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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has announced a mandatory official holiday due to a heat wave. Wednesday’s late night statement calling for a Thursday holiday came from the Iraqi Cabinet as tempe...

CANBERRA, Australia - Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge Thursday to the government’s unusual plan to canvass Australians’ opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired jud...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s foreign minister resigned on Thursday after being accused ofpossessing a luxury apartment paid for by a businessman investigated for shady treasury bond transact...

WASHINGTON - More Americans applied for jobless aid last week. Despite the small increase, the number of people seeking benefits remained close to historic lows. THE NUMBERS: Weekly unemployment appli...

BOISE, Idaho - A group that represents farmers is calling the costs of saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest unsustainable and is turning to the Trump administra...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Thursday sentenced a political analyst to 18 months in prison on the basis of a criminal complaint by Prime Minister Hun Sen that he had defamed him in a ...

WASHINGTON - Prices at the wholesale level dipped slightly in July, the first decline in 11 months and further evidence that inflation remains a no-show in the economy. The Labor Department says its p...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his cabinet often avoid talking about the science of climate change, but when pressed what they have said clashes with established mainstream science, data and ...

SALT LAKE CITY - An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people’s free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politi...

The Town of Blackfalds continues its trend of above-average growth and is one of Canada's fastest growing municipalities for the ninth year in a row. The results of the 2017 Municipal Census shows the...