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The Czech Republic’s central bank has raised its key interest rate for the third time since June, by a quarter

Authorities say an armed man in Florida was fatally shot during a confrontation with police officers. A spokesman for the

Amazon continues to expand delivery from its Whole Foods grocery stores, announcing new service in 10 cities while broadening delivery

Health department officials in the nation’s capital say a case of Legionnaire’s disease has been confirmed at a senior living

A Jewish student group says it will protest the far-right Alternative for Germany’s plans to found a Jewish section within

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman says the German leader has no intention of calling a confidence vote after her party ousted

Germany is favored to beat Turkey in Thursday’s 2024 European Championship vote after four years as front-runner in a campaign

London’s Metropolitan Police force is changing its no-tattoo policy for new recruits. The change announced Wednesday means people with visible

The lower house of the Russian parliament has given its preliminary approval for a controversial bill that raises the eligibility

Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen, convicted of torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall last year, apologized to his victim’s

A Georgia school board has voted to give $18,000 to a former superintendent accused of using racist language and discriminating

Three women in Illinois government studying sexual harassment and gender equity say a solution would be to elect women to

A new report estimates that South Sudan’s civil war has caused nearly 400,000 “excess deaths” since fighting erupted in late

An Israeli man found with a fake bomb at a New Jersey airport earlier this month won’t face criminal prosecution.

Gov. Bill Walker has declared an emergency for Alaska Native languages, aiming to promote and preserve all 20 recognized indigenous

The Maldives’ opposition alliance says President Yameen Abdul Gayoom is working on ways to remain in power despite having conceded

The Greek government is owed so much in tax arrears from households and companies that it could pay off more

Authorities arrested two people after nearly 60 pounds (27 kilograms) of marijuana was found in their vehicle after a traffic

Egypt’s Coptic church says prosecutors are investigating the death of a monk who had until recently served in a monastery

A newly released analysis says a federal Great Lakes cleanup program is good for the region’s economy. The study says

Chicago is receiving more than $12.5 million in federal grants for improvements at Midway International Airport. Sens. Dick Durbin and

Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed legislation that would permit experts to study the impact of supplemental feeding of wild deer.

No matter your age, what the Federal Reserve does to interest rates will most likely affect you. Economists say the

A court in Thailand has given a second life sentence to a drug kingpin from Laos whose social connections to

The Latest on the agreement between China and the Catholic Church on the appointment of bishops (all times local): 12:15

What do you hate shopping for? Toothpaste? Diaper rash cream? Sunscreen? The guys who founded Harry’s shaving club spend a

Even though electric vehicles account for just a fraction of overall car sales, they are slowly gaining favor with buyers,

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will rally his Labour Party by calling for a clampdown on unfettered capitalism, as he

Poland’s prime minister has received an on-camera lesson in the Polish language from his education minister after making a grammatical

Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) says more public pressure is needed to get state lawmakers around the country to

New Hampshire’s Republican-led Legislature rejected several gun control measures after the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip last fall

Danish police say they have arrested two people under Denmark’s anti-terror laws on suspicion of buying drones bound for the

For decades, Vermont, a largely rural state with a long history of gun ownership and a low crime rate, has

An investigation found that a police chief in North Carolina had rental units holding images of nude women, narcotics and

West Virginia’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit alleging a contractor accepted payment for work without the required license and

The owner of the Atlanta gas station where police found drugs in the store’s cappuccino maker has received a 180-day

Belgium’s Royal Palace said that Queen Paola, the mother of King Philippe, is flying home from Italy for health reasons,

An inmate denies escaping a Tennessee prison and returning with contraband to sell on the prison’s black market. The Knoxville

A rare goat-antelope that escaped from a zoo in southwestern England two days ago has returned unharmed. Officials said Wednesday

Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a working group to

The U.N. aid agency says renewed fighting between rival militias in Libya’s capital has displaced 1,700 families in the past

John Nlom has five children and wants to keep them alive. When machete-wielding men attacked a nearby school this month

President Donald Trump will chair a United Nations Security Council meeting Wednesday where he is expected to denounce Iran. But

A Virginia state board tasked with developing plans for a cancer research and treatment center is set to convene for

Testimony resumes Tuesday in the retrial of a man accused of setting a woman on fire on a north Mississippi

The Latest on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting (all times local): 4:55 a.m. Financial markets are subdued as investors

A judge is approving a plan for a Mississippi city to annex part of an unincorporated community. WDAM-TV reports Jones

A Syrian official says Israel should think carefully before attacking Syria again once it obtains the sophisticated S-300 defense system

Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained at least 39 people, including military officers, over their suspected links to

The Federal Reserve is set Wednesday to raise interest rates for a third time this year and possibly modify the