North Korea threatens "all-out war and nuclear war" on its enemies, state news reports. South Korea doesn't consider latest threat "new," its unification ministry says.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico's Pacific coast in the southern state of Oaxaca Tuesday morning, near the city of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

A landslide buried 83 workers in a mining area in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Friday morning, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing local authorities.

Two courts in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region sentenced 20 people for alleged terrorist and separatist activities on Tuesday, a spokesperson at the Kashagar Prefecture Intermediate People's Court told CNN.

The White House says North Korean threats to train rocket fire on the U.S. only deepen the country's isolation from the world.

Kim met early Friday morning with his senior generals, state media reported, signed a rocket preparation plan and ordered his forces on standby to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea, Guam and Hawaii.

Last October, shocked by the attempted murder of the 15-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, three million people around the world rushed to sign a petition demanding universal girls' education.

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The United States military made the rare announcement Thursday that it had flown two of its most advanced bombers in an "extended deterrence mission" all the way from Missouri to the Korean Peninsula, where they dropped inert dummy bombs, in a move clearly aimed at warning North Korea against further provocations.

Days after a coup plunged the Central African Republic into chaos, looters roamed the streets of the capital, robbing hospitals and preventing fearful residents from seeking treatment.

As sectarian tensions continue to boil in central Myanmar, authorities have imposed curfews in more towns in an attempt to stop groups of Buddhists from setting fire to mosques and Muslims' homes.

A bomb exploded outside a ship owner's house near the Acropolis in central Athens on Wednesday night, causing damage but no injuries, police said.

Up to 11,200 peacekeeping troops could maintain stability in Mali under a new U.N. proposal.

North Korea says it's cutting off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North.

Seoul's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it hasn't seen any suspicious North Korean military activity and officials are analyzing North Korea's warning about missiles aimed at the U.S.

Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial.

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Cyprus secured a $13 billion package of rescue loans in tense, last-ditch negotiations early Monday, saving the country from a banking system collapse and bankruptcy.

(CNN) -- When Charity Agbameva went into labor last year there were complications. Realizing she needed medical attention, she traveled from Nigeria, where she was living, to a hospital in Keta, in the Volta Region of her native Ghana.

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers said today on "Face the Nation," that "there's mounting evidence that over the last two years the Assad regime has used at least a small quantity" of chemical weapons against rebel forces.

Secretary of State Kerry warned PM Maliki that Iran's flyovers to Syria were "problematic", U.S.-Iraq relationship concerns many.

Israel's military says its forces responded to fire from Syria, shooting toward a target across the border.

Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, encouraging people to be humble and young at heart, as tens of thousands joyfully waved olive branches and palm fronds.

U.S Secretary of State John Kerry met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Saturday, following up on President Barack Obama's talks with each earlier in the week, but a return to negotiations did not appear to be the main agenda item.

President Obama says "the timing was good" during his trip to the Middle East for Turkey and Israel, at odds over a 2010 flotilla incident, to reconcile this week.