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LONDON (AP): More than 70 British lawmakers have urged the government to make sure that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces Swedish justice if prosecutors there reopen a rape allegation against him. The lawmakers signed a letter late Friday...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP): United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is making the economic and political crisis in Venezuela a central theme of his four-day Latin America tour. Paraguayan Foreign Minister Luis Castiglioni said Saturday that a...

MONTREAL (AP): A proposal to ban many public employees from wearing religious clothing is creating a fiery debate in the Canadian province of Quebec, where people are fighting to freely practise their religion – or to be free of it. The measure...

LONDON (AP): Granted a Brexit reprieve by the European Union (EU), British Prime Minister Theresa May urged lawmakers yesterday to pause, reflect on the need for compromise – and then fulfil their “national duty” to approve a divorce deal and take...

LONDON (AP): A bearded and shouting Julian Assange was pulled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and hauled into court yesterday, the start of an extradition battle for the WikiLeaks founder who faces US charges related to the publication of...

WELLINGTON (AP): New Zealand’s Parliament has passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded. A bill outlawing...

SAN PEDRO SULA (AP): Hundreds of Honduran migrants, many carrying young children, set out in a caravan for that country’s border with Guatemala yesterday, hoping to reach the United States. Some of those who gathered at the San Pedro Sula bus...

NEW YORK (AP): New York City declared a public-health emergency on Tuesday over a measles outbreak centred in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and ordered mandatory vaccinations in the neighbourhood. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual...

LOS ANGELES (AP): Football fan claims in a lawsuit that the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) violated his First Amendment rights by rejecting a personalised licence plate he said would celebrate his favourite team but which the DMV...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns before April 15. Sanders had been promising to release a decade’s worth of tax returns for more than a month. He declined to do so during the 2016 presidential race,...