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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – How far will Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank go to boost inflation and a shaky economy? Market participants are waiting …

MINAMISOMA, Japan (AP) – The ashes of half a dozen unidentified laborers ended up at a Buddhist temple in this town just north of the crippled Fukushima …

SAO PAULO (AFP) — Brazilian state prosecutors on Wednesday filed money laundering charges against ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a dramatic …

HONG KONG (AFP) — Asian investors turned positive again Thursday, extending a global advance, as they turn their attention to a European Central Bank …

BEIJING (AFP) — China’s consumer inflation jumped to 2.3 percent in February, its highest in nearly two years, official data showed Thursday, in a …

Nancy Reagan, the devoted wife and trusted confidante to late president Ronald Reagan who after his death became the most ardent guardian of his political …

The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union in 2015 reached 1,255,640 — more than double that of the previous year, new figures suggest. …

U.S. workers have been largely insulated from a global slowdown. Job growth remains steady and wages are finally picking up _ trends that will be put to the …

China will raise its military budget by seven to eight percent this year, the spokeswoman for the country’s rubber-stamp parliament said Friday, marking …

BAGHDAD (AP) _ Continuous violence has left at least 670 Iraqis dead in February, of whom about two-thirds were civilians, the United Nations said. In a …