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BRUSSELS - The democratic opposition and political prisoners in Venezuela on Thursday won the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for human rights. The European Parliament said that it wanted to rew...

BARCELONA, Spain - In one of the most momentous days in recent Spanish history, Spain fired Catalonia’s regional government and dissolved its parliament Friday after a defiant Catalan declaratio...

MANILA, Philippines - Washington remains fully committed to Asia though President Donald Trump will miss a key East Asian summit when he visits the Philippines next month, the U.S. ambassador in Manil...

BANGKOK - With solemn faces and outright tears, Thais said farewell to their king and father figure with elaborate funeral ceremonies that cap a year of mourning and are steeped in centuries of tradit...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani judge issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, after he failed to appear in court in the capital, Islamabad, to face corruption charges. The...

NEW ORLEANS - The godfather of rock and roll. A performer who always gave all he had. A man who loved his city and his neighbourhood. Tributes to Fats Domino are accumulating, in words and in bouquets...

New York residents and visitors anticipating the Friday release of the second season of Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things” can now get a hotel package for their binge-watching need...

HONOLULU - A police major was selected Wednesday as the first woman to be chief of the Honolulu Police Department - an agency that has been rocked by a federal corruption investigation. The police com...

DALLAS - The owner of a now-closed orphanage in India where a young girl was living before a Texas couple adopted her last year says the child had no difficulty eating despite her adoptive father̵...

WASHINGTON - A television actress has accused former President George H.W. Bush of touching her from behind while she was posing for a photo alongside him and telling her a dirty joke. The former pres...