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French officials were on high alert Thursday after a knife-wielding assailant shouting “Allahu akbar” killed three churchgoers in the Mediterranean city of Nice, fueling an already bitter national debate about free speech, terrorism and the place of Islam in a fiercely secular democracy.

The attack, which took place inside Nice’s …

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday met with a high-level Russian delegation advocating for jointly hosting an international conference on refugees in the capital Damascus next month.

Western nations and many of the more than 5.6 million Syrian refugees are against an international conference on the …

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) – Not so long ago the tables at Woow!!! restaurant in Havana were filled with tourists ordering mojitos and plates of grilled octopus.

But as President Donald Trump rolled back Obama-era measures opening Cuba relations, the restaurant grew increasingly empty.

Now entrepreneurs like Orlando Alain Rodríguez are …

Twitter intervened Thursday after former Malaysian leader Mahathir Bin Mohamad posted that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

Mr. Bin Mohamad, who ended his second term as Malaysia’s prime minister in March, made the incendiary remark …

Emmanuel Macron says his country “won’t surrender” after a knife attack against three people that left one “virtually beheaded.”

The French president quickly blasted the “Islamist terrorist attack” that also killed another woman and man.

“I say it with great clarity once again today: we won’t surrender anything,” Mr. Macron …

BOSTON (AP) – The U.S. State Department has agreed to turn over to Japan two American men accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was awaiting trial, the men’s lawyers said in court documents Thursday.

A federal judge intervened to …

HANOI — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the “tide is turning” against China amid a growing recognition of the threat Beijing’s policies pose to the U.S. and countries all around Asia.

Mr. Pompeo held talks this week with leaders of five southern Asian states and said in an …

LONDON (AP) – The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its growth forecasts for the British economy for this year and next, following an acceleration in the number of coronavirus infections over the past couple of weeks.

In its annual assessment of the British economy published Thursday, the Washington D.C.-based …

SAN DIEGO (AP) – A former U.S. embassy worker in Mexico is believed to have drugged and sexually assaulted as many as two dozen women, filming many of them while they were unconscious, according to federal prosecutors.

Brian Jeffrey Raymond was arrested earlier this month in San Diego, where …

The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of Iranian missiles and oil seized in three incidents starting in November 2019.

It is the largest forfeiture action ever taken against Iran for fuel and weapons, officials from the State and Justice Departments told reporters.

The missiles …