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The death toll from Hurricane Matthew rose to at least 69 people, including 65 in struggling Haiti, local officials said, as the storm headed northward on Thursday to the Bahamas and Florida.

A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama has said the Paris climate deal would come into force much earlier than previously anticipated, days after India ratified the agreement on climate change.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited their "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."

Clinton said that while millions of Americans worked hard to pay their fare share, Trump contributed nothing for the country, The Telegraph reported on Monday.

The insurgents launched attacks from different directions but security forces pushed them back, Danish said.

An online White House petition seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism has gained a record half a million signatures, five times the number needed to get a response from the Obama administration.

A teenager killed his father at their home before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a handgun, wounding two students and a teacher, authorities said.

Bangladesh on Wednesday said the decision to pull out of the Islamabad Saarc summit was purely its "own decision" and has no relation with the decision of any other country.

While Donald Trump - tagged as a misogynist, warmonger, and xenophobe - defied all odds to become the republican nominee, it wasn’t easy for Hillary Clinton either. She faced some stiff competition from Bernie Sanders before defeating and getting him on b...

Responding to increasing attacks on airports and aircraft, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved its first-ever resolution to address extremist threats to civil aviation and urge beefed-up security.

President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated the pending opening of the Smithsonian's new African-American museum and said the institution, decades in the making, is a powerful place because it tells "the story of all of us," not just the famous.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for a "national anti-crime agenda" to combat violent crime in US cities as he condemned the unrest in Charlotte in North Carolina, where protests turned violent.

Closure of Peshawar-Rawalpindi motorway and Islamabad-Lahore highway at multiple points – ostensibly for PAF training – has set off alarm bells. But Pak officials say the exercise called “Highmark” was planned before and is not in response to “Indian thre...

Employees of the embassy took refuge in a shelter, it added.

Venezuela accused the United States of spying on a Non-Aligned Movement summit it recently hosted, saying Venezuelan fighter jets had intercepted a US surveillance plane and forced it to turn back.