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NOME, Alaska (AP) -- The giant luxury cruise liner was anchored just off Nome, too hulking to use the Bering Sea community's docks on its inaugural visit....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims of Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency....

CHAMONIX, France (AP) -- Dozens of tourists, including a 10-year-old child, were safely rescued Friday after being trapped in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps overnight....

A stampede and crush killed more than 2,400 pilgrims at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia last year. Some of the survivors recount their experience:...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year's hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat. Suddenly, there was shouting and crying along the narrow street bordered by tall metal barriers....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Republican activists are trying to "make America great again" - from inside a Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House conservatives have wasted no time since returning from their summer recess showing just how tough they can make life for Speaker Paul Ryan - and for Democrat Hillary Clinton if she becomes president....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The Latest on North Korea's nuclear test (all times local):...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Friday it conducted a "higher level" nuclear warhead test explosion that will allow it to finally build "at will" an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons. It is Pyongyang's fifth atomic test and the second in eight months....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire....