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The U.S. stock market ended a miserable year on a positive note but still closed out 2018 with its worst showing in a decade. After setting a series of records through the late summer and early fall, major U.S. indexes fell

Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, went to work feeling he had a “mountain” on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland,

Voting was underway Sunday in parliamentary elections in Bangladesh that are seen as a referendum on what critics call Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian rule, amid complaints from both ruling party and opposition activists of attacks on supporters and candidates.

Voting in Democratic Republic of Congo’s long-anticipated presidential election got off to a rocky start on Sunday due to torrential rain in the capital, long delays at some polling stations and broken-down machines. Three opposition strongholds will see no casting of

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday calling for more peace talks between the leaders in the new year following their active engagement in 2018, South Korea’s presidential office said. Moon’s

Dutch and German police on Saturday arrested five people suspected of preparing a terrorist act in the Netherlands. Dutch police said in a statement that four suspects were detained in Rotterdam and officers searched multiple locations. The statement said the investigation

A total of 118 irregular migrants were held across Turkey, according to security sources on Saturday. In Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province, the security forces held seven irregular migrants after stopping a suspicious vehicle in the Havsa district. In another operation in

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Friday in an area near the Giza Pyramids, killing two Vietnamese tourists and wounding 12 others, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. It said the bus was traveling in the Marioutiyah area