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The fighting between two generals leading competing military factions has now been going on for a year, leading to massacres, hunger and a massive wave of people fleeing their homes.

Investors are taking a wait-and-see approach after the much-anticipated aerial assault had little effect on oil supplies.

A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system.

There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.

Books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Hwang Sok-yong are among six nominees for the prestigious award for translated fiction.

A tent camp is a temporary home for some of the thousands of Israelis who are mounting a four-day protest calling for early elections to oust the Israeli prime minister.

A Paris school principal received online death threats after he was involved in an “altercation” with a Muslim student over her head scarf, sparking outrage in a country still scarred by the killing of two teachers.

Baseball fans in South Korea have embraced the superstar from Japan, despite the longtime rivalry and history between the two countries.

The U.S. ambassador to Budapest raised the temperature in a long-running standoff, citing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pro-Russia, anti-U.S. stance and opposition to supporting Ukraine.

Her foundation rescued thousands of girls and young women from bonded slavery and secured meals and schooling for impoverished children.