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Improving world economy still needs help from low rates

Sunday, 15 October 2017, 07:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The world economy is the healthiest it's been in years but could still use a little help from low-interest rates and higher government spending from countries that can afford it, the International...

Huge blast rocks Somalia's capital; police say 20 killed

Saturday, 14 October 2017, 17:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A huge explosion from a truck bomb killed 20 people in Somalia's capital, police said Saturday, as shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they'd heard in years. The explosion appeared...

Catalan separatist urges unity as pressure builds in Spain

Saturday, 14 October 2017, 12:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

One of Catalonia's top separatist leaders pushing for a break from Spain has called for unity as disputes over strategy threaten to split the secessionists. Oriol Junqueras, Catalonia's regional...

UK finance chief backtracks after inflammatory Brexit comments

Saturday, 14 October 2017, 07:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Britain's finance chief quickly backed away from comments that risked inflaming the Brexit talks Friday, saying he regretted describing the European Union as "the enemy" during an earlier television...

Catalan leader urged to definitively declare independence

Friday, 13 October 2017, 12:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Pressure is mounting from within the Catalan separatist movement on Friday for the regional president to declare independence from Spain once and for all, a move that could prompt the central...

Kidnapped, held 5 years, US-Canadian family free in Pakistan

Friday, 13 October 2017, 07:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Five years after they were seized by a terrorist network in the mountains of Afghanistan, an American woman, her Canadian husband and their children — all three born in captivity — are...

US, Israel to exit UNESCO over its alleged anti-Israel bias

Friday, 13 October 2017, 07:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The United States announced Thursday it is pulling out of the U.N.'s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias and a need for "fundamental...

Six things to know about mass shootings in America

Thursday, 12 October 2017, 14:17 Last update: about 10 years ago The Conversation

America has experienced yet another mass shooting, this time at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is reportedly the deadliest mass shooting in U.S....

EU says little progress made in Brexit talks with Britain

Thursday, 12 October 2017, 14:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Brexit talks have made little progress, the European Union's negotiator said Thursday, meaning he cannot yet recommend broadening the negotiations beyond the focus on the terms of Britain's exit to...

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