A weeklong strike at a South African platinum mine turned deadly Thursday when police opened fire on 3,000 protestors. Thirty-four strikers were killed in the shooting and at least 78 others were wounded.
Although the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, officials with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force say the cause of the crash remains unknown. Seven Americans soldiers, three Afhga ...
Russian officials say investigators looking in to militant groups in Tatarstan discovered 57 people living in an underground bunker when they raided a mosque in Kazan last week. The people are believed to be members of an Islamist sect led by 83- ...
Three United States soldiers died Friday in southern Afghanistan when a native in an Afghan National Police uniform opened fire at a police checkpoint. Officials have not identified the victims.
A shooting at a church in central Nigeria Monday night left at least 19 people dead and an unknown number wounded. The Islamic militant group Boko Haram is thought to be behind the attack as they have carried out similar attacks in the past. In J ...
An attack on a NATO supply truck traveling to Afghanistan through Pakistan’s tribal region on Monday left one person dead. According to government officials, three gunmen traveling in a car shot at the truck as it traveled in Jamrud, a town in th ...
The murder trial for the wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai will start Thursday in the city of Hefei, according to an unidentified friend of the family. Gu Kailai was officially charged last week with the “intentional murder” of a British ...
Two powerful tropical storms hit eastern China back-to-back late Thursday and early Friday, forcing over 800,000 people to leave their homes for safer shelter. So far, only three deaths have been reported.
Health officials in Uganda say a prisoner with a suspected case of Ebola escaped from Kagadi hospital overnight Friday, sparking concern the man could spread the highly contagious, sometimes fatal virus. Dr. Jackson Amune, an official at the Mini ...
Typhoon Saola brushed past the northern and central Philippines this week, dumping as much as 1.5 feet of rain on the nation. Officials say nearly 180,000 people have been displaced by severe flooding and at least 23 people have died. The Office ...
A couple accused of adultery in northern Mali were stoned to death Sunday by Islamists that seized control of the area in a military coup in March. Officials say both of the victims were married. The woman had two children.
Abdi Jeylani Marshale, a popular Somali comedian known for impersonating Islamic insurgents, was killed late Tuesday outside Kulmiye radio station in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Police lieutenant Mohamed Gaal said Marshale was shot by at lea ...
A second massive power outage hit India Tuesday, causing widespread transportation issues and leaving hundreds of millions of people in the dark. Power officials say three regional electricity grids failed, which cut power to 20 of the 28 states. ...
As heavy rain continued to soak North Korea on Monday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) predicted more damage to buildings and crops in the coming days. The agency said Monday the majority of the country is “expected to suffer big ...
The wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai has officially been charged with the “intentional murder” of a British man who had business dealings with her family. The official Xinhua news agency reports Gu Kailai was charged in the city of Hefe ...
A wealthy Nigerian man died Tuesday in Ogbadibo, Benue state while being raped by five of his six wives. In their report about the attack, police said Uroko Onoja was “raped to death.”
Pakistani officials say two people were killed Tuesday in Khyber Agency, a district bordering Afghanistan, when gunmen attacked a convoy carrying supplies for NATO troops. The convoy was attacked by at least 12 men on motorcycles as it passed a b ...
U.S. Military officials confirm a Navy Helicopter carrying 5 crew members crashed in Oman Thursday. It is unclear if any of the crew members survived. A spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said the crash was “not due to any hostile ac ...
The Syrian government took a hard hit Wednesday when an explosion at the National Security headquarters in Damascus killed four top aides of President Bashar al-Assad. The opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) immediately claimed responsibility for t ...
A bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded outside Burgas Airport in Bulgaria Wednesday, resulting in at least three deaths. The cause of the explosion remains unclear, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a terror attack and bla ...