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BAGHDAD (AFP) ― Suicide bombers and gunmen Thursday attacked a bus transferring convicts from a prison north of Baghdad, sparking fierce clashes with …

HYDERABAD, India (AFP) ― A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday, killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll …

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) ― Two bombings in a key Nigerian city targeting a prominent cleric and a former head-of-state killed at least 42 people on Wednesday, in …

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AFP) ― Dozens more bodies from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are set to arrive in the Netherlands on Thursday, as …

CARACAS (AP) ― A top leader of the antigovernment protests that wracked Venezuela for months this spring is getting his day in court. Opposition firebrand …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The White House cast the downing of two fighter jets in Ukraine on Wednesday as part of a pattern of Russian-backed separatists using …

Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 after it crashed into a sunflower field near the village of Rassipnoe, in rebel-held east Ukraine. (AFP-Yonhap) …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― U.S. economic growth this year will likely be at the weakest pace since the Great Recession ended, the International Monetary Fund said, …

NEW DELHI (AFP) ― The World Bank on Wednesday offered India up to $18 billion in financial support over the next three years while lavishly praising new …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) ― Argentina’s president said Wednesday that her country will not go into default because it has been paying debts to bondholders on time. …