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President Donald Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve on Monday after administration officials spent the weekend trying to assure the public and financial markets that Jerome Powell’s job as Fed chairman was safe. “The only problem our economy has is

More than 75,000 well-wishers paid their respects to Emperor Akihito who turned 85 on Sunday, his last birthday celebration at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace before stepping down next year. The birthday of the emperor, whose position is ceremonial with no political power,

Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption Monday, state media reported, the latest conviction in a series of allegations which saw him ousted from power last year. Sharif, a three-time prime minister of Pakistan,

Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient villa in a Pompeii suburb. Pompeii archaeological park head Massimo Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA that the villa belonged to a high-ranking

The “overwhelming majority” of women and older girls who passed through Libya as migrants reported being gang-raped by traffickers or having witnessed others taken away to be sexually abused, the United Nations said Thursday in a report based on hundreds of

Violent anti-government protests broke out Thursday for the second consecutive day in a string of cities across much of Sudan, including the capital Khartoum where police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters and an eastern city where at least

Turkey will continue to stand by Iran in the face of ‘unjust’ U.S. sanctions which jeopardize regional stability and security, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. “There are so many

US. President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will will retire “with distinction” at the end of February, new chief to be named shortly. Trump previously referred to him as “sort of a Democrat.” Mattis, seen