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UN office hails Myanmar journalists' release, with a caveat

GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office is praising the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison in Myanmar, but says a "very dire situation" remains for freedom of expression ...

May 07, 2019

Climate change missing as US defends Arctic policy

ROVANIEMI, Finland - The Arctic is melting, but don't ask U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to talk about climate change. Nor even to agree on a text that mentions it. For the Trump administration, ...

May 07, 2019

Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies

PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...

May 07, 2019

Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition

LONDON - Britain's Conservative government and opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Uni...

May 07, 2019

Police find body in Cyprus lake, tie rape to serial killings

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Police in Cyprus recovered a second suitcase containing human remains Sunday from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls ...

May 07, 2019

Israel steps up strikes as Gaza rocket attacks intensify

JERUSALEM - Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since ...

May 07, 2019

Pompeo meeting with Merkel cancelled over 'pressing issues'

BERLIN - The U.S. State Department says a planned meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chancellor Angela Merkel has been cancelled. Pompeo was due to meet Merkel and German Foreign ...

May 07, 2019

Pope urges migrant-skeptic Bulgarians to open hearts, homes

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Pope Francis urged Bulgarians on Sunday to open their hearts and homes to migrants, arguing that a country like Bulgaria, which is losing so much of its population to emigration, sho...

May 07, 2019

Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells troops to be alert

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ba...

May 07, 2019

Inside the Met Gala: Feathers, bling and ideas about 'camp'

NEW YORK - The cocktail bar was shutting down, and guests were being encouraged to commence the elegant trek to dinner through the majestic halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But Joan Collins ha...

May 07, 2019