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PARIS (AFP) ― Global demand for oil is still weighed heavily by weak economic growth, and this together with a supply glut is pushing down prices which may …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Just as the U.S. job market has finally strengthened, the Federal Reserve now confronts a new worry: A sputtering global economy that’s …

A second health worker at the Texas hospital where the first case of Ebola contamination on US soil occurred has tested positive for the disease, the state …

VATICAN CITY (AP) ― Catholic bishops signaled a radical shift in tone Monday about accepting gays into the church, saying they had gifts to offer and that …

PARIS ― French economist Jean Tirole is a master of game theory and industrial organization, who on Monday added a Nobel prize to a gleaming heap of honors …

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Attacks by masked men on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters have shone an uncomfortable spotlight on the city’s pervasive and shadowy …

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AFP) ― Jihadists fought their way into central Kobane in heavy clashes with the Syrian border town’s Kurdish defenders Monday, ahead …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday warned against “provocations” as clashes erupted at Jerusalem’s holy sites, condemning Israeli …

MONROVIA (AFP) ― Doctors and nurses across Liberia went on strike on Monday to demand danger money to care for Ebola patients, as the World Health …

HYDERABAD, India (AP) ― Rescue workers and soldiers cleared uprooted trees and electrical poles blocking roads in eastern India after a tropical cyclone …