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President Donald Trump said Wednesday it was a “sad day” as he prepared to reckon with the aftermath of a…

Jesmyn Ward, Masha Gessen and Frances Fitzgerald are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards. On Wednesday, the…

A 106-year-old Afghan woman who made a perilous journey to Europe in 2015 that involved her son and grandson carrying…

A member of Iran’s team of nuclear negotiators that struck the 2015 deal with world powers has been sentenced to…

The European Union is telling member state Luxembourg to get $295 million in back taxes from Amazon, in Brussels’ latest…

Iran’s state TV is reporting the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Iran as Tehran and Ankara weigh how…

Ants and beetles in the kitchen? Normally that’d close down a restaurant immediately, but for a unique eatery in Bangkok,…

When Americans started falling ill last year in Havana, the victims of eerie, invisible attacks, investigators seized on a key…

In many parts of the world, the constant fear of extremist attacks has led to tighter security measures at hotels…

Spain’s National Court is to quiz two senior officers of Catalonia’s regional police force and the leaders of two pro-Catalan…

The Las Vegas gunman’s girlfriend, back in the United States after a weekslong trip abroad, will be at the center…

Flags flew at half-staff across Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region on Wednesday as Iraqi Kurds began observing a week of…

The European Court of Justice has been asked to consider whether Facebook’s Dublin-based subsidiary can legally transfer users’ personal data…

Kurdish officials say former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83. A…

Israel’s prime minister has pledged to build thousands of new housing units in the West Bank’s biggest Jewish settlement and…

Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday met with Qatar’s ruling emir as a quartet of Arab states continues its boycott of…

Authorities in Madagascar are struggling to contain an outbreak of plague that has killed two-dozen people since last month. The…

Egypt’s Interior Ministry says police have killed three suspected militants in a shootout in a southern Cairo suburb. The ministry…

The new CEO of Uber will meet with London transport officials, just days after they refused to renew the cab-hailing…

Tom Petty, an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds, the Beatles and other bands he worshipped…