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NEW YORK (AP) ― Apple wants the plastic credit card to become as rare as the paper check. On Tuesday, the company announced Apple Pay, a digital payment …

LONDON (AFP) ― Scots head to the polls on Thursday for an independence referendum that could end its three centuries old union with England and create …

ISLAMABAD (AP) ― Pakistani police arrested antigovernment protesters in what activists said was an effort to crack down on weekslong sit-ins in the capital, …

MANILA (AP) ― Rescuers saved about 100 people overnight and recovered two bodies from a ferry that sank in rough seas after encountering steering trouble in …

SYDNEY (AFP) ― Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday Australia would deploy 600 troops to the United Arab Emirates to join the U.S.-led international …

KIEV (AFP) ― Tensions over Ukraine festered on Saturday after Kiev accused the Kremlin of seeking to “eliminate” the pro-Western former Soviet nation …

BERLIN (AFP) ― The U.S. National Security Agency and British intelligence services are able to secretly access data from telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and …

STOCKHOLM (AP) ― Sweden heads into a parliamentary election on Sunday with polls showing the left-leaning Social Democrats poised to return to power after …

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Wealthy mainland Chinese looking to buy the new iPhone 6 this week could expect to pay an eye-watering $2,500 for the handsets in Hong …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The United States hit Russia Friday with a new round of economic sanctions, levying penalties on Russia’s largest bank and expanding …