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TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran has released an Iranian journalist arrested almost three months ago with her husband, the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason …

IGUALA, Mexico (AFP) ― Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city’s entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have signaled …

NAIROBI (AP) ― Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday told the nation in an address before parliament that he would temporarily step down as president …

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― Facebook on Monday completed its buy of mobile messaging application WhatsApp, with the mostly stock deal tallying nearly $22 billion. …

BRUSSELS (AFP) ― European Union antitrust regulators are to challenge Luxembourg over its tax deals with Internet shopping giant Amazon that Brussels …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets aren’t just changing the way we live and work. They are shaking up Silicon Valley’s balance …

The death toll from a typhoon that pounded Japan this week has risen to six, while five other people including two US serviceman remain missing, reports said …

Small knots of pro-democracy demonstrators remained on Hong Kong’s streets Tuesday morning after protest leaders agreed to talks with the government and …

STOCKHOLM (AP) _ A U.S.-British scientist and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the …