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September 25, 2017

Japan's Abe says he will call snap election for parliament

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Monday he will call a snap election for parliament's more powerful lower house ...

September 25, 2017

Iraqi Kurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad

Iraqi Kurds were casting ballots on Monday in Iraq's Kurdish region and disputed territories on whether to support ...

September 25, 2017

Japan's baby panda now has a name: Xiang Xiang, or fragrance

Japan's baby panda now has a name: Xiang Xiang, or fragrance. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Monday that the 3-month-old ...

September 25, 2017

Myanmar police: Insurgents killed 28 Hindu women and boys

Myanmar police said Monday that they have discovered at least 28 slain Hindu women and boys in two mass graves in the ...

September 25, 2017

The Latest: Merkel's bloc comes 1st in German election

The latest on Germany's national election (all times local): 3:55 a.m. Election officials confirm Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...

September 25, 2017

Attack in north Mali kills 3 peacekeepers

Three U.N. peacekeepers were killed and five others wounded in Mail during an attack on a convoy, the United Nations mission ...

September 24, 2017

Airstrikes hit Syria's Aleppo despite ceasefire

Airstrikes have targeted rural Aleppo in northern Syria Sunday for the first time in months since a cease-fire took hold in ...

September 24, 2017

Baghdad orders Kurdistan region to hand over borders, ports

Iraq's central government in Baghdad ordered the country's Kurdish region to hand over all border crossings and airports to ...

September 24, 2017

Iran strikes IS bases on Syria-Iraq border with drones

Iran's state TV is reporting that the country's elite Revolutionary Guard has targeted bases belonging to the Islamic State ...

September 24, 2017

Former Rwandan presidential aspirant Rwigara is arrested

Rwandan police have arrested Diane Rwigara, a leading critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a women's rights activist, ...

September 24, 2017

Witnesses: Many Rohingya still trying to flee Myanmar

The massive exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar to escape brutal persecution appears to have slowed down, but several ...

September 24, 2017

Iran displays S-300 air defense missile system to public

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has displayed the country's sophisticated Russian-made S-300 air defense system in central ...

September 24, 2017

Iranian Guard drills near Iraq ahead of Kurdish referendum

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard launched a military exercise Sunday in its northwestern Kurdish region just ahead of ...

September 24, 2017

Weiner faces sentencing in latest chapter of sexting drama

It seemed as if Anthony Weiner had hit rock bottom when he resigned from Congress in 2011. "Bye-bye, pervert!" one heckler ...

September 24, 2017

South Korea says natural North Korea earthquake detected

South Korea's weather agency said a magnitude 3.2 earthquake was detected in North Korea on Saturday close to where the ...

September 24, 2017

Graveyard plaque of Wild West figure was buried, not stolen

It turns out the graveyard plaque of the common-law wife of legendary gunfighter John Henry "Doc" Holiday was just six inches ...

September 24, 2017

10 photos from Bangladesh camps, 10 stories of desperation

More than 400,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims have poured into Bangladesh since the latest wave of violence exploded in their ...

September 24, 2017

AP Top Stories 23 P

Here are the top stories for Saturday, Sept. 23rd: Tensions rise between the U.S. and North Korea; Humanitarian crisis grows ...

September 23, 2017

New Quake, Magnitude 6.1, Shakes Jittery Mexico

A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, causing new alarm in the country. At the site of an office building that ...