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A WFP barge transporting food supplies on the Nile River

Police in northwestern Pakistan say they have detained a key militant commander who is accused in the 2012 killing of a reporter for Voice of America's Deewa Radio.

UN peacekeepers patrolling Tessalit, northern Mali.

The Census Bureau said the U.S. population grew a bit less than 1 percent over the last year and will hit 320,090,857 at New Year.

Rescuers continue to work Monday to save the hundreds of passengers still aboard a burning Greek ferry off the island of Corfu.

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013.

The chief of the search effort for missing Indonesia AirAsia flight 8501, which vanished a day earlier, stated Monday that "the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea."

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.