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Syria's government says it is willing to meet the country's opposition in Moscow to seek an end to the nearly four-year civil war.

Hundreds of desperate passengers on a burning car ferry off Greece are pleading to be saved as rescuers fight gale-force winds and high seas tying to reach them.

An aerial and maritime search around southern Borneo for a passenger jet with 162 people on board has been suspended for the night. The Airbus A320 disappeared Sunday morning, Asia time, on a flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore. Most of those on board were Indonesians.

Pakistan's military says security forces ambushed "a large assembly of terrorists" near the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 16 of them and wounding 20 others.

The U.S. Department of Defense and Japanese Ministry of Defense announced today the deployment of a second Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2) radar in Japan to Kyogamisaki to enhance sensor coverage for ballistic missile defense of Japan and the U.S. homeland. The Kyogamisaki Communications Site (KCS) radar will augment an existing radar located at Shariki in northern Japan.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said the continental body remains committed to supporting the Somali people and government in rebuilding their country.

The father of a Jordanian captured by Islamic State militants in Syria is pleading with the rebel group for the fighter pilot's safe return.

Audiences across the United States on Thursday flocked to see the controversial comedy "The Interview" after Sony Pictures reconsidered its decision to pull the film.

Pope Francis condemned the “brutal persecution” of minorities by Islamic State insurgents in his Christmas message on Thursday and urged people not to be indifferent to the suffering of so many around the world.