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China's Finance Ministry has imposed an additional 10 percent import tax on luxury cars in the communist government's latest move to curb ostentatious spending.

West Papuan protesters faced off with police in the Indonesian capital on Thursday in a demonstration calling for the remote region's independence.

Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali-born student accused of carrying out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University this week, reportedly protested on his Facebook page about the killing of minority Muslims in Myanmar.

After five decades of war, more than four years of negotiations and two signing ceremonies, Colombia's congress late Wednesday formally ratified a peace agreement allowing leftist rebels to enter politics.

The managers of an apparently unregistered coal mine in northeast China are under questioning as rescuers tried Thursday to reach 22 workers trapped for a third day.

The Chinese engineering firm responsible for building a cooling tower where 74 workers were killed has offered about $175,000 in compensation to each of the victims' families, state media reported.

An official survey has found that Chinese factory activity rose again in November to its highest in more than two years.

Police say a 65-year-old surfer has been bitten by a shark on his foot and arm off Australia's east coast.

Brazilian prosecutors are threatening to quit their investigation into a corruption-kickback scheme at state oil company Petrobras if legislation that would allow judges and prosecutors to be charged with abuse of authority is signed by President Michel Temer.

Officials in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon are expressing disappointment at Carrier Corp.'s announcement it will keep hundreds of jobs in the United States rather than send them south of the border.

A lawsuit has been filed in Chile against three current or former Israeli Supreme Court justices for endorsing the construction of the West Bank separation barrier and the seizing of goods from Palestinians.

A series of artillery rounds lobbed Wednesday on Syria's eastern Aleppo district killed 26 civilians, including seven children, as they fled a government ground offensive in the besieged enclave.

The leader of a small, Caribbean nation, Fidel Castro was a major figure across much of the world, inspiring quixotic insurgencies, pouring soldiers into successful wars of liberation, helping define the politics of a whole continent.

Iraqi special forces fighting Islamic State militants on the eastern side of Mosul have retaken 19 neighborhoods from the extremist group since the battle for the city began last month, a senior Iraqi commander said on Wednesday.

Archeologists working in Mexico City have uncovered a circular temple built more than 650 years ago to worship a god of wind.

The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.

Parties to the Syrian conflict have systematically disregarded the laws of war, showing time and again that they are willing to do anything to gain military advantage, the U.N.

A judge in central Italy has acquitted three former bank managers accused of interfering with national oversight of a bank that the government later rescued.

A look at how fuel may have played a role in the crash of a charter flight approaching Medellin, Colombia that killed all but six of the 77 people on board.

Mexican airline Interjet says it has found an 8-year-old dog named Mika who had escaped her cage and gotten lost at Mexico City's international airport.