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President Donald Trump on Saturday lauded Syria's defeat of Islamic State (ISIS) forces in the city of Raqqa.
Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and “threatens the continuing survival of human societies,” according to a new study.
Chinese box office revenue is expected to grow more than three times the pace of last year, thanks to Hollywood-style blockbusters.
The new bill is the first indication that regulation on internet advertising giants could actually come to fruition.
Players have 19 seconds to tap the bottom of the screen as many times as possible to make a pair of animated hands clap frenziedly, the NYT reports.
Another day, another threat by North Korea to stage an "unimaginable" strike on the U.S.
As retirees approach their golden years, the reality of how much their mandatory pension will pay out starts to bite.
They want it to be "the world’s first neighborhood built from the internet up," the NYT reports.
Iran's top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would not walk out of a nuclear deal and welcomed backing given by its European signatories.
Qatar's finance minister says the blockade of countries isolating Qatar are bullying and disrespectful.
Talks to revise NAFTA will go into next year amid disagreements over how best to change the deal, top officials said.
President Trump risks alienating moderates in Iran with the power to help effect peaceful change, one analyst says.
A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.
Airbus SE said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in Bombardier Inc's C-Series passenger jet program.
The EU on Monday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and urged U.S. lawmakers not to reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
Trump received swift blowback in April for taking a call with Duterte, whose government is accused of extrajudicial killings.
Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in Lower Saxony on Sunday.
In Mogadishu, Somalia, 276 people have died from a powerful bomb blast on Saturday.
The U.S. will stay in an international nuclear deal with Iran, Nikki Haley says.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States cannot unilaterally revoke the country's international nuclear deal.
World Economy
Economists are now asking a radical question: what happens to the economy if AI starts generating original thought?
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said removal of stimulus is "working well."
America’s allies are shooting at each other. It could get much worse, Vox reports.
World Markets
U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday after the Senate took a step toward achieving tax reform.
European markets closed mixed on Friday afternoon, as investors reacted to corporate earnings and monitored political developments in the region.
Asian shares closed up on Friday even though stocks on Wall Street wobbled and European stocks stumbled overnight.
