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LONDON (AP) — Britain will be China's "partner of choice" in the West, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Wednesday, as China demonstrated its comm...

LONDON (AP) — The latest news on the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Britain. All times local. 5:15 p.m. Police have dragg...

LONDON (AP) — China's leader quoted Chinese proverbs and William Shakespeare while Britain's prime minister hailed a "golden age" between the two nati...

LONDON (AP) — The latest news of the first full day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Britain. All times local: 6:15 p.m. Dissident Chi...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A 19-year-old Indiana University student accused of trying to remove a Muslim woman's headscarf and shouting racial slurs say...

LONDON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to begin a four-day state visit to Britain on Monday as part of a push to increase trade ties betwee...

TRNOVEC, Croatia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All ti...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt granted government workers a half-day off on Monday in an attempt to boost low turnout in the first legislative elections since a c...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Eritrean migrant shot by an Israeli security guard and then attacked by bystanders who mistook him for an assailant in a deadly bu...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli...

DALLAS (AP) — The recent arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a possible bomb led to widespread ridicule of...

OPATOVAC, Croatia (AP) — Tension was building among thousands of migrants as they remained stranded in fog and cold weather in the Balkans on Sunday i...

OPATOVAC, Croatia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All t...

GENEVA (AP) — A nationalist party riding fears about mass migration to Europe appeared set Sunday to become the big winner in Swiss legislative electi...

NEW YORK (AP) — To many in New York City, the rats are winning. The city's complaint hotline is on pace for a record year of rat calls, exceeding the ...

CAIRO (AP) — A mix of voters' apathy and frustration characterized elections held Sunday for Egypt's first legislature in more than three years, a cha...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local). ___ 9:45 p.m. Israeli police say an attack at a ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — For Mahmoud Karaz, there is no going back to Syria. But he feels welcome in the United States, surrounded by familiar food and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Police Department is turning to a new tool in its effort to teach its future officers about tolerance and understand...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Beards without moustaches, the trademark of ultraconservative Islamists, were all the rage at this campaign rally, among both...