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The tradition extends back to George Washington, who issued warnings against unchecked power and partisan entrenchment in a written address to the nation in 1796.

Amid rising terror threats, China has tightened security at its borders with PoK and Afghanistan to prevent terrorists from entering or leaving its volatile Xinjiang province which has recently witnessed violent attacks allegedly by the separatist East Tu...

Former German President Roman Herzog, who pioneered remembrance of the Nazi Holocaust, has died at the age of 82, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

US Senator Ted Cruz met on Sunday with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen, despite objections from Chinese diplomats.

The United States will send some 300 Marines to Afghanistan's southern Helmand province to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces.

Dutch police have taken from a journalist items, including possible human remains, which he found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors said on Sunday.

Referring to the Indian evidence furnished against Azhar in Pathankot terror attack, Mao Siwe cited the charge sheet that the evidence included Facebook and telephone records as well as DNA samples through food wrapping paper and walkie-talkie.

The former Princess of Wales had sent the letters to late Cyril Dickman, who served as a head steward at Buckingham Palace for more than 50 years.

US Vice President Joe Biden has suggested President-elect Donald Trump to "grow up" and behave like an "adult".

As the Obamas ready to leave the White House, America's first family has given away Sasha and Malia's swing and playset that sat outside the window of the Oval Office.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a narrow escape during a late night walk in her palace gardens when one of her guardsmen "nearly shot" her thinking it was an intruder, a media report claimed on Thursday.

Photos of the trains with brown stains went viral and even flashed in the official media websites as?thick smog shrouded Beijing and 71 cities for the past five days

Online images show the train at a slight angle in its track bed in the busy Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.

George W Bush had released or transferred around 500 inmates before leaving office, Obama has released or transferred around 179.

The incident was the "biggest massacre in the prison system" in Amazonas and produced the highest loss of life ever at the hands of inmates in a penitentiary fight in Brazil, the Public Safety Secretariat said.

When hunger drew tens of thousands of Venezuelans to the streets last summer in protest, President Nicolas Maduro turned to the military to manage the country's diminished food supply, putting generals in charge of everything from butter to rice.