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Spanish ex-monarch Juan Carlos I retires from public life

MADRID - Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, says he wants to completely retire from public life on June 2, five years after abdicating the throne. The king emeritus said in a letter published Mond...

May 27, 2019

'Aladdin' soars, but 'Booksmart' barely passes at box office

LOS ANGELES - Moviegoers voted with their dollars and chose the familiar over the new this Memorial Day weekend. The Walt Disney Co.'s live-action remake of "Aladdin" crushed the competition at the bo...

May 27, 2019

Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft

BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian court has sentenced the country's most powerful politician to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. Monday's sentencing of Social Democratic Pa...

May 27, 2019

UK Brexit Party scores big as Conservatives, Labour falter

LONDON - Veteran euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Britain should get set to leave the European Union without a divorce deal, after an election across the bloc saw his Brexit Party and pro-EU forces carve...

May 27, 2019

Trump breaks with Abe, says not bothered by NK missile tests

TOKYO - President Donald Trump said Monday he is not "personally" bothered by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...

May 27, 2019

Officials: Taliban attacks kill 10 Afghan troops, 4 police

KABUL - A roadside bombing claimed by the Taliban killed 10 Afghan soldiers in the country's west while insurgent attacks on security checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed four policemen, local o...

May 27, 2019

Green wave: Europe wakes up to climate concerns after vote

BERLIN - Green parties in Germany, France, Britain and elsewhere were celebrating big gains in elections for the bloc's 751-seat European Parliament amid growing voter concerns over climate change, ex...

May 27, 2019

Baghdad court sentences another French IS member to death

BAGHDAD - A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced another former French fighter with the Islamic State group to death - the fourth Frenchman to get the capital punishment so far in Iraq - and postponed th...

May 27, 2019

North Korea calls Bolton 'war monger' over missile comment

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a v...

May 27, 2019

Police hunt suspect after explosion in French city of Lyon

LYON, France - French police on Saturday hunted a suspect believed to have deposited a paper bag containing a device that exploded Friday, wounding 13 people on a busy pedestrian street in the city of...

May 27, 2019