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ANKARA (AP):Turkey has deported more than 3,300 foreigners suspected of links to jihadi groups, particularly Islamic State militants, and another 41,000 foreigners have been barred from entering the country as part of its fight against the militant...

CAIRO (AP):Police fired tear gas and birdshot yesterday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down over his government's decision to surrender control over two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi...

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):UK politicians who want Britain to leave the European Union are fighting back after President Barack Obama sided with those who want the country to stay in the 28-nation bloc.Justice Secretary Michael Gove led the charge...

JERUSALEM, (AP):Israel's attorney general has banned a Jewish women's prayer group from holding a special service at a key Jerusalem holy site.The group, Women of the Wall, calls for gender equality at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews...

MEXICO CITY (AP):An explosion killed 13 people and injured scores at a petrochemical plant on Mexico's southern Gulf coast, forcing evacuations as a fire billowed a huge toxin-filled cloud into the air.The head of Mexico's civil defence agency, Luis...

NEBRASKA (AP):Nebraska will allow thousands of immigrants brought to the US illegally as children to work in at least 170 professions that require state licences, including health care and education after lawmakers overrode conservative Republican...

BANGUI (AP):The peacekeepers motioned to the teenage girl weaving through the sprawling camp in the baking afternoon sun selling bananas from a plate atop her head. Soon their real intentions were clear: They yanked her inside their tent and began...

PORTOVIEJO (AP):Despite the grief roiling this earthquake-stricken town, Pablo Cordova has something to be thankful for: He can return the coffin his wife had obtained for his funeral.The 51-year-old hotel administrator was one of a trickle of...

DUBAI (AP):A billionaire businessman from the United Arab Emirates launched the Arab world's largest education fund yesterday, setting aside $1.14 billion (4.2 billion dirhams) in grants for underserved youth from the region.The Abdulla al-Ghurair...