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Fifty years ago this week Communist forces seized the city of Saigon bringing an end to the Vietnam

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a funeral ceremony over the weekend and next week the College of Ca

During Syria's long civil war, the White Helmets were known for running into harms way, rescuing civ

The sometimes cold and often frozen relationship between Russia and the U.S. has gotten a lot warmer

America's neighbor to the north has seen wide ranging impacts from the tariffs on goods sent to the

Catholics around the world are in mourning following the death of Pope Francis. We go to one tiny ch

Pope Francis died of a stroke on Easter Monday, according to the Vatican. He was one of the most pop

In Kenya, generations of mostly Somalians have lived in one of the world's largest refugee camps for

The discovery of a clandestine cartel crematorium on a disused ranch in Jalisco has once again raise

After being hunted to near extinction, wolves have made a population comeback in recent decades with

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his cou

The Trump administration is undertaking shifts in U.S. foreign policy and that has meant big shifts

Many communities have thrived for years on the peninsula and islands in the lagoon around Nigeria's

The United States has long been a center for academic and scientific research. But two phenomena may

Since the rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad ended, Israel has attacked Syria hundreds of times

Following Israel declaring an end to the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza last month, the Israeli milita

Until very recently Sudan's capital, Khartoum, had spent nearly two years at war. A paramilitary gro

We heard a lot about the planning by U.S. national security officials for a bombing campaign against

The world is reacting to President Trump's announcement of new tariffs on nearly every country on th

The new government in Syria, formed after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, is working to disban