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The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a Middle East studies conference held by the University of North Carolina and partially funded by federal grant money, after a legislator says reports of anti-Semitic rhetoric emerged
The social network unveiled an ambitious plan to create a new digital currency called Libra for global use, one that could drive more e-commerce on its services and boost ads
Move follows Iran's announcement it will not comply with the international agreement that keeps it from making nuclear weapons
An independent review of United Nations operations in the years before hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar’s military concluded that the organization’s many bodies failed to act together, resulting in “systemic and structural failures.”
The governor of Congo's northeast Ituri province says two weeks of intercommunal violence have killed more than 160 people in several villages while many others have fled
Many political leaders in the region are personally convinced that child marriage must stop but do not speak out against it for fear of losing votes, says Mabingue Ngom
Grounding of the Boeing 737 Max jets for technical problems has left Icelandair short of planes
China will halt imports from a Canadian company after food safety issues were detected in one batch of pork, the Xinhua state news agency reports
New report says world population could reach its peak of nearly 11 billion around the end of the century
Construction giant said in a statement that it and its subsidiaries would continue operating normally during the debt restructuring, which is one of the largest ever filed in Brazil
Those puppy dog eyes are hard to resist, and a new study suggests people may be partly to blame
Group representing the protesters — known as the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change — say night rallies will begin on Tuesday and marches on Thursday
A plan by Ecuador to let the US military use a Galapagos island for aircraft on anti-drug trafficking flights is drawing criticism
Sandra Torres is leading, followed by Alejandro Giammattei, who has emerged as the top vote-getter in the first round of Guatemala's presidential election
Ren Zhengfei likens his company to a badly damaged plane and says revenues will be $30 billion less than forecast over the next two years
A regional minister was giving a briefing that was live-streamed on social media last week when viewers noticed officials appeared as cats
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