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Romania's president on Monday nominated centrist party leader Dacian Ciolos to be prime minister after a protracted political crisis culminated last week in the Liberalled coalition government being ousted in a noconfidence vote.

Ukraine's thirdlargest bank dismissed its chairman on Monday after a Kyiv court ordered him to be put under house arrest while police investigate a scuffle with journalists in his office.

Sao Paulo (AP) Brazil's president claimed that COVID-19 protocols at soccer matches had prevented him from attending a game...

A man described as a normal guy who kept a low profile in his rural Alaska community faces charges he threatened to hire an assassin to kill a U.S. senator.

The Netherlands is back in control of its World Cup qualifying group but hardly in convincing style.

President Joe Biden on Friday restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home...

A federal judge Friday extended an order that will prevent state officials from enforcing a law that prohibits school districts from implementing mask requirements until a federal lawsuit challenging the law can be heard.

A jury convicted a former Northwestern University professor of firstdegree murder on Thursday in the 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend.

A TV adaptation of the late Sue Grafton's millionselling Kinsey Millhone mystery novels, a prospect the author once swore she would return from the dead to prevent, is now the works.

It took some time, but the Las Vegas Raiders have finally become a bona fide threat on the defensive front since trading star linebacker Khalil Mack to the Chicago Bears just nine days before the start of the 2018 season.

Nicaraguan opposition groups said Thursday that next months presidential election is void and illegitimate because of President Daniel Ortegas arrests of critics and seven potential challengers.

A former U.S. special envoy to Haiti who blasted the Biden administration as he resigned last month over the deportations of hundreds of migrants told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that Washington must rethink its approach to the Caribbean nation.

The fatal shooting of an 18yearold woman by a Southern California school safety officer last month is being investigated as a possible homicide, police said Thursday.

Poland's highest court ruled on Thursday that parts of EU treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution, challenging a key tenet of European integration in a sharp escalation of a dispute between Brussels and Warsaw.

The Saudiled coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it intercepted an explosivesladen drone targeting Saudi Arabia's Abha international airport, Saudi state TV reported.

A county governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921, saying it suspected some prominent local officials allowed the killing to take place.