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The bank is freezing a plan to create 250 new jobs in the state citing a controversial law targeting LGBT residents.

Stronger commodity prices failed to offset domestic concerns over the stability of improvement of the real economy in China.

Beijing struck back at Tokyo, saying the country has become a “regional wave-maker keen on rocking the boat” in the contested region.

NATO has said it will not return to business as usual until Russia respects international law.

Volkswagen has been effectively shut out of the unsecured bond market since September, when it admitted to rigging U.S. diesel emissions tests.

About 11,000 people are stranded along the border between Macedonia and Greece.

European stocks and U.S. stock futures pointed up Monday even as Asian markets showed mixed results and crude oil prices dipped again.

Bonuses for senior managers have become a flashpoint in an escalating dispute with powerful labor leaders at Europe’s biggest carmaker as it prepares to finalize a new strategy.

Japan kicked off a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies in a city destroyed by a U.S. atom bomb more than 70 years ago.

Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the domestic intelligence agency, said authorities are still unaware of any concrete terrorist attack plans in the country.

Austria's Parliament is drafting legislation on what should be done with a structure in Braunau, where Hitler lived in his early years.

Although the number of people applying for asylum in Germany has fallen by over 60 percent, officials worry new routes into Europe could sprout.

Francis is moving the church's practice, if not dogma, regarding marriage and divorce in the same progressive direction he's taken with economic issues.

France and Germany pledged to continue supporting Ukraine despite a Dutch vote that created a roadblock for the country’s European Union aspirations.

The U.S. dollar fell further against the Japanese yen Thursday after minutes of a Federal Reserve meeting released Wednesday offered little prospect of a rise in interest rates in July.

The massive data leak has fueled discontent with entrenched political elites as Britons mull leaving the European Union.

Russia has more than 19 million people living in poverty as low oil prices are expected to keep battering its recessionary economy.

Equity markets the world over had been hit hard Tuesday, but optimism over a prospective oil output freeze buoyed the markets Wednesday.

The news comes as a controversial EU deal with Turkey aimed at easing the growing influx of migrants and refugees stalled.

Women and children now account for more than half of all asylum-seekers in Europe — and nearly one in 10 of those women are pregnant.

Russia has continued to build its arsenal despite an agreement with the U.S. to reduce stockpiles by 2018.