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MONROEVILLE, Alabama (AP) ― Alice Lee, the sister of the famous “To Kill a Mockingbird” author and an influential Alabama lawyer and church leader in her …

NEW YORK (AP) ― People magazine has named Chris Hemsworth the “Sexiest Man Alive” of 2014, cheering the Australian actor’s rise as hammer-wielding, …

TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election for December and put off a sales tax hike planned for next year until 2017 as the …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― It’s a Hollywood sci-fi fantasy that has long eluded the Pentagon: a flying “mothership” that launches smaller aircraft. The …

With Japan’s slump into its fourth recession since 2008 threatening the failure of the Abenomics reflation program, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s …

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (left) meets health workers in the village of Kouremale near the border with Guinea on Monday. (AFP-Yonhap) BAMAKO …

BEIRUT (AFP) ― U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how Washington can release American hostages, as intelligence agencies investigated the …

HONG KONG (AP) ― Workers in Hong Kong on Tuesday started clearing away barricades at one site of the student protest that has rocked the city for the last …

JERUSALEM (AP) ― Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, attacking worshippers praying inside with knives, axes and guns, and killing four …

FERGUSON, Missouri (AFP) ― The governor of the U.S. state of Missouri declared a state of emergency Monday and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand …