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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a surprise speech late Sunday, resisted calls for his resignation and accused the c...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no. Now, as universities around...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's rebels are surrounded and ready to agree to a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe," the insurgents' ne...

KHAZER CAMP, Iraq (AP) — President Barack Obama justified the U.S. military's return to fighting in Iraq Saturday by saying America must act now to pr...

It was supposed to be over, America's war in Iraq. So all the old emotions boiled up anew as Americans absorbed the news that U.S. bombs were again st...

BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brough...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an unexpectedly sweeping move that ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in India Thursday to press for a number of new weapons agreements, including a pilot plan for t...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — They were leaders of Cambodia's infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that...

GAZA CITY, Gaza City (AP) — A senior Hamas official told supporters at a Gaza City rally on Thursday that the war with Israel won't be over until the ...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Sustained shelling in the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine struck residential buildings and a hospital, killing at lea...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Germany made headlines this week by letting Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, pay $100 million to end his bribery ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was an "appalling witness" who repeatedly lied in his testimony in a crude attempt to defend against a m...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a telephone tip led to the arrest of a 20-year-old man they say fired a gun at an officer and a sergeant in Queens. Christi...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas has entered Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel on a new border regime for blockaded Gaza from a point of military ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hit back hard against countries that have imposed sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, order...

DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — Turning what seemed like a science fiction tale into reality, an unmanned probe swung alongside a comet on Wednesday after a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has checked out, and the American people have noticed. Three-quarters of Americans doubt the federal government will addres...