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Tropical Storm Khanun has brought heavy rain and strong winds to Japan as it lashed the country's south. (Aug 7)

The Philippine military has condemned a Chinese coast guard ship’s use of a water cannon on a Filipino supply boat

North Dakota’s oil industry has struggled to attract out-of-state workers as national unemployment remains low. Now, industry leaders are turning

Heavy rain around China's capital, Beijing, has flooded houses, torn apart roads and left at least 20 people dead and

An Italian military aircraft landed at an airport near Rome early on Wednesday with 99 passengers evacuated from Niger, the

Residents in Baghdad took a dip in the Tigris River as they tried to cool off in the soaring temperatures

Russian drone attacks destroyed two educational facility buildings in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Powerful Typhoon Khanun was approaching Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa, lashing the region with strong winds and high waves. (Aug

Work was underway on Monday to remove a Soviet-era emblem from Kyiv's Motherland monument. (Aug 1) AP

The death toll from a massive suicide bombing that targeted an election rally for a pro-Taliban cleric rose to 54