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The State Department is temporarily closing the U.S. Consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra and evacuating all diplomats stationed there.

"Enjoy 'standing' on the surface of this asteroid!" Japan's space agency, JAXA, wrote on their Twitter post containing the video.

The Dutch government is considering a proposal to ban the use of smartphones and other "mobile electronic devices" on bicycles.

Canada's House of Commons voted unanimously Thursday to revoke honorary citizenship for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Trump once called them "shitholes." Now artists from those countries are reclaiming the epithet.

Alan Yu heads home to Hong Kong to investigate the ways acupuncture is used in the medical system there.

Visitors line the hallways — even sleep on the floor — anxious for loved ones to recover. Noora Health trains overflow family to care for patients once they return home.

Instead of reporting the stolen data as required by law, Uber paid the hackers $100,000.

President Donald Trump waded into thorny Middle East politics while at the United Nations on Wednesday, endorsing the two-state solution.

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

A gaping ideological divide cuts through this year's gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.

White House aides had cast Trump's visit to New York in triumphal terms: an opportunity to assert American sovereignty before the multinational body.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who says he sexually assaulted her.

China and Russia's increasing military and economic ties come as a trade war escalates between China and the U.S.

NPR is visiting North Korea on the government's terms.