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H.K. officials resume work as protests thin

HONG KONG (AP) ― Student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong subsided Monday but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, …

Fear grows in U.S. following first diagnosed Ebola case
Fear grows in U.S. following first diagnosed Ebola case

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Assurances from U.S. health officials that there is almost no chance of a U.S. Ebola outbreak are doing little to allay Americans’ …

Kurds battle IS for key Syrian town
Kurds battle IS for key Syrian town

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AFP) ― Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town Sunday, with one woman …

Search for Malaysian jet resumes

SYDNEY (AP) ― The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed Monday in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, more than six months after the jet …

Typhoon washes 3 U.S. airmen out to sea in Japan
Typhoon washes 3 U.S. airmen out to sea in Japan

TOKYO (AP) ― A powerful typhoon made landfall in central Japan Monday morning after washing three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea the previous day, …

Mexican mass grave holds 28 bodies
Mexican mass grave holds 28 bodies

IGUALA, Mexico (AP) ― Mexican forensic experts recovered 28 charred bodies from a clandestine grave on the outskirts of this city where police engaged in a …

U.S. drone kills 5 militants in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) ― A U.S. drone strike on Sunday killed at least five militants in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, …

Cybercrime costing U.S. billions, FBI chief says

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― China is waging an aggressive cyberwar against the United States which costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal …

Morales favored for reelection in Bolivia

LA PAZ (AFP) ― Bolivia’s socialist President Evo Morales is expected to score a reelection sweep next Sunday so solid that he likely will win on the first …

Man dies from Ebola-like Marburg virus in Uganda

KAMPALA (AFP) ― A hospital technician has died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Kampala, the Ugandan government announced Sunday. The man, aged 30, died in …

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