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TOKYO (AP) – What’s in a word? As Japan’s leader prepares to issue a statement Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, …

CAIRO, (AFP) – The Islamic State group claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian hostage abducted in Egypt, posting a purported picture of the …

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The surprise reorganization of Google under newly formed parent Alphabet gives the tech giant the ability to focus on its core …

VIENNA (AFP) — OPEC on Tuesday revised upward its growth forecast for global oil demand in 2015 and maintained projected record levels of world …

DUBLIN (AFP) — Amnesty International was going through a fraught vote Tuesday on whether the human rights organisation should back decriminalising …

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — The two suspects in a knife attack at an Ikea store in Sweden that left two dead are Eritrean asylum-seekers, one of whom has denied …

ATHENS (AP) — Greece has agreed on the broad terms of a new three-year bailout package with international creditors, with a few last details expected to …

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (AP) — Billionaire and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump returned to Fox News Tuesday morning for the first time …

THE HAGUE (AFP) — Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said Tuesday they had identified pieces …

Japan on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives almost instantly, in one of the final …