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Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the…
A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the…
Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had…
Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had…
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South…
Five bomb blasts took place in Delhi, India, killing at least 20 people as part of a series of attacks perpetrated by…
Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding…
Seven al-Qaeda fighters attack the embassy of the United States in Sanaa, Yemen, leaving 20 people dead.
A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before…
Seven al-Qaeda fighters attacked the United States embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, leaving 20 people dead.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to…
Barack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the…
After 30 years in power, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was succeeded by Mohamed Nasheed as president of the Maldives.
Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tall
Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam
As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military an
Two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters (pictured) conducted a series of air-to-ground attacks in Baghdad.
An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 6.6 struck…
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from…