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September 08, 2017

Court orders S. Korea to compensate former salt farm slave

The South Korean government must pay 37 million won ($33,000) to a man who was enslaved on a salt farm for several years and ...

September 08, 2017

New fires in empty Rohingya village challenge Myanmar claims

Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped ...

September 08, 2017

Israel strikes deep in Syria, said to hit military facility

Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria Thursday, killing two soldiers, ...

September 08, 2017

10 Things to Know for Friday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. STORM LEAVES PATH ...

September 08, 2017

Report: Suspect in 1975 sisters' slaying to plead guilty

A convicted sex offender accused in the 1975 murders of two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall is ...

September 07, 2017

Trump tweet unlikely to calm anxious immigrants

President Donald Trump sought to assure hundreds of thousands of immigrants protected from deportation under an Obama-era ...

September 07, 2017

300 Burundian refugees willingly return home from Tanzania

The U.N. refugee agency has started repatriating hundreds of Burundian refugees back home from neighboring Tanzania.

September 07, 2017

Guinness records include long-tailed cat, old bodybuilder

A long-tailed cat, an octogenarian bodybuilder and a 5-inch-long eyelash are included in the latest edition of Guinness World ...

September 07, 2017

Red Cross chief spurned in attempt to visit captive Israelis

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross says Hamas would not allow him access to two Israeli civilians ...

September 07, 2017

Pentagon: Trump order to end DACA raises issues for military

The Pentagon says the military could be affected by the president's decision to end the Obama-era program that protects young ...

September 07, 2017

Trump tweets reassurance about DACA at Pelosi's urging

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged President Donald Trump Thursday to tweet reassurances to the immigrants who benefit ...

September 07, 2017

The Latest: Fellow Nobel winner urges Suu Kyi to speak out

The Latest on violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state and the flood of ethnic Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh (all times ...

September 07, 2017

Palestinian court extends activist's detention by 4 days

A Palestinian court has extended the detention of a prominent activist who criticized the autonomy government of President ...

September 07, 2017

Australian court dismisses challenge to gay marriage survey

Australia's highest court cleared the way Thursday for the government to conduct a public survey on whether gay marriage ...

September 07, 2017

Teen takes credit for red 'It' balloons tied to sewer grates

A girl says she and her friends are behind the red balloons found tied to sewer grates in a small Pennsylvania town, not a ...

September 07, 2017

The Latest: Aid enters Syrian town after IS siege breached

The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Syria's state-run news agency says a convoy of 40 trucks ...

September 07, 2017

Israel PM bars Al-Jazeera journalist from free press seminar

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally intervened to bar an Al-Jazeera journalist from a government ...

September 07, 2017

Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts

An Indian court has sentenced two men to death and another two to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 in ...

September 07, 2017

Tough path for GOP on immigration _ and Trump made it harder

On immigration, there were few easy answers for the Republican Party's most vulnerable members. And President Donald Trump ...