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HELENA, Mont. - Montana’s worst fire season in years is expected to scorch the drought-stricken landscape well into fall, long after the state’s firefighting reserves run out thanks to pol...

BANGKOK - A Thai court acquitted two former prime ministers of abuse of power on Wednesday in a case involving the deadly dispersal of an anti-government protest in 2008. A division of the Supreme Cou...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil’s embattled president survived a key congressional vote that could have suspended him over a bribery charge, mustering enough support Wednesday night to stay in office ...

SRINAGAR, India - A fresh strike called by anti-India separatists to protest the killings of two top rebels and a civilian shut down disputed Kashmir Wednesday while a teenage boy died a day after he ...

MANILA, Philippines - Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will seek talks “as soon as possible” on a proposed nonaggression pact with China aimed at preventing clashes in the South China ...

BERLIN - Prosecutors in Germany say a bus driver’s inattentiveness led to a collision with a truck on a highway last month that killed 18 people. The bus carrying German seniors on vacation to I...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The U.S. Air Force successfully launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California, the fourth such test this year. The 30th Space Wing says the...

BERLIN - A 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder is fit to go to prison, German prosecutors said Wednesday. His lawyer said he will contest their de...

RED DEER- RCMP were called to investigate a suspicious package late Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 4:30 p.m., Mounties responded to a complaint about a package found in a vehicle at the Key Towin...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities said Wednesday that they seized 23 pieces of elephant tusks and 301 kilograms (664 pounds) of pangolin scales believed to have been smuggled from Africa ...