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The Senate had been juggling three proposals to extend the Iran Sanctions Act, which lays out energy, banking and defense-related restrictions over Iran’s nuclear and missile activities, and expires at the end of the year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama, right, attend a bilateral meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016.

NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s government said Tuesday it will use indelible ink to mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks as authorities struggle to deal with the bedlam caused by the sudden demonetizing of the country’s...

A freight train is seen trapped by landslides following an quake in the area north of Kaikoura, New Zealand, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said his meeting with Donald Trump – the first by a foreign leader – convinced him the U.S. president-elect was someone “in whom I can have great confidence”.

President Obama went to great lengths not to criticize his successor, even on President-elect Trump’s controversial appointment of alt-right figure and former Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon to a top spot in his White House.

He said inequality, on more vivid display due to widespread technology, now posed one of the biggest threats to democratic nations, their stability and prosperity. There were masses ready and primed to vote for Trump because he motivated and inspired people to get out and vote....

Calvin Hunt stands with his son outside of Trump Tower on November 16, 2016. With diplomacy the United States opened relations with Cuba. Thousands of people took to the streets and gathered at Trump Towers today in NY to demonstrate against Donald Trump’s presidency.

Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, weighed in as well.

If Trump wanted to discuss changes, Canada would come to the table, he said. Washington state and Seattle were among the leading sources of queries.

It will be Trump’s first meeting with a world leader since his election last week.

FILE – then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion on national security in his offices in Trump Tower in NY.

“People need hope”, Obama stressed in an interview with local daily Sunday’s Kathimerini, underscoring also the need that Greece continues on the path of reforms to exit the seven-year debt crisis and restore sustainable growth.

The Erdogan administration blames Gulen for an attempt by the military to stage a coup in July this year, and has demanded his extradition from the United States.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)-the corporate-friendly trade deal between the USA and 11 Pacific Rim nations that sparked progressive outcry over its threats to everything from democracy to digital rights to climate goals -now appears to be “in full-blown cardiac...