Despite the ceasefire brokered at last week's top-level Minsk summit, fighting continued on Monday in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists exchanged what the news service called "intense" fire around the bitterly contested town of Debaltseve.
The collapse of the American-backed government in Yemen took the U.S. intelligence community by surprise, the Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official admitted on Thursday as he testified before Congress.
For the first time, Egypt has acknowledged military action in Libya. Egyptian jets bombed ISIS targets in Libya on Monday, the day after a video surfaced showing Islamic State members beheading 21 Egyptian Christians, reports Reuters.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena made India his first visit abroad. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena made India his first visit abroad.
Police are looking to investigate a case after a mother said she found $800 worth of marijuana in her 4-year-old son's toy she bought at an Ontario Target store, CTV News reports.
Pluspetrol, an Argentine oil company has announced that it will withdraw from an area of the Peruvian Amazon known as Pichanaki where it has been prospecting for potential gasoline deposits
A new strain of HIV discovered in Cuban patients is worrying researchers. The HIV strain could turn to AIDS in as little as three years if left untreated.
Gerardo Pollicita, an Argentine prosecutor has requested that a federal judge investigate President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner over allegations that she helped to cover up Iranian links to 1994 bombing at a Jewish center that led to the deaths of 85 people.
Brazil's annual Carnival kicked off on Feb. 13 and will run through Feb. 17. Rio de Janeiro's annual Carnival kicked off on Feb. 13 and will run through Feb.
