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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq welcomed its removal from a revised U.S. travel ban on Monday, calling it a "positive message" at a time when American and Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new version of his controversial travel ban, aiming to withstand court challenges while still barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program....
LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers are focusing on footwear, asking whether employers should be able to make women wear high heels as part of corporate dress codes....
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.S.-backed Syrian fighters on Monday cut the main road between the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, which is controlled by the Islamic State group, and the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, which is partially held by IS, as they press against the extremists' territory in Syria....
Imagine waiting a week to hear whether or not you have done enough to earn the biggest of your dreams....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The economy is up, unemployment is down and some Dutch prisons are so empty the government has been renting out cells....
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities have shut down activist Ye Haiyan's blogs and forced her to move from one city to another. Left with few options, she now produces socially conscious paintings to make a living and advocate for the rights of sex workers and people with HIV or AIDS....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pakistani leaders often wax lyrical about their "sweeter than honey" relations with all-weather friend China. There's no romance about their marriage of convenience with America....
SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) -- At least a half-dozen times over two decades, authorities investigated reports that members of a secretive evangelical church were being beaten. And every time, according to former congregants, the orders came down from church leaders: They must lie to protect the sect....
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia is protecting its "sovereignty and dignity" by expelling the North Korean ambassador, the prime minister said Monday, as relations between the countries frayed over the poisoning of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader....
