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Indonesia's Widodo tells AP he'll push economy, labour reform

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo says he is freed from political constraints in his final term and vows to push sweeping economic reforms. Widodo told The Associated Press on Fri...

Jul 26, 2019

Now British PM, brash Boris Johnson faces Brexit conundrum

LONDON - Boris Johnson took over as Britain's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to break the impasse that defeated his predecessor by leading the country out of the European Union and silencing those h...

Jul 26, 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 26, 2019

George Takei calls migrant treatment a 'grotesque low'

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - George Takei says U.S. migrant detention policies reached depths beyond what Japanese-Americans faced during their World War II internment. Takei, interned as a child, said his...

Jul 26, 2019

Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 83

HAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the former archbishop of Havana who helped organize the first papal visit to the communist country and negotiated modest openings with a government that...

Jul 26, 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 26, 2019

Mueller: No Russia exoneration for Trump, despite his claims

WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller, the taciturn lawman at the centre of a polarizing American drama, bluntly dismissed President Donald Trump's claims of "total exoneration" Wednesday in the federal probe o...

Jul 26, 2019

Judge temporarily blocks new Arkansas anti-abortion laws

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions in Arkansas minutes before they were set to take effect Wednesday, including a measure that opponents say would likely force...

Jul 26, 2019

Record Facebook fine won't end scrutiny of the company

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook survived its latest brush with U.S. privacy regulators, at the cost of a record $5 billion fine and other restrictions imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. But it's far fr...

Jul 26, 2019

Uganda's Bobi Wine formally declares his presidential bid

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine formally launched his presidential bid for the 2021 election on Wednesday, calling the country's longtime leader a dictator and urgin...

Jul 26, 2019