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SURUC, Turkey (AFP) ― Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey on Saturday, fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State group that …

Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the lawn on the north side of the White House in Washington on Saturday. (AP-Yonhap) WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. …

KABUL (AFP) ― Afghanistan’s two rival presidential candidates signed a power-sharing deal on Sunday, ending a prolonged stand-off over disputed election …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. President Barack Obama plans to make his case against the Islamic State militants before the world at the United Nations General …

PARIS (AFP) ― On the face of it, the return to France’s political stage of unpopular right-wing former president Nicolas Sarkozy is welcome news for the …

WELLINGTON (AFP) ― The New Zealand government’s handling of a fragile economy was the “overwhelming” reason for its third election victory, Prime …

EDINBURGH (AFP) ― Having rejected independence and lost First Minister Alex Salmond, Scotland woke up to an unsettled future Saturday as fears grew that new …

BEIJING (AP) ― Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline was fined $492 million on Friday for bribing doctors in China, the biggest such penalty ever imposed by a Chinese …

Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus (left) and iPhone 6. (Bloomberg) More buyers are picking Apple Inc.’s iPhone 6 Plus over the iPhone 6 in this debut weekend, …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in Alibaba Group that has turned into a …