Two Pakistani intelligence officials speaking anonymously say a suspected drone strike targeting a militant compound left 7 people dead. The strike, apparently carried out by the United States, occurred Tuesday in Miran Shah, North Waziristan. Tw ...

Eastern Turkey was hit by another powerful earthquake early Tuesday morning as authorities and residents struggle to recover from two previous tremors that have left 644 people dead.

Mexican soldiers searching for drugs inside a tractor-trailer found 140 Central American migrants instead. The Defense Ministry, also known as SEDENA, said the truck was stopped at a highway checkpoint in the southern border state of Chiapas. Sol ...

Federal authorities in Australia announced Monday they seized $79 million worth of cocaine from a luxury yacht that has been linked to a global crime syndicate. Four Spaniards were arrested in the raid.

An explosion at a fast food restaurant in northwest China early Monday left at least 7 people dead and 31 others injured. The explosion, which was described by state media as “accidental,” occurred in Xi’an, Shaanxi province at a commercial build ...

Ten children were killed Sunday when a hand grenade exploded at an orphanage in Myanmar’s Kachin State. Witnesses reported seeing two people on a motorcycle throw a package into the orphanage in Myitkyinar. The package is believed to have contain ...

The death toll from Turkey’s second major earthquake rose over the weekend as searchers continued to dig through the rubble of two hotels. Government officials said the death toll went from 33 to 40 Saturday afternoon. Two Turkish journalist and ...

The Mexican government announced Friday the deaths of three government officials, including interior minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora. Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash along with deputy minister Felipe Zamora and the press office chief Jo ...

The Sudanese government has been blamed for Thursday’s bombing near a refugee camp in South Sudan. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said at least two bombs were dropped from planes apparently operated by Sudan’s Armed Forces. The explosions ...

One of Brazil’s most notorious drug traffickers has been captured. Authorities say Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, also known as Nem, was taken into custody Wednesday while trying to flee Rocinha, a slum in the heart of Rio De Janerio, ahead of s ...

Hawaiian authorities have confirmed five people died Thursday when a tour helicopter operated by Blue Hawaiian charters crashed on Molokai Island. The EC-130 chopper went down in Kilohana shortly after departing from Kahului for a 45 minute tour ...

Twenty miners died Thursday in southwest China in an underground explosion. State media reports a gas leak caused the explosion at the Sizhuang Coal Mine in Qujing city, Yunnan province. Twenty-three miners remain trapped underground.

Eastern Turkey was hit by a major earthquake Wednesday night, less than three weeks after a 7.2 earthquake killed more than 500 people in the same region. Wednesday’s 5.7 magnitude tremor struck about 9 miles south of the town of Van. It was 3 mi ...

After a 2 year investigation into numerous incidents of grave robbing, authorities in central Russia have arrested a 45-year-old historian. The man, who has been identified by media outlets as Anatoly Moskvin, is charged with desecrating bodies a ...

Nearly 100 Taliban insurgents were killed Tuesday night in Afghanistan after they launched an attack on an International Security Assistance Force base in the Barmal district of Paktika province.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Japan Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey announced. The 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the East China Sea at a depth of 138 miles. The epicenter was located about 136 miles northwest of Nah ...

A roadside bomb apparently planted by Taliban militants left 11 people dead Monday in northwest Afghanistan. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said the bomb was triggered by three police vehicles carrying people from the same family ...

An attack on a group of U.N. peacekeepers patrolling in the Darfur region of Sudan left one person dead and two others wounded. The UN-African Union mission in Darfur, also known as UNAMID, said the attack occurred Sunday near Nyala.

A top leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel was arrested over the weekend in northern Mexico. The Mexican defense ministry announced Monday that 34-year-oled Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, also known as The Wheel, was taken into custody in Tijua ...

A Pakistani politician with the Awami National Party died Monday in a suicide attack outside a prayer ground in the Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.