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Hong Kong’s No. 2 government official said Thursday that she was resigning to prepare for a leadership bid for the southern Chinese city’s top job. Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said she tend...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s prime minister said Thursday that an upcoming conference in Paris aimed at reviving peace talks with the Palestinians was “rigged” and that Israel was not bound ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli media are reporting that police questioned the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into allegations that he improperly accepted gifts from wealthy...

NEW DELHI - India’s foreign minister demanded an apology Wednesday from Amazon.com Inc. for selling doormats depicting the Indian flag on the online shopping giant’s Canadian website. Exte...

GREENVILLE, Miss. - An African-American man charged in burning of a black church that was also spray-painted with “Vote Trump” has been falsely accused, his attorney said Thursday. Andrew ...

PARIS - French authorities have filed the first charges against four suspects in the armed jewelry heist of Kim Kardashian West, with more charges expected to follow, the Paris prosecutors’ offi...

LONDON - Dozens of flights at London’s Heathrow Airport were cancelled Thursday amid forecasts of snow and strong winds in Britain. Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, said 80 out of about...

CINCINNATI - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say officers in Cincinnati intercepted more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine that was concealed inside a statue of a snail. Authorities say t...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Family members of the nine people Dylann Roof killed in a Charleston, South Carolina, church weren’t the only ones who suffered. Their church family grieved, too. Along with t...

BERLIN - Germany’s economy accelerated slightly last year to grow by 1.9 per cent, narrowly beating expectations thanks largely to household and government spending, official data showed Thursda...