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HONG KONG (AFP) ― Police arrested protesters as they moved in Monday to clear Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy site, with just a handful of …

ROME (AFP) ― The Palestinian leadership on Sunday said it planned to submit a resolution to the U.N. Security Council setting a two-year deadline for Israel …

Ekrem Dumanli, editor-in-chief of Zaman newspaper, acknowledges cheering supporters as he is detained outside his office in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday. …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Defenders and critics locked horns Sunday over last week’s release of a U.S. report that aired harrowing new details of America’s …

ROME (AFP) ― Top U.S. diplomat John Kerry met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday, amid anger in Moscow over the prospect of new U.S. sanctions …

QUITO (AP) ― A sudden collapse at the site of Ecuador’s largest-ever infrastructure project killed 13 people and injured a dozen more, officials said …

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ―Haiti’s emboldened opposition welcomed the resignation Sunday of Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, who faced repeated calls to go over …

OPEC will stand by its decision not to cut output even if oil prices fall as low as $40 a barrel and will wait at least three months before considering an …

PARIS (AFP) ― Addicted to liquidity and disconnected from the real economy, global markets are likely to dance in 2015 to the different monetary policy tunes …

BARCELONA (AFP) ― Maite Izquierdo and her family are doing their best to get by in Spain’s economic crisis, but work and money don’t come by magic. Or …