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BRUSSELS (AFP) ― The European Commission on Monday announced a series of exceptional measures to help growers hit by a Russian ban on fruit and vegetable …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain …

Liberia was desperately searching for 17 Ebola patients Monday who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital Monrovia, as the outbreak appeared to …

Thea Bisenberger-van der Wal says she still remembers sitting on the steps of a church in Indonesia back in 1944 while waiting for her mother to come out. Her …

Turkey said it had summoned the German ambassador Monday to demand an explanation for reports that Berlin has been spying on the country for years. German …

FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) ― Missouri’s governor on Monday ordered the National Guard to a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of …

Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country’s largest dam from Islamic militants, a …

ISLAMABAD (AFP) ― Pakistan’s Imran Khan on Sunday called on thousands of protesters rallying in Islamabad to launch a civil disobedience movement against …

MONROVIA (AFP) ― Seventeen Ebola patients in Liberia who fled from a quarantine center after it was attacked by club-wielding youths were missing on Sunday, …

CAIRO (AP) ― Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Egypt-mediated Gaza truce talks hardened their positions Monday ahead of the expiration of a five-day …