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The country's central bank has completed a transfer of gold bars worth $13 billion from New York to Frankfurt, part of a plan to repatriate roughly half the reserves it keeps abroad.

Dutch police have seized a truckload of chemicals they say could have produced up to one billion ecstasy pills.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected the idea advanced by US President Donald Trump of creating safe zones for refugees and displaced people in Syria.

At least 13 people were injured Friday evening in a fire on a metro train in Hong Kong, police said.

A group of clowns wearing oversized shoes, bow ties and bowler hats enter a church in a semi-solemn procession.

House Democrats put on a unified show in public this week at their annual retreat, but behind the scenes members of the party were still trying to find a way to bridge their own divides ahead of a 2018 election that could put them back in control of the House or deeper in the hole than before.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied President Donald Trump didn't know what a key nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia's president was when the two men spoke by phone two weeks ago.

The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a decisive rebuke to President Donald Trump's Justice Department Thursday night, issuing a 29-page order rejecting almost every argument it made to reinstate his travel ban.

Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who is running to be chair for the Democratic National Committee, released his strategy Friday for how to get the Latino community more engaged in the Democratic Party -- an issue that came up after the Democrats' loss in the 2016 election.

Well, that didn't take long. Less than two months ago, Donald Trump rattled China by suggesting that the highly sensitive matter of American policy on Taiwan could be used as leverage to "make a deal" with Beijing on trade and other issues.

An emergency call resulted in a first responder taking a baby home to keep as his own.

Desperate efforts are underway to save dozens of pilot whales still alive after hundreds stranded themselves on a New Zealand beach, in the third largest mass stranding in the country's history.

In a middle-of-the-night vote, the Senate confirmed Rep. Tom Price to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

On the heels of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis' successful trip to South Korea and Japan last week, and with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Washington this week, we have an important opportunity to reaffirm America's commitment to security and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

If you're the type of person who likes to customize meals in order to achieve your health goals, Wendy's is worth the trip. Like many others, the chain allows you to modify a meal any way you wish.

For football fans in Aleppo, a recent match provided a fleeting glimpse of what life used to look like.

It begins on the famed Sunset Boulevard, the iconic vein that travels 22 miles across the Los Angeles basin.

One thing's for sure on Valentine's Day: owners of chocolate stores, flower and greetings card shops will definitely be smiling.

Now that a three-judge panel of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the government's emergency request to reinstate the travel ban -- what happens next in the case?