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NEW DELHI - In the three months since a band of youths tortured and killed 20 hostages in a Dhaka restaurant, Bangladeshi intelligence officials say they’re rooting out radicals and restoring se...

MADRID - Nearly 40 migrants have ended an overnight protest on the rooftop of a detention centre in Spain’s capital. The migrants, most reported to be from Algeria, shouted for “Freedom...

DARMSTADT, Germany - The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet Wednesday. Scientists said that wasn’t a good sig...

NEW YORK - Starbucks is pushing ahead with its expansion into China and said Wednesday that it is on track to having 5,000 stores there by 2021, more than doubling the number of coffee shops it curren...

BRUSSELS - The head of Belgium’s small Wallonia region is rejecting a Friday deadline to sign up to a huge trade deal between Canada and the European Union, demanding a full renegotiation that c...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police and other law enforcement organizations around the world co-operated in a massive weeklong operation targeting organized crime that led to 314 arrests, the seizure or 2...

YOLA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. ...

OSLO - Defending cross-country World Cup champion Therese Johaug was handed a two-month provisional suspension Wednesday pending a full investigation into her positive doping test. Johaug, one of Norw...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A federal judge was considering on Wednesday whether the jury in a University of Virginia administrator’s defamation suit against Rolling Stone should be able to watch a v...

WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials are warning that they’ll be dispatching fewer trained election observers as a result of a Supreme Court opinion that gutted a key provision of the Votin...