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A Belgian consumer protection agency launched a lawsuit against Facebook for alleged violations of Belgian and European Union laws and regulations.

The Polish government has built six unmanned watchtowers overlooking the frontier along the Russia-Poland border.

China has taken steps to increase the national health warning regarding South Korea’s deadly MERS outbreak as the South Korean government announced new MERS-related deaths this Monday.

Recent videos from Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram may suggest that its leadership is divided over their professed loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old Polish President-Elect and a practicing Catholic, recently made a pilgrimage to the National Shrine at Czestowocha to pray for divine guidance as he prepares to lead his country.

South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye postponed a scheduled trip to the United States so she could stay in her home country to supervise the public health response to the MERS crisis gripping South Korea.

A court in the northern Nigerian state of Kano recently dismissed the charges against a 14-year-old girl who killed her 35-year-old husband and three of his friends with rat poison.

New reports released by the federal government indicate that the suicide rate for women who have served in the military is six times higher than that of women who have not.

An eight-year-old boy whose father allegedly attempted to smuggle him into Spain from Africa in a suitcase has been reunited with his mother, Spanish authorities say, in the Spanish territory of the Canary Islands. He will be allowed to stay for one year, despite entering the country illegally.

Australian Senator Dio Wang is facing intense criticism for essentially endorsing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacres.

Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau have each issued travel warnings for South Korea, where a deadly outbreak of the MERS virus is spreading rapidly.

Four Saudi children have died and 28 others have been hospitalized due to a poisoning in an Iranian hotel. Three of the dead were only three years old and the fourth was a 14-year-old girl.

Comments about the Bangladeshi Prime Minister made by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ignited a firestorm on Twitter this Sunday. “I am happy that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, despite being a woman, is openly saying that she has zero tolerance for terrorism. I would like to congratulate Sheikh Hasina for her courage to deal with terrorism with zero tolerance,” Modi said at Dhaka University.

On Friday, officials from the World Health Organization announced that the United Nations agency would send a team of health experts to Seoul to assess South Korea’s public health response to the recent outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome plaguing the nation.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was repeatedly interrupted by supporters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a unity rally held in Tehran on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in India to sign a defense agreement that will have a major impact on the region.

After outcry from supporters, Instagram restored an account dedicated to memorializing the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamist revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The account, which has over 100,000 followers according to some media reports, has posted over 600 photos of the late cleric and revolutionary.

Gunmen killed two members of the Egyptian tourist police force and injured a conscript in front of the Giza Pyramids outside of Cairo on Tuesday.

Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) is injecting himself into the controversy over a Colorado charter school that refused to allow its 2015 valedictorian to give what the school calls a “disrespectful” and “inappropriate” address.

South Korean officials announced on Wednesday that they can confirm the existence of five new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, commonly called MERS.

German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.

Al-Shabaab, a Somali terror group, has been making waves in a big way in Kenya over the last several days.

Ahmed Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator and former CAIR community organizer, was arrested along with 100 others in a sting operation on a child sex ring in Florida, police said in a conference on Tuesday.

Observers have known Islamic State terrorists have managed to get their hands on Iraqi equipment, but on Sunday, the Iraqi Prime Minister revealed the stunning numbers. “In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons… We lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told Iraqi state television.

After late-night talks in Berlin with global leaders, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says that Greece has reached a “realistic” solution to the debt crisis ahead of Friday’s impending deadline.

Neither Iran nor the West are friendly with ISIS, but if an Iranian cartoon contest is any metric, their mutual enemy is not pushing the powers closer together.

According to the Yemeni government-in-exile, United States diplomats are in discussions with Yemen’s Houthis, a Shiite rebel group which seized control of the Gulf country earlier this year.

Days after the United States pledged to supply the Iraqi military with more modern equipment, ISIS used American equipment abandoned by fleeing Iraqis to commit a suicide attack on an important ammunition depot.

A group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS assassinated Saber Siam, a senior Hamas commander, according to reports on Sunday.

Thousands of Muslim Turks marched this past weekend to observe the anniversary of the Israeli raid of a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla in 2010, chanting, “Muslims, don’t sleep, protect your brothers!” Commemorating the event, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed longing for Muslims “to hoist the Islamic flag over Jerusalem again.”

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hopes to get the final details of a bailout deal with the European Union worked out by Sunday, but he has faced increased criticism from the hard left in Greece for negotiating at all.

According to a diplomatic source speaking to Palestinian Ma’an news, Egyptian officials told Israeli security forces to “hold their aggression” and restrain their response to recent rocket attacks coming from the Gaza Strip.

A teenage boy stole nearly $500 from two war veterans this Memorial Day weekend. Harvey Krasner, 90, and Gerry Geisler, 79, were raising money for veterans’ organizations in front of a Rancho Mirage, California, grocery store, when the incident occurred.

Nigerian officials reached a preliminary agreement with multinational oil firms to pay back the $800 million Nigeria owes the oil suppliers in an effort to bring an end to the country’s dire fuel shortage.

On Tuesday, gunmen attacked UN-backed Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni in Tobruk, the seat of the nation’s parliament, another in a series of terrorist acts in the chaotic country.

Most Americans set aside Memorial Day weekend as a special time to honor those who have served our nation. However, an Illinois restaurant is under fire for the way they mistreated a veteran this Sunday.