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Eurogroup finance chiefs are engaged in a high-wire political balancing act prompted by conflicting economic forces: a weaker growth outlook and stronger inflation....

The U.S. Senate's only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he's best-positioned to rebut....

The Taliban are promising to try to open all schools for girls across Afghanistan after the Afghan New Year, which starts in late March....

A senior European Central Bank official says that raising interest rates prematurely could "choke off the recovery," comments that come as inflation in the 19-nation euro area has hit a record rate....

An Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, "My Uncle Napoleon," lampooned Persian culture's self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, has died....

U.S. Rep. John Katko, who was one of just 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, has announced that he will not seek reelection this year....

A former Afghan combat interpreter who fought alongside American troops in his native Afghanistan and his family have found a new home in Jacksonville Beach. And Save our Allies, an Afghan rescue organization that helps people resettle, wants to help the ...

The Russian government has decided to delay a controversial bill requiring QR codes confirming vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 to access public places, despite surging cases and warnings from top officials about the highly infectious omicron variant...

More than 150 former Environmental Protection Agency employees are writing to the Virginia Senate, asking the Democrat-controlled chamber to oppose the nomination of former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler to GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin's cabinet....

Hong Kong International Airport says it will ban passengers from over 150 countries and territories from transiting in the city for a month, as it seeks to stem the transmission of the highly contagious omicron variant....

Senate Democrats have defeated a bill by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would have slammed sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline to Germany....

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's refusal to provide information to a committee investigating the Capitol riot is deepening a standoff between the committee and GOP lawmakers....

United Nations World Food Program senior official Mary-Ellen McGroarty is warning that Afghanistan is facing a "tsunami...

Top negotiators from Britain and the European Union are meeting in hopes of resolving their a thorny dispute over Northern Ireland trade....

The Russian Defense Ministry says troops of a Russia-led security alliance are preparing to pull out of Kazakhstan....

India and Britain are formally launching talks to pursue a free trade deal that is expected to boost their trade by billions, making it one of the most ambitious negotiations to take place after Brexit....

The Ohio Supreme Court has declared as invalid newly drawn legislative maps that would have retained Republican supermajorities in both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate....

The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, shifting their investigation to a top ally of former President Donald Trump in Congress....

The head of the International Energy Agency has blamed Russia for worsening Europe's natural gas crisis....

Former Sen. Harry Reid will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol as colleagues and friends pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who served five terms in the Senate....

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will fill Florida's vacant U.S. House seat....

The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to two Republican strategists and a Trump administration official regarding their involvement in the planning and preparation of one of the rallies that preceded the deadly a...

Russian officials are sounding the alarm about a looming surge of coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious omicron variant....

The White House has announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan....

The president of Kazakhstan has announced that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the country in two days after completing its mission....

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans are intensifying a personal late-stage push to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate....

South Korea and Japan say North Korea has fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the North's eastern sea....

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of former President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress, has rejected a request for an interview by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection....

As Kazakhstan struggles to cope with an increasingly violent uprising this week, it has turned for help to a Russian-led security bloc, the Collective Security Treaty Organization....

Hong Kong authorities have ordered about 170 people, including several officials, to be quarantined at a government facility after they attended a birthday party where two guests later tested positive for the coronavirus....

Consumer prices in the 19 countries that use the euro currency have soared at a record rate, led by a surge in food and energy costs....

North Korea says it will skip next month's Beijing Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic and "hostile forces' moves....

A senior Army three-star general with extensive experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been nominated to become the top U.S. commander for the Middle East....

Germany has found itself facing a series of challenges in its relations with Russia and China since taking office last month that are testing the new government's foreign policy mettle....

North Korea said Thursday it has successfully launched a hypersonic missile as part of efforts to modernize its strategic weapons systems, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties....

Thousands of passengers are being held on a cruise ship in Hong Kong for coronavirus testing after health authorities said nine passengers were linked to a recent omicron cluster and ordered the ship to turn back....

The South Korean and Japanese militaries say North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, the first such launch in about two months and a signal that Pyongyang isn't interested in rejoining denuclearization talks anytime soon and ...

U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence says she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking reelection in 2022....

Republican Larry Elder is bypassing a possible rematch with California Gov. Gavin Newsom this year to raise money for House and Senate candidates....

A federal judge has rejected U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's attempts to dismiss charges accusing the Nebraska Republican of making false statements to FBI agents who were investigating an illegal foreign donation to his campaign....

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote on filibuster rules changes to advance stalled voting rights legislation....

Hong Kong has welcomed a new batch of pro-Beijing lawmakers in its Legislative Council who were chosen in an election held without opposition candidates....

The late former Senate majority leader from Nevada, Harry Reid, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week....

A Hong Kong online news site says it would cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democracy news outlet....

New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday....

This New Year's the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the euro's notes and coins....

Russian authorities have designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk group, a satirist and an art collector as "foreign agents" as part of efforts to stifle dissent....

Afghanistan's former president says he had just minutes to decide to flee in the hours before the Taliban took control of the capital in August....

Iranian state television says Tehran has launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, though it's unclear if any object entered orbit around the Earth....

Hong Kong police have formally charged two people from an online pro-democracy news outlet with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its office and seven arrests....