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It’s as tall as some of L.A.’s highest skyscrapers, but the only residents here are rats and cockroaches.

A long-time Red Cross staffer has been killed by his kidnappers in Pakistan, the International Committee of the Red Cross and British government said Sunday.

The president of Sudan declared a state of emergency Sunday for cities along the hotly contested border with South Sudan, where Sudanese fighter jets launched at least one attack against their neighbor’s ground forces.

The U.N. chief makes a landmark visit to Myanmar on Sunday, the latest high-profile official to visit the nation as it undergoes economic and political reforms.

Gunmen attacked part of a university in the Nigerian city of Kano, a professor said Sunday

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed three people Sunday at a high school in northern Pakistan where militants were hiding, intelligence officials said.

Worldwide donors honor a young woman who died while running the London Marathon to raise money for charity.

Jay-Z and Kanye West’s recent hit “Niggas in Paris” is about them. They rap about being so phenomenally rich, about how they “ball so hard,” buy Rolexes and cars, pop gold bottles with models in Paris nightclubs, that the rest of us slobs couldn’t fath…

At least eight people were killed, including one suicide bomber, and dozens were wounded in three bomb blasts in central and northern Nigeria on Thursday, the Red Cross said.

A grenade attack targeting a church in the Kenyan capital left one person dead and 16 others injured Sunday, authorities said.