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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Thursday he was pulling the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement, striking a major blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and distancing the country from its closest allies abroad. Framing his decision as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty," Trump said he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."

LONDON — Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has ridiculed a newspaper report suggesting the FBI wants to talk to him as part...

BANGKOK — As media attention again wanes, the public prosecutor said his office has yet to take action to seek the extradition of the ultra-wealthy heir to an energy drink fortune wanted for fatal hit-and-run charges.

LONDON — When he’s not playing the surly Hound, Rory McCann enjoys chopping wood and dropping even more F-bombs.

NAKHON PHANOM — Residents on Thursday were giving offerings to a mango tree that has previously yielded winning lottery numbers in hopes for a lucky break.

CHIANG RAI — Three suspects sought in the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a woman were not taken into custody in Myanmar as said...

In the United States and many other parts of the world, this is a worrisome time for LGBT activists, as the pace of civil rights victories has grown uneven and reports of anti-LGBT violence and persecution surface relentlessly.

PARIS — Steve Johnson held everything in, all of it, until he simply could not any longer.

CANBERRA, Australia — A Malaysia Airlines plane was forced to return to an Australian airport after a mentally-ill passenger threatened to detonate a bomb and attempted to enter the cockpit, police said on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG — A conservation group says the seizure of seven tons of pangolin scales in Hong Kong this week indicates that the heavily poached creature "could soon vanish for good" if urgent steps are not taken to protect it.