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US strikes Taliban forces, in first hit since peace deal

KABUL - The U.S. conducted Wednesday its first airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan since signing an ambitious peace deal with the militant group. U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett...

Mar 4, 2020

Syrian, Turkish armies engage in new deadly clashes in Idlib

ANKARA, Turkey - Two more Turkish soldiers were killed Wednesday in a Syrian government attack in Syria's northwest, the country's Defence Ministry said, as steady clashes between the two national arm...

Mar 4, 2020

Israel's re-do election returns it to political limbo, again

JERUSALEM - Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less than a year, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...

Mar 4, 2020

Japan opens part of last town off-limits since nuclear leaks

TOKYO - Japan's government on Wednesday opened part of the last town that had been off-limits due to radiation since the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago, in a symbolic move showing the regio...

Mar 4, 2020

States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change

CHICAGO - Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he's rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago boys' home and jail for burglary, ...

Mar 4, 2020

Bloomberg out, Biden resurgent after Super Tuesday victories

WASHINGTON - New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy, as the winnowing process in the De...

Mar 4, 2020

It's up again for stocks as Wall Street's wild ride extends

NEW YORK - Stocks jumped Wednesday morning and clawed back much of their sharp losses from the day before as Wall Street's wild, virus-fueled swings extend into a third week. Health care stocks led th...

Mar 4, 2020

Iran says 92 dead amid 2,922 cases of the new coronavirus

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a ne...

Mar 4, 2020

Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison

TEHRAN, Iran - A lawyer for Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, says he's been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence. Nasser Zarafshan told...

Mar 4, 2020

1 murder charge, 3 deaths loom over Durst as trial opens

LOS ANGELES - The last time Robert Durst was on trial for murder, he testified that he had dismembered his elderly neighbour's body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them in the Gulf of Mexico. He wa...

Mar 3, 2020