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TUNIS (AFP) ― Foreign observers on Tuesday praised Tunisia’s landmark “free” elections, after the Islamists conceded defeat in a vote that raised hopes …

MANAMA (AP) ― A Bahraini court ordered the activities of the country’s main Shiite opposition group to be suspended on Tuesday, less than a month before …

ANKARA (AP) ― Surging water trapped at least 18 workers Tuesday in a coal mine in Turkey, officials and reports said ― an event likely to raise even more …

COLOMBO (AP) ― A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains buried scores of workers’ houses at a tea estate in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least …

OUAGADOUGOU (AP) ― Burkina Faso’s longtime leader refused to resign Thursday in the face of violent protests that posed the greatest threat to his nearly …

KOSLANDA, Sri Lanka (AFP) ― Heavy rains disrupted a massive search Thursday for scores of people feared buried in a landslide on a Sri Lankan tea estate, …

BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Russia agreed to resume gas deliveries to war-torn Ukraine through the winter in an EU-brokered, multibillion dollar deal signed by the …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. economy powered its way to a respectable growth rate of 3.5 percent from July through September, outpacing most of the developed …

NEW YORK (AP) ― Apple CEO Tim Cook’s declaration that he’s “proud to be gay” wasn’t exactly news in Silicon Valley, where his sexual orientation …

WASHINGTON ― When the Federal Reserve announced the end of its landmark bond buying program Wednesday, it also signaled the start of something else: The …