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The amount would shave 6 percent off the country’s national debt, or it could fund the entire health service for a year, but multinational firms like Apple are a big part of Ireland's economy and many people are reluctant to scare them away.

The possible partnership with an unidentified company could be the first time a Japanese firm builds arms for a foreign customer.

Police have reported a jump in hate crime in Britain after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, following a campaign that critics said stoked xenophobia and racism.

The first of several U.S. carriers to begin serving Cuba in the coming months, JetBlue Airways will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba.

Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation.

A U.N. official told a news conference in capital Sanaa that the new figure was based on official information from medical facilities in Yemen.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker began two days of talks with the Indian government Tuesday.

China called a car bomb blast on its embassy in Kyrgyzstan, which wounded three embassy staff, an “extreme and violent attack.”

The White House had pledged to admit at least 10,000 displaced Syrians during the current fiscal year, which wraps up at the end of September.

President Xi Jinping has embarked on an unprecedented drive to censor media that do not reflect the views of Communist Party leaders.

The United States on Monday called on all armed actors in the fighting to stand down and focus on the fight against Islamic State group.

The Chinese president seeks to place his men in key positions ahead of a once-every-five-years congress next year, and more new appointments are likely soon.

Australian customs officers seized a record 210 pounds of cocaine from a cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbour in the weekend, officials said Monday.

The central terminal’s arrival and departures areas as well as all other terminals re-opened after about two hours.

Rousseff, who is being impeached on charges of breaking budget laws, has denied wrongdoing and denounced the nine-month impeachment process.

Emergency services said they might have found more bodies in the ruined town of Amatrice five days after the earthquake hit central Italy.

There were no serious casualties in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant on a priest during Sunday service.

Mourad Hamyd, who is French and a brother-in-law of assailant Cherif Kouachi, was detained in Bulgaria last month.

Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit landlocked Laos, where the United States waged a “secret war” while fighting in Vietnam.

Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The student-led mass rally comes more than a month after U.S. prosecutors filed civil lawsuits alleging that over $3.5 billion was defrauded from state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Testing of donated blood is underway in Florida, Puerto Rico, as well as in other areas of the United States, and has been proven helpful in finding infected donations.

In the days ahead the technical teams will try to figure out ways to separate the opposition groups, backed by the United States and Gulf Arab countries, from the jihadis.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the new barrier, to be built alongside the existing one, would strengthen defenses to respond if Turkey’s policy on migration changed.

The bombing, the latest in a series of attacks in the southeast, comes as Turkey tries to recover from a failed July 15 military coup.

The death toll in an earthquake that flattened parts of central Italy rose to 267 on Friday as rescue workers pulled more bodies from mounds of debris.

Hillary Clinton has been criticized for using an unauthorized private email system run from a server in the basement of her home while she was secretary of state.

A body believed to be of Vice Chairman Lee In-won was found on a walking path outside Seoul on Friday morning, local media reported.

South Korea's Samsung and China's Tencent are pushing forward into the global tech limelight with stock prices sitting around record highs. As correspondent Tara Joseph reports, both firms have launched successful products in a crowded and competitive sector.