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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    EU Fights to Keep Nuclear Deal Alive Amid New Round of U.S.-Iran Tensions

    A year after the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement, the pact is at severe risk of collapse and the European...

    WATCH: Pray for Angela Merkel’s Health: Video Shows German Leader Shaking Uncontrollably at Ceremony...

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared unsteady and was visibly shaking Tuesday as she greeted the new Ukrainian leader in the hot sun in Berlin,...

    6.8-Magnitude Earthquake in Japan Sparks Tsunami Warnings

    A tsunami warning was in effect Tuesday night in Japan after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook a northwestern part of the country. The earthquake registered off...

    55-Year-Old New Jersey Man Becomes the Eighth American Tourist to Die in Mysterious Circumstances...

    An eighth American tourist has died in mysterious circumstances while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. The State Department confirmed that Joseph Allen, 55, (pictured...

    12 People Killed and Dozens More Injured After Indonesia Bus Crashes When Passenger Grabbed...

    Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger grabbed the steering wheel of a bus in West Java, Indonesia, causing it...

    Mohamed Morsi, Ousted First Democratically Elected President of Egypt, Dies Suddenly in Court

    Imprisoned former leader, 67, collapses and dies while on trial on espionage charges Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, has collapsed during a court...

    Triple Suicide Bombing Kills 30 People, Injures 39 Others in Nigeria

    Three suicide bombers, two girls and a boy, killed 30 people and injured 39 others when they detonated explosives in Nigeria's northeast, emergency response...

    In Historic Shift, Vatican to Consider Ordaining Married Priests and Allowing Female Ministers for...

    A Vatican document on Monday said the Church should consider ordaining older married men as priests in remote areas of the Amazon, a historic...
    FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag flutters in front the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

    U.S. Denounces Iran for ‘Nuclear Blackmail’ as Country Plans to Breach Uranium Limit Set...

    Iran announced on Monday it would soon breach limits on the amount of enriched uranium it can stockpile under a 2015 international agreement, in...
    A protester, center, calls Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to step down as she and others continue protest against the unpopular extradition bill near the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Monday, June 17, 2019. A member of Hong Kong's Executive Council says the city's leader plans to apologize again over her handling of a highly unpopular extradition bill. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

    Protesters Demand Resignation of Embattled Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam

    Demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered Monday outside the office of the city’s leader, demanding that she step down in the crisis over a highly...
    In this May 14, 2019, photo, Pakistani Christian Natasha Masih, speaks to the Associated Press in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Natasha begged her mother to bring her home from China, but it took an elaborate scheme devised by a small cabal of Christian men in her hometown of Faisalabad, in Pakistan's Punjab province, to orchestrate her escape from what began as an unhappy marriage, and ended in prostitution. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

    Pakistani Police Target Traffickers Buying Christian Girls and Selling Them as Brides and Sex...

    At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn’t bring herself to say what they were doing to...
    Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard points at his playoffs MVP trophy as he poses with performing artist Drake during the 2019 Toronto Raptors NBA basketball championship parade in Toronto, Monday, June 17, 2019. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

    1.5-million Fans Pack Downtown Toronto for Raptors Championship Parade

    Jubilant Raptors fans decked out in team gear are jamming downtown Toronto for a parade for the NBA champions. Crowds packed the route and the...
    FILE - In this May 10, 2019 file photo, a worker walks near truck trailers and cargo containers at the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Wash. Hundreds of businesses, trade groups and individuals have written to complain about President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese goods that he hasn't already hit with 25% import taxes, saying the additional import taxes would drive up prices for consumers, squeeze profits and leave U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage to foreign rivals that aren't subject to higher taxes on the vital components they buy from China. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

    Why U.S.-China Trade War Risks Hurting Companies in Both Countries

    U.S. businesses are imploring President Donald Trump not to expand his tariffs to $300 billion in goods from China that have so far been...
    Cars drive through an unlit street during a blackout in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, June 16, 2019. A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday in what the Argentine president called an “unprecedented” failure in the countries’ power grid. (AP Photo/Tomas F. Cuesta)

    ‘Should Have Never Happened’: Officials Search for Cause of Massive Blackout in South America

    The lights were back on Monday across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a huge blackout that affected tens of millions people, but authorities remained...
    FILE - In this May 2, 2019 file photo, Swedish programmer Ola Bini, left back, arrives for a court hearing in which his lawyers are requesting his freedom, in Quito, Ecuador. U.S. investigators have requested permission from Ecuador to question the Swedish programmer close to Julian Assange held in jail for more than two months on suspicion of hacking, the Associated Press has learned. The interview with Ola Bini is set to take place on Thursday, June 27th. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

    Sources Say U.S. Officials Will Interrogate Swedish Programmer Close to Julian Assange

    U.S. investigators have received permission from Ecuador to question a Swedish programmer close to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been held in jail...
    FILE - In this June 19, 2018, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, poses with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a photo during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chinese state media say President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week. State broadcaster CCTV said in its evening news program on Monday that Xi will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit Thursday and Friday. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP, File)

    Chinese President Xi Jinping Reportedly Set for State Visit to North Korea

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, state media announced Monday, as U.S. talks with North Korea...
    FILE - In this June 21, 2015 file photo, former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, wearing a red jumpsuit that designates he has been sentenced to death, raises his hands inside a defendants cage in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt. On Monday, June 17, 2019, Egypt's state TV said that the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar, File)

    Egypt TV Says Ousted President Mohammed Morsi Collapses and Dies in Court

    Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted...
    FILE - This Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, shows a part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country's atomic agency said Monday June 17, 2019, while also warning that Iran has the need for uranium enriched up to 20%, just a step away from weapons-grade levels. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP, File)

    Iran Speeds Up Uranium Enrichment as Mideast Tensions Mount

    Iran will surpass the uranium-stockpile limit set by its nuclear deal in the next 10 days, an official said Monday, raising pressure on Europeans...

    Banks Face New Challenges in Italian Diamond Scandal

    A long-running criminal probe into diamond sales by Italian banks has uncovered what prosecutors say is further evidence of corruption by officials at UniCredit,...

    Triple Suicide Bombing Attack Kills at Least 30 in Northeast Nigeria

    At least 30 people have been killed in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigerian state of Borno, state emergency officials said on Monday,...
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