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BAGHDAD (AP) — The latest plunge in oil prices has dealt a heavy blow to Iraq’s stagnating economy, threatening the…

PARIS (AP) — The United States and Israel officially quit UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency, at the…

  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her…

JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his Hui people’s oppression under China’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts on Thursday,…

CAIRO (AP) — The United States, Britain, Norway and Canada say they are concerned by “credible reports” that Sudan’s security…

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The year 2018 has been called the “year for cannabis” in South Africa. But there…

SHANGHAI (AP) — It took less than 24 hours for all the Christmas trees, lights and bells to disappear from…

  BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian war monitor and Turkish media say Turkey is massing troops near a town in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war,…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is considering leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial whale hunts, the Fisheries Agency said…

KASHAN, Iran (AP) — As the Trump administration works to unravel Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with word powers, the producers…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Against the advice of many in his own administration, President Donald Trump is pulling US troops out…

See full photo gallery here.   KONYA, Turkey (AP) — Every December, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the…

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has extended monthly allowances for government employees, military personnel, pensioners,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order soon, possibly as early as Tuesday, creating…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bridges may have once been considered as one of Hollywood’s most underappreciated actors, but next…

  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As the Middle East ushers in 2019, the decade’s ruinous conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya…

  BEIRUT (AP) — The use of armed drones in the Middle East, driven largely by sales from China, has…

  BANGKOK (AP) — The Philippines’ Catriona Gray was named Miss Universe 2018 in a competition held in Bangkok on…