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MANILA, Philippines - Human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ regime petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block and nullify a government directive to have the...

AMIRIYAH AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq - As Iraqi political and military attention shifts north in the fight against the Islamic State group, the military victories that have put Iraqi forces on Mosul’s doo...

WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia businessman who illegally poured more than $3 million into city, state and federal elections - helping a mayor of Washington get elected and then creating a scandal...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says troops have demolished the home of the family of a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli teenage girl to death. It says the home of 17-year-old Mohammed TarayrehR...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honours convicted war criminals among the nation’s war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighbouring c...

LUSAKA, Zambia - Zambia’s president has been re-elected in a closely contested vote over the main opposition leader, the country’s election panel said Monday. However, opposition allegatio...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania’s first elected female attorney general announced her resignation Tuesday, a day after being convicted of abusing the powers of the state’s top law enforceme...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has summoned officials from Austria and Sweden to protest against news reports and Twitter comments in the two countries relating to a Turkish constitutional Court ruling on ch...

PARIS - The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey bord...

BATON ROUGE, La. - As the Louisiana floodwaters swallowed Lyn Gibson’s two-story home, she hacked away on a hole near the roof, desperately trying to get to safety. She used a saw, a screwdriver...