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Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line

PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after h...

Sep 19, 2019

Authorities: Separate attacks in Afghanistan kill 48

KABUL - Separate attacks by suicide bombers - one targeting President Ashraf Ghani's election rally and a second that ripped through the centre of the Afghan capital - killed at least 48 people and wo...

Sep 19, 2019

Trump strains to balance diplomacy, military threat to Iran

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration tried to balance diplomacy with fresh talk of military action Tuesday in response to the fiery missile and drone attack on the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industr...

Sep 18, 2019

UAE joins US-led coalition to protect Mideast waterways

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates says it has joined a U.S.-led coalition to protect waterways across the Mideast after an attack on Saudi oil installations. The state-run WAM new...

Sep 18, 2019

Suicide bomb in southern Afghanistan, kills at least 20

KABUL - An Afghan official says a powerful suicide truck bombing outside a hospital in the capital of southern Zabul province has killed at least 20 and injured as many as 90 others. The head of the Z...

Sep 18, 2019

Netanyahu, rightist allies appear to fall short of majority

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his natural religious and nationalist allies in national elections Tuesday, partial results i...

Sep 18, 2019

Court hearing on Britney Spears' life, finances closed

LOS ANGELES - A hearing Wednesday on the future of the court conservatorship that for 11 years has controlled the money and affairs of Britney Spears was closed to the public and media. Los Angeles Su...

Sep 18, 2019

California adds wage, benefit protections for gig workers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's governor on Wednesday signed sweeping labour legislation that aims to give wage and benefit protections to rideshare drivers at companies such as Uber and Lyft and to...

Sep 18, 2019

AP source: Joe Kennedy to challenge Sen. Markey in primary

BOSTON - U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III is set to announce a Democratic primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts in 2020. A person with knowledge of Kennedy's plans told The Associated...

Sep 18, 2019

Cuomo signs bill extending statute of limitations for rape

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Wednesday to make it easier to prosecute some sex crimes by extending the statute of limitations for second- and third-degree rape. The Democratic governo...

Sep 18, 2019