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US presses WTO to stop lenient trade treatment of China

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pressed the World Trade Organization on Friday to stop letting China and other economies receive lenient treatment under global trade rules by calling themselves "d...

Jul 28, 2019

Woman set to replace Puerto Rico governor rejects job

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The woman who is supposed to replace Puerto Rico's embattled governor amid a political crisis says she doesn't want the job. Justice Secretary Wanda Vzquez said Sunday in a Twi...

Jul 28, 2019

Venezuelan Cruz-Diez, pioneer in kinetic art, dies in Paris

CARACAS, Venezuela - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist and a pioneering figure in the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris at age 95. Cruz-Diez's official website said Sunday the ...

Jul 28, 2019

AP Interview: Indonesia's Widodo to push unpopular reforms

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in an interview Friday that he will push ahead with sweeping and potentially unpopular economic reforms, including a more business-friendly l...

Jul 28, 2019

Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case

HELSINKI - Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, with prosecutors saying that the victim was punched ...

Jul 28, 2019

Cosby appeal to focus on other women's testimony, Quaaludes

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month say the accusations from other women are no coincidence, but "the culmination of a decade...

Jul 28, 2019

Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82

HAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist country and played a role in mediati...

Jul 28, 2019

World powers meet Iran in Vienna to salvage nuclear deal

VIENNA - Representatives from Europe, China and Russia, nations that are still committed to the Iran nuclear deal, were meeting Sunday with Iran's representative in Vienna to discuss how to salvage th...

Jul 28, 2019

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade

MOSCOW - A Russian group that monitors police arrests says nearly 1,400 people were detained in a police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, the largest number of detentions at a protest in ...

Jul 28, 2019

Taliban reject talk of direct negotiations with government

KABUL - An Afghan official said Sunday that the government would hold its first-ever direct talks with the Taliban within two weeks, but the insurgents quickly denied any such meeting was planned and ...

Jul 28, 2019