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LONDON (AFP) ― British voters are pessimistic about Prime Minister David Cameron’s ability to achieve reforms to the European Union that he believes are …

BEIJING (AFP) ― Courts in China’s ethnically-divided Xinjiang, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have sentenced 113 people to jail on mostly terrorism-related …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian in Gaza hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that operations could be …

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) ― Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshippers and torched four churches Sunday in a village just miles from the town …

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) ― Muslims began observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday with Islamic leaders again concerned about entrenched …

KIEV (AFP) ― With Ukraine’s shaky truce set to expire Monday, the leaders of Germany and France have warned Vladimir Putin that Russia could face punishing …

TRIPOLI (AFP) ― A Tunisian diplomat and a fellow embassy staffer who were abducted in Libya returned to Tunisia on a military plane early Monday after being …

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Organizers Monday urged Hong Kong’s government to take seriously an unofficial referendum on democratic reform after nearly 800,000 …

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. (Bloomberg) HAVANA (AFP) ― Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt visited Cuba this week along with three other top …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand “emotional contagion” in a study that prompted anger and …