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Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa

Chile cardinal seeks to deflect criticism for pope's trip

The retired archbishop of Santiago is trying to deflect criticism for Pope Francis' troubled trip to Chile in January, ...

Missouri governor lauds plan for new aluminum smelter

A new aluminum smelter will open in the Missouri Bootheel region in May, replacing roughly half of the jobs lost when another ...

Let there be light, an hour longer into the evening sky

Time to set your clocks and watches one hour ahead. And maybe save some time to grouse about losing an hour's sleep Saturday ...

US stocks soar on strong jobs report; inflation fears ease

Wall Street got exactly what it wanted from Friday's jobs report: solid hiring, moderate wage growth and continued low ...

The Latest: Greitens lauds plan for aluminum smelter

The Latest on plans for a new aluminum smelter in southeast Missouri (all times local): 3:35 p.m. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens ...

Vote on Catalonia's new president canceled to await EU court

The speaker of Catalonia's assembly suspended Friday a vote to elect the northeast Spanish region's new president, and no new ...

Speedskaters go for Allround worlds on open-air oval

A week ago, Amsterdam residents and visiting tourists were walking and skating along frozen canals in the Dutch capital.

Sam Nunberg

Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg appears before grand jury

A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series ...

China floods Africa with needed dollars, stoking US concern

The new electrified rail line snakes through the African desert, charting a course from a port along the Djibouti coast to ...

Markets Right Now: Strong hiring sends stocks, yields up

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks and bond yields rose sharply on Wall Street ...

Turkey: 2 opposition journalists released until trial ends

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court in Istanbul has ordered two journalists for the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper ...

Suspect from 2015 Paris attacks speaks to judge for 1st time

The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 has agreed for the first time to ...

Kenya president and opposition leader agree to unify country

Kenya's president and opposition leader announced Friday they will work together to unite the country, which has been divided ...

Aid delivered to Syria's Ghouta amid renewed violence

An aid convoy crossed into the embattled rebel-held suburbs of Damascus Friday, delivering desperately needed aid despite ...

Trump pardons Navy man who shot illegal sub photos

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photographs of the classified areas of a military submarine.

Donald Trump, Wilbur Ross, Steven Mnuchin, Robert Lighthizer

The Latest: Trump talks tariffs with Australia's Turnbull

The Latest on U.S. trade policy (all times local): 6:20 p.m. President Donald Trump says he's discussed tariffs with Prime ...

UK military chemical experts aid police in spy poison probe

Dozens of khaki-clad troops trained in chemical warfare were deployed on the streets of the usually sleepy English city of ...

The Latest: Al-Qaida fighters in Syria want to go to Idlib

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 9 p.m. The largest rebel group in eastern suburbs of the capital ...

Kosovo deputy PM acquitted of war crime charges

Kosovo's deputy prime minister has been acquitted of charges that resulted from two slayings during the 1998-99 Kosovo War.

John Sulston, who decoded the human genome, dies at 75

John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75. The Wellcome ...