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BERN, Switzerland (AP) ― Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected three citizen-backed proposals to protect the country’s wealth by investing in gold, …
BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s manufacturing growth skidded to an eight-month low in November, an official survey showed Monday, signaling further downward …
Robert De Niro ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) ― The prime minister of Antigua & Barbuda has appointed actor Robert De Niro as special economic envoy of the …
ISTANBUL (AFP) ― Pope Francis and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Sunday issued a rare joint plea against anti-Christian violence, saying the …
DOHA (AP) ― An American couple cleared Sunday by a Qatari appeals court of wrongdoing in the death of their 8-year-old adopted daughter has been barred from …
MEXICO CITY (AFP) ― Tens of thousands of fans filled a Mexico City stadium Sunday to say goodbye to “Chespirito,” comedian Roberto Gomez Bolanos, whose …
SYDNEY (AFP) ― Australian police Monday urged the mother of a baby found dead and buried in the sand at a popular Sydney beach to come forward, as the city …
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) ― Bibijan Rahimullah stepped aboard a small boat in Myanmar in October for what she was told would be a week-long journey to Malaysia to …
TOKYO (AP)–Moody’s downgraded the Japanese government’s credit rating Monday in the wake of the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to …
BEIJING–China called for Japan on Monday to speed up the destruction of chemical weapons left behind by the Japanese military during World War II, as …