattled preeminent Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested Tuesday amid an ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood and its political affiliates.
Gehad Haddad, the son of an adviser to former President Mohamed Morsi, has been to some extent the face of the party to the …
President Barack Obama sent new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani a letter of congratulations following his election in June, a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday.
The world leaders exchanged letters in a sign of easing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. The new centrist president has distanced himself …
A U.N. investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria concluded “with clear and convincing evidence” that the Aug. 21 attack involved chemical weapons. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the attack a “war crime” in an opening statement to the report, released Monday to the U.N. Security Council.
The U.N. report, per …
A South Korean fisherman abducted 41 years ago escaped through an unnamed third country and returned home to his family, officials confirmed.
Jeon Wook Pyo, 67, is the only one of 25 fisherman to be heard from since their boat was seized by the North Koreans in the Yellow Sea in 1972, Bloomberg reports. He was working as a truck …
A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital in northwestern Russia killed at least 37 people Friday, according to officials.
Authorities had previously warned of safety concerns over the timber-built hospital in the village of Luka, which housed about 60 people, BBC reports.
A nurse who had guided patients to safety was among the …
Updated: 3:00 p.m.
Insurgents attacked the U.S. consulate in Western Afghanistan’s largest city with a “complex” operation according to a U.S. embassy spokesperson. The attack highlighted the continued security concerns as …
Illicit haul when up in flames
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is rejecting Syria’s proposed timeline to hand over its chemical weapons, saying the country’s own assurances that it would follow a 30-day lead time “are simply not enough,” the Associated Press reports.
Prosecutors in India are asking for the death penalty for all four men convicted of fatally raping a 23-year-old woman, a crime that ignited a wave of anger over the treatment of Indian women. The judge said he would hand down …
Syria says it accepts the Russian proposal to surrender chemical weapons
The government has declared three days of national morning
