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North Korea frees American detainee

WASHINGTON – An American tourist who was arrested in North Korea in May after leaving a Bible at his hotel has been released and is en route home, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Jef...

Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies

WASHINGTON – Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more t...

Denver girls may have tried to join jihadis

DENVER (AP) - The FBI said Tuesday that it’s investigating the possibility that three girls from the Denver area tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State extremists. An FBI ...

U.S. tightens Ebola screening

But White House rejects ban on travel from West Africa nations

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Hong Kong blames outsiders for protests HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s leader has claimed that “external forces” are participating in student-led pro-democracy protests that have occupie...

Obama coalition-building again ... this time on Ebola

Cuba’s president contributes nearly 400 medical staff

Turkey says it helps Kurdish fighters enter Syria

Yet Kurds say help hasn’t arrived

U.S. airdrops arms to Kurds in Syrian town of Kobani

The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani, near the Turkish border. The U.S. said earlier in the day that it had...

Ebola fear, monitoring eases for some in Dallas

DALLAS – About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health...

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Australia to deploy special forces in Iraq CANBERRA, Australia – Australia will soon deploy 200 special forces troops in Iraq to advise and assist Iraqi security forces a month af...

Quarantine ends for family, friends

They had contact with infectious Ebola patient

WHO won’t discuss Ebola mistakes document

LONDON – The World Health Organization said Saturday that it wouldn’t explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The Associated Press in which the UN health agency said i...
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