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While there has been no violence against the junta since the coup, it is only a matter of time until reprisals begin ...

Oscar Pistorius has arrived at a psychiatric hospital in South Africa to begin the period of mental evaluation he was ordered to undergo by the judge at his murder trial. ...

Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki: places where the war did not stop when Operation Overlord ended ...

Early Monday hostilities by pro-Russian separatists have thrown down the gauntlet to the President-elect, who has promised to quickly end the conflict and create a single, united Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists engaged security forces in a skirmish at an airport in Ukraine's most populous province on Monday ...

Although mainstream parties remain in control, significant gains made by Euroskeptic and anti-immigrant party wins in last week's elections to the European Parliament have raised fears of increasing isolationism within the E.U. ...

Pope Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust and in terrorist attacks, and kissed the hands of Holocaust survivors as he capped his three-day Mideast trip with poignant stops Monday at some of the holiest and most haunting sites for Jews in Israel ...

The White House issued a corrected list of officials, without the name of the CIA officer, but only after the initial list had been distributed to more than 6,000 people ...

The town is believed to have once been home to a thriving Jewish community, who converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition and changed the town's name to prove their faith ...

After pleasing Palestinians a day earlier, the pontiff made a flurry of symbolic moves Monday aimed at healing 2,000 years of tension between the Catholic Church and Jews ...

April was the first time the monthly average of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million, a threshold which the UN says has "symbolic and scientific significance" ...

The Pope arrived in Bethlehem Sunday, after spending the first day of his visit to the Middle East in Jordan ...

In his first visit to the region since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made stops in Amman, Jordan, and Bethlehem in the West Bank ...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — President Barack Obama secretly slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness Sunday for a weekend visit with U.S. troops serving in the closing months of America’s longest war. MoreIsla Vista Rampage: More Victims Identified After Deadly Spree NBC NewsMen Charged With Toppling Ancient Rock Formation Avoid Jail Time… ...

Francis' invitation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres to pray together at the Vatican exploits their one shared desire: To avoid painful specifics ...

Alexander Selvik Wengshoel ate his own hip with potatoes and a glass of wine while his girlfriend was out of the house, and said it tasted "goaty" ...

Every space in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was filled for the papal visit on Sunday morning, but with the population of Palestinian Catholics dwindling, many Filipino and Indian guest workers made up the numbers ...

PARIS (AP) — Two Jewish brothers dressed in “traditional” clothes were attacked near a synagogue in the Paris area, French officials and Jewish leaders said Sunday. The assault came hours after a deadly shooting spree Saturday at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. Interior Minister Bernard Caseneuve ordered police around France to increase security at Jewish… ...

The president touched down in Afghanistan Sunday on his first visit to the country in two years, to meet with troops, civilians and military leaders to discuss the country's future ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Exit polls suggested candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko won Ukraine’s presidential election in the first round Sunday, a ballot that took place amid weeks of fighting in eastern regions where pro-Russia separatists have seized government buildings and battled government troops. MoreUkraine’s ‘Kamikaze’ Cabinet Makes Way For Presidential VotePictures of the Week:...

BRUSSELS — Exit polls showed the far right and Euroskeptics making sweeping gains in European Parliament elections Sunday, signaling a major political shift toward parties that want to slash the European Union’s powers or abolish it altogether. Polls in recent days had predicted Euroskeptics could snag as many as a third of the seats in… ...