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Pope demands tech companies prevent kids from viewing porn

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is demanding that Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech companies urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and to prevent children from accessing pornograp...

Nov 14, 2019

Turkey to deport IS suspect stuck at Greek border to US

ANKARA, Turkey - A U.S. national and suspected Islamic State group member, who has spent three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him, will be repatriated t...

Nov 14, 2019

Powerful hard-liner: Iran should stop honouring nuclear deal

TEHRAN, Iran - A member of Iran's powerful Guardian Council says the Islamic Republic should stop honouring all terms of the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers amid tensions with the U.S. ...

Nov 14, 2019

2 dead, 3 injured in a school shooting in Russia

MOSCOW - A student killed a fellow student and wounded three more in a shooting Thursday at a college in Russia before taking his own life, police said. Russia's state Investigative Committee said the...

Nov 14, 2019

German economy grows slightly in 3Q, staving off recession

BERLIN - Germany's gross domestic product returned to modest growth in the third quarter, the Federal Statistical Office reported Thursday, staving off a widely-feared recession in Europe's largest ec...

Nov 14, 2019

Afghan president: 3 Taliban released for held US, Australian

KABUL - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday announced that his government has released three prominent Taliban figures in an effort to get the insurgents to free two university professors - an Am...

Nov 13, 2019

Trains collide in Bangladesh, killing at least 16

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and injuring scores, officials said. Local police chief Shayamal Kanti Das said the collision took ...

Nov 13, 2019

Islamic Jihad says cease-fire reached to fighting in Gaza

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - The Islamic Jihad militant group says a cease-fire has been reached to end two days of heavy fighting with Israel. Spokesman Musab al-Berim says the Egyptian-brokered dea...

Nov 13, 2019

Israel targets Islamic Jihad leader, sending message to Iran

JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday targeted two senior commanders from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, killing one in the Gaza Strip and missing the second in Syria as it stepped up its battl...

Nov 13, 2019

AP sources: Deval Patrick mulling Democratic White House run

WASHINGTON - Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is considering making a late run for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to two people with knowledge of his deliberations, underscor...

Nov 13, 2019