To deal with the continued spread of the Ebola virus, the government of Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called up its security forces to enforce quarantines on the areas where the disease has already been found.
At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds hospitalized after a series of gas explosions rocked the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung.
An internal report by the Central Intelligence Agency admits that some within the agency illegally accessed the computers of Senate members and employees to track their investigation into allegations of torture by the agency after 9/11.
A document accidentally emailed to a reporter from the White House suggests that the Central Intelligence Agency purposely kept some of the highest-ranking members in the State Department in the dark about the use of torture techniques in locations overseas.
The first confirmed American suicide bomber in the Syrian Civil War was able to return to the United States for months before he carried out his final deadly mission on behalf of the al-Qaida aligned Nusra Front.
The government of Bolivia has declared Israel a terrorist state after it attacked a designated United Nations shelter in the Gaza Strip for the second time in as many weeks.
A journalist that fears former head of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander may be selling classified material that harms the national interest has sued the NSA to force them to comply with his requests for Alexander's financial disclosures during his time at the NSA.
Media reports and statements from the United Nations say that Israel has attacked a designated civilian shelter for the second time since its invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The State Department has released its annual report on the state of religious freedom throughout the world.
The city of Detroit's water department has been put under the direct control of the mayor after an uproar over how it has chosen to cut off water supplies to individuals who are behind on their bills.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Mississippi must allow its last abortion clinic to remain open after it was unable to comply with a new law passed with the intention of closing it down.
Chinese state media is reporting that dozens of civilians were killed or injured when groups armed with knives rampaged through a county in China's restive western province of Xinjiang.
The Israeli Knesset, equivalent to a parliament, has banned an Arab member from participating in the body because of something she said.
It has been revealed that proceeds from gold and diamond mining in the Central African Republic are being used to fuel that country's horrific warfare between rival Christian and Muslim groups
A new report offers the most concrete evidence yet that Russia is supplying arms to rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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