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BUENOS AIRES (AP): Argentine riot police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters outside the country’s Congress on Wednesday, escalating tensions before lawmakers were to vote on state overhaul and tax bills proposed by President...

PARIS (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to call snap parliamentary elections after his party’s crushing defeat in the European parliamentary vote, insisting on Wednesday that voters will ultimately choose the “progressive...

DUBAI (AP): A fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait early Wednesday, killing at least 40 Indian nationals and injuring more than 50, India’s external affairs ministry said. Local officials said the blaze appeared to be...

AP: People in 34 countries around the world have more confidence in President Joe Biden than his challenger in November’s election, former President Donald Trump, even as there is increased scepticism that United States democracy provides a good...

GENEVA (AP): The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million as war drives about a quarter of the population from their homes, the UN migration agency told The Associated Press on Monday. More than two million...

SEOUL (AP): South Korea on Sunday resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas, in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks. The move is...

PARIS (AP): As athletes rev up their training and organisers finalise everything from ceremonies to podiums before the Paris Olympics, more than 120 faith leaders are preparing for a different challenge — spiritually supporting some 10,000...

ROME (AP): The global total volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that is harvested from farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday. The UN’...