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U.K.'s May taking Brexit deal back to EU London -- British lawmakers have backed a plan for Prime Minister Theresa May to go back to Brussels to reopen negotiations with the European Union over the draft divorce deal her government…

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A photo posted to Twitter by former Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai, now chairman of the Kabul-based Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies, shows him (center right) attending negotiations between members of the Taliban, seated with him, and…

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More than a week into a standoff with the U.S.-backed opposition in his country, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused President Trump of ordering his assassination, maintaining his trademark fiery rhetoric at Washington while signaling for the first time a…

New Delhi, India: In this picture taken 02 May 2005, stray cows cross a traffic intersection in New Delhi. Getty New Dehli -- Authorities in India's most populous state have been ordered to bar code stray cows and use vacant…

A Dutch church's steadfast refusal to let a vulnerable immigrant family be deported has paid off. It took hundreds of volunteers to keep a marathon Mass going -- 24 hours a day, for 97 days -- but in the end…

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People stand on a bridge over the Paraopeba river, which was affected by mud, after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais,…

President Trump's disagreements with his own top intelligence officials came to a head Wednesday when the president — bristling at their conclusions on North Korea, Iran and the border that don't match with his own — suggested the "intelligence people"…

U.S. sanctions Venezuela's oil company The U.S. State Department raised its travel advisory for Venezuela to level 4 and warned that Americans have been arbitrarily detained "for long periods" in the politically unstable nation. "Do not travel to Venezuela due…

An estimated 30,000 Nigerians fled a town in their West African nation over the weekend in search of safety in neighboring Cameroon, according to the United Nations refugee agency. They fled the northeast border town of Rann amid mounting violence…

In the first major action by the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to fend off a leadership challenge, the country's Supreme Court on Tuesday barred opposition leader Juan Guaidó from leaving Venezuela and ordered a freeze on his financial…

Firefighters recover the body of a victim of Friday's dam collapse at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, Jan. 28, 2019. Getty Rio de Janeiro…

U.S. sanctions Venezuela's oil company Colombia's foreign minister says his government doesn't know why U.S. national security adviser John Bolton had "5,000 troops to Colombia" written on a notepad he held during a news conference announcing new Venezuela sanctions. In…

Geneva -- The U.N. human rights office has said security forces in Venezuela detained nearly 700 people in one day last week amid anti-government protests -- the highest such tally in a single day in the country in at least…

Aasia Bibi is presented to journalists at a police station in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, Oct. 30, 2017. AP Photo/Iram Asim Islamabad -- Pakistan's top court on Tuesday upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, clearing the…

British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers Questions, Jan. 23, 2019 in London, England. Getty London -- British Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have accepted that the divorce deal her government…

On board the Papal plane -- Pope Francis has warned that expectations for an upcoming landmark Vatican summit on clergy sexual abuse should be "deflated," as the problem of abuse is unlikely to be resolved through it. The pontiff's move…

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Monday the Taliban should "enter serious talks" with his government, as both the Taliban and Washington's top envoy touted significant progress during unprecedented negotiations in Qatar last week. A months-long diplomatic push…

Brumadinho, Brazil -- Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll…

Washington -- The Treasury Department announced Sunday it was lifting sanctions on three companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The move comes despite an effort in Congress to block the action with many lawmakers concerned that the Trump administration…

Havana, Cuba -- Cuba's president said Monday that a tornado had killed three people and injured 174 others in eastern Havana. The Cuban capital was battered late Sunday and early Monday by powerful winds and heavy rains. A blackout hit…