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BERLIN (AP) -- The Latest on the attack at a supermarket in Hamburg (all times local):...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Rides at the Ohio State Fair's Kiddieland and some elsewhere in the amusement park reopened Friday with the OK of inspectors two days after the governor shut them all down following a thrill ride malfunction that killed a teen who had recently enlisted in the Marines....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy acquired an exclusive label Friday: Recession-free for eight full years. Yet the third-longest economic winning streak in American history still doesn't get much love....
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren't so addictive....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped down Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him removed from office over allegations of corruption, plunging the nuclear-armed nation into a political crisis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's surprise vote early Friday was only the latest narrow escape for "Obamacare" - the social program with nine lives that has survived dozens of congressional attempts to kill it, and two Supreme Court challenges....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than the first according to its wary neighbors, leading analysts to conclude that a wide swath of the U.S. including Los Angeles and Chicago is now within range of Pyongyang's weapons....
LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal and ethical battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump, died Friday. He was one week shy of his first birthday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The resounding Senate crash of the seven-year Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law incited GOP finger-pointing Friday but left the party with wounded leaders and no evident pathway forward on an issue that won't go away....
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday levelled a series of allegations against Pakistan, including enforced disappearances,, extrajudicial killings, the death penalty, blasphemy laws and cyber crackdown.Enforced disappearancesEnforced disappearances, seen in tribal areas and Baluchistan for the past 15 years, have become widespread across Pakistan, UNHRC member Olivier de Frouville told reporters. "This is an admitted fact even within the country that this is carried out by agents of the state," he said, adding that the government's own investigations were insufficient. A high number of people were allegedly in secret detention in military internment centres, the committee's report said. Killings were allegedly perpetrated by the police, military and security forces but there was no law explicitly against such practices. The Geneva-based UNHRC is a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Internation...