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EU officials said Turkey had a moral and legal duty to help Syrian refugees streaming into its territory to escape fighting in their home towns.

In many cities, counterdemonstrators and police outnumbered the protesters.

Many countries that have been accepting refugees appear to have reached a breaking point.

The European steel industry has cut its workforce by about one-fifth since the global financial crisis became apparent eight years ago.

According to the study, published in the journal Science, a shift from light-colored species, such as oak and birch, to darker-colored conifers stoked warming in Europe.

Retirees make up over 20 percent of Germany’s population, and their financial security and life experiences make them suitable volunteers.

Defective air bag control units, affecting less than 2 million vehicles in the U.S., have a power supply component that may corrode, the company said.

A London event aimed at raising funds for millions of Syrian refugees began Thursday, just two days after peace talks on the conflict collapsed.

Speculation over a hold on Federal Reserve interest rate hikes and big gains in crude oil prices pushed global markets and U.S. stock futures up Thursday.

Germany saw more than 1 million refugees from war-torn regions in the Middle East and Africa arrive in the country last year.

Fears about an attack on German soil have risen since deadly bombings and shootings in Paris in November.

U.S. companies trying to extract data on European citizens are entering another gray area, critics of the deal have said.

Investors rushed to safe havens such as gold and bonds as most world markets extended Tuesday's losses.

In a speech Tuesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter previewed a $582 billion spending plan for fiscal 2017 that will be detailed next week.

Europe’s refugee crisis is about people, but commerce catastrophe looms if the countries can’t agree on a new system that preserves freedom of movement.

The country’s Labor Ministry predicted that unemployment will hit 6 percent this year, as sanctions and the low price of oil take their toll.

The overall unemployment rate in the eurozone fell to a five-year low in December, the EU’s statistics office Eurostat announced Tuesday.

For the annual tradition, thousands of revelers converge on the small Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney to see if Punxsutawney Phil will emerge from his temporary burrow — a simulated tree stump on a farm — and see his shadow.

January updates on global factory activity show the new year began much as the old one ended, with too much capacity chasing too little demand. Sonia Legg reports.

Another million refugees are expected to enter Europe in 2016 as right-wing parties continue to gain support in Germany and elsewhere.

Markets in China tumbled the most among global benchmark indexes this year, and extended their steepest monthly sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis.