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SANILURFA, Turkey (AP) – Airstrikes likely carried out by a U.S.-led coalition struck an oil refinery in Syria held by the Islamic State group Sunday, a …

HONG KONG ― Police fired tear gas as tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators brought parts of central Hong Kong to a standstill Sunday, in a …

U.S. aircraft were flying “near continuous” bombing raids against Islamic State militants in Syria, officials said late Friday, after Britain and two more …

DAMASCUS (AFP) ― The U.S.-led coalition widened its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on Saturday as British warplanes flew their first …

TOKYO (AP) ― Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― The Russian foreign minister issued a blistering attack on the West and NATO on Saturday, accusing them of being unable to change their …

CAIRO (AP) ― An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed its ruling until November in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak, charged with complicity in …

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ―The president of Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the …

GENEVA (AFP) ― The death toll in the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,000, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 6,500 …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is getting some unsolicited advice on how to turn around the long-struggling Internet company, just like some of …