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Japan’s deputy foreign minister has said negotiations with the Islamic State group threatening to execute a Jordanian pilot and a Japanese journalist …

President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will be at the National Prayer Breakfast next week in Washington, the first time the two men have been together in …

The European Union and Germany warned Greece’s radical new left-wing government Thursday that there is little support for a reduction in its massive debts, …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― A bill that would levy tough new sanctions on Iran if it fails to sign an agreement to curb its nuclear program cleared a Senate committee …

Google’s fourth-quarter sales and profit missed estimates as the Web company’s advertising business faced more competition on mobile devices. Revenue, …

Colleen McCullough. (AP) SYDNEY (AFP) ― Internationally acclaimed Australian author, Colleen McCullough, whose novel “The Thorn Birds” sold more than 30 …

ANGOULME, France (AFP) ― The world’s leading comics festival was set to open in France on Thursday under a tight net of security as it dedicated this …

THE HAGUE (AFP) ― A man armed with a fake gun disrupted Dutch television on Thursday evening when he forced his way into the building of public broadcaster …

In this photo provided by the Two Eagles Balloon Team, Troy Bradley of New Mexico and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 …

NEW YORK (AP) ― Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch’’ whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s won him an Oscar …