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The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote Friday on a measure drafted by top U.S. and Russian diplomats that would identify and hold accountable those who use chemical weapons in Syria’s protracted civil war. However neither the group nor the United Nations...

The Islamic State group has abducted 230 civilians, including at least 60 Christians, in a central Syrian town hours after it captured it, a monitoring group said on Friday.

Safe NYC is also the first part of an effort to stem a rising tide of homelessness on the streets of the nation’s largest city, where the homeless population has risen since de Blasio took office in January 2014.

Earlier this month, both branches of the Wisconsin state legislature passed a bill to use $250 million in public funding to build a new arena for the Bucks in downtown Milwaukee.

Cheri Taylor, co-area director for Special Olympics South Carolina Area 8, presented Meghan and her partner with their medals at the event’s awards ceremony.

The dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 70 years ago this week was a awful, seminal moment in human history.

Meanwhile, a plane belonging to Yemenia, the national carrier, landed in Aden with 150 Yemenis who had fled to Djibouti when the fighting intensified in March, airport officials there said.

Officials said that so far, none of the drones had launched airstrikes, but they may begin soon.

“The [Russian] foreign minister extended an invitation to the leadership of [Hamas] to visit Moscow and the movement accepted the invitation and the date will be determined later”, the official said.

Download or update WhatsApp for iOS from the App Store. WhatsApp engineers have rolled out an update that lets the users define custom notifications per chat and even mute the noisy groups. The users can reduce their data usage when WhatsApp is used for making calls in settings >...

Sources in Yemen’s government confirmed the move, though there has been no official announcement, and Yemen’s exiled information minister said on Tuesday that commercial flights would be diverted from the capital to the southern port of Aden.

In a speech aimed partly at wavering Democratic members of Congress, the US president said that the campaign against the Iran deal reflected the “mindset” that had led to the Iraq war.

A PIECE of debris which experts believe may have belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has arrived in France for testing.

Police in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Thursday arrested at least nine people suspected of having fought alongside insurgents in Syria and Iraq and recruiting others to do the same.

Turkey, a member of the worldwide coalition led by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Washington, had so far declined to take robust action against jihadists but after a deadly bombing in July in a border town blamed on suspected IS jihadists, it launched limited strikes...