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BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes in an attempt to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said....
SHURA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi forces pushed into a town south of Mosul on Saturday after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields, as state-sanctioned Shiite militias joined the offensive by opening up a new front to the west....
(Vatican Radio) Canada and the European Union will sign a landmark free trade deal Sunday after a series of key votes in Belgian regional assemblies ended opposition that had threatened to destroy the entire agreement.Listen to Stefan Bos’ report:
(Vatican Radio) A general strike called by the opposition coalition in Venezuela, has only been partially successful.Listen to James Blears’ report: The opposition demanded for a nationwide strike, but many of the poorer districts of Caracas, and fanning out nationwide, could not afford the luxury of withdrawing their labor for a full day. President Nicolas Maduro has urged many shops, schools banks and the petroleum industry, to simply ignored the strike. He is threatening to seize striking businesses and jail yet more political opponents. He is also warning that if they demand a supposed political trail, which is not part of the Constitution, the State Prosecutor must apply legislation and jail anyone who violates the Constitution.Officials have promised to increase the minimum wage by 40 percent, trying to hold back the disintegrating economic sluice gates, and with it a deluge. But in reality it`s a saturated milksop, as...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rich Buhrke has been chasing down baseballs outside Wrigley Field since 1959. He used to tell the rest of us ballhawks when we left for jobs far from Chicago that one day we'd find our way back to the corner of Waveland and Kenmore....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Pilots were forced to abort a takeoff and evacuate passengers from a burning American Airlines flight on a runway at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after the airliner experienced what a federal official said was a rare and serious type of engine failure....
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- It started with a photograph of a smirking, young man wearing a heavy-metal band T-shirt and selling tea on the streets of Kathmandu. It has become a wildly popular blog chronicling street life in the Himalayan nation of Nepal....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- State-sanctioned Shiite militias launched an assault on the Islamic State group west of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday but reiterated that they would not enter the Sunni majority city....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- A tense protest over the Dakota Access pipeline subsided at least temporarily after some protest leaders urged activists to leave a barricade near a state highway bridge....
