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Powell urges Congressional panel to tackle budget deficits

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is asking Congress to tackle the growing budget deficit. Powell's remarks before the House Budget Committee Thursday came a day after he told Congre...

Nov 14, 2019

International court judges authorize Rohingya investigation

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges on Thursday approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. ...

Nov 14, 2019

Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA

WASHINGTON - Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigran...

Nov 14, 2019

Pope demands tech companies prevent kids from viewing porn

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is demanding that Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech companies urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and to prevent children from accessing pornograp...

Nov 14, 2019

Turkey to deport IS suspect stuck at Greek border to US

ANKARA, Turkey - A U.S. national and suspected Islamic State group member, who has spent three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him, will be repatriated t...

Nov 14, 2019

Powerful hard-liner: Iran should stop honouring nuclear deal

TEHRAN, Iran - A member of Iran's powerful Guardian Council says the Islamic Republic should stop honouring all terms of the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers amid tensions with the U.S. ...

Nov 14, 2019

2 dead, 3 injured in a school shooting in Russia

MOSCOW - A student killed a fellow student and wounded three more in a shooting Thursday at a college in Russia before taking his own life, police said. Russia's state Investigative Committee said the...

Nov 14, 2019

German economy grows slightly in 3Q, staving off recession

BERLIN - Germany's gross domestic product returned to modest growth in the third quarter, the Federal Statistical Office reported Thursday, staving off a widely-feared recession in Europe's largest ec...

Nov 14, 2019

Afghan president: 3 Taliban released for held US, Australian

KABUL - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday announced that his government has released three prominent Taliban figures in an effort to get the insurgents to free two university professors - an Am...

Nov 13, 2019

Trains collide in Bangladesh, killing at least 16

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and injuring scores, officials said. Local police chief Shayamal Kanti Das said the collision took ...

Nov 13, 2019