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A fire erupted overnight at a Baghdad hospital and killed 11 newborn babies, an Iraqi spokesman said Wednesday, a deadly blaze that was caused by electrical wiring.The blaze broke out late on Tuesday night inside the maternity department at the

A 40-year-old Nigerian was arrested for defrauding thousands of people worldwide through online scams worth more than $60 million dollars, Interpol and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) said Monday.The man, identified by

Nine months ago, Dareen Tatour posted a poem to Facebook about her frustration over spiking violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Days later, Israeli police banged on her door in the middle of the night and arrested her, accusing her of

Donald Trump’s wife Melania appeared to take liberal inspiration from a 2008 speech by first lady Michelle Obama for her own address to the US Republican convention.The move drew fire from critics, as the campaign of her husband, the 

South African racing driver Gugu Zulu has died while attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.The Nelson Mandela Foundation says Zulu and his wife were two of 46 South Africans who were attempting to summit the highest free-standing

At least 21 people died and more than two dozen were hospitalized after drinking illegally-brewed poisonous alcohol in northern India, police said Sunday.Villagers, mostly poor farmers and workers, fell ill after drinking the alcohol

An official in the president’s office says at least 60 people have been killed in the attempted coup in Turkey. Most of the dead are civilians.The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak

A Port Elizabeth woman living on the outskirts of Nice in France has spoken about her anxiety for the safety of her child and in-laws who had been on the promenade when Thursday night's horror truck attack took place.Mary Michaelides, who's been

French President Francois Hollande says "the terrorist character" of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice cannot be denied.At least 80 people were killed when a 31-year-old French-Tunisian citizen drove a truck at high speed into a large crowd