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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) ― Argentina said Wednesday it will pay all its creditors in Buenos Aires, seeking to circumvent a U.S. court order barring it from …

NEW YORK (AFP) ― U.S. antitrust officials have fined Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway $896,000 for failing to notify regulators ahead of a large …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Federal Reserve policymakers showed increasing divisions in their last meeting over how much the U.S. jobs market has improved, a key …

Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on crowds as they evacuated a …

Thailand’s junta-picked national assembly on Thursday chose coup leader General Prayut Chan-O-Cha as prime minister in a one-horse race that entrenched …

US President Barack Obama demanded Wednesday the world take action against the “cancer” of jihadist extremism in Iraq, as Washington revealed it …

United Nations Security Council members are rejecting North Korea’s request for a meeting to protest joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises. North …

The armed wing of Hamas warned foreign airlines against flying into Tel Aviv on Wednesday and declared truce talks in Cairo over as a six-week war with Israel …

Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan said Wednesday he felt “ashamed” of his son’s detention on drug-related charges, adding he had “failed …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― When racial tensions erupted midway through his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama came to Philadelphia to decry the “racial …