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A British exit would rock the EU by ripping away its second-largest economy, one of its top two military powers and its richest financial center.

President Xi Jinping has initiated a campaign to crack down on corruption in the country since he assumed office in 2012.

Pakistan issued a statement denouncing the U.S. drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour as a violation of its sovereignty.

The Agricultural Development Bank of China will lend nearly $460 billion over the next four years to fund development programs in rural areas.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is leading the push to keep the country inside the European Union ahead of the June 23 referendum.

A study revives the hypothesis that the red planet once had enough liquid water to form an ocean occupying almost half of its northern hemisphere.

Mount Sinabung, on the island of Sumatra, became active again in 2010 after remaining dormant for more than 400 years.

Pressure has mounted for Obama to use his landmark visit, which begins Monday, to roll back a 32-year-old arms embargo on Hanoi, one of the last vestiges of wartime animosity.

Although the president is elected separately, the vote on Sunday is a popularity gauge for President Nicos Anastasiades, whose term expires in 2018.

The communication took place over two hours before air traffic controllers in Athens lost contact with the Paris-to-Cairo Flight 804, reports said.

At least 21 people died and over 500,000 were moved into temporary shelters after the tropical cyclone triggered floods and landslides in low-lying regions.

The comments by President Nicolas Maduro come as the opposition says the unpopular leader must be removed to keep a brutal recession from worsening.

The U.S. secretary of state will underscore the need for more change during his first visit since the formation of Myanmar's first democratically elected government in 50 years.

Nearly 300 people perished when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine after being shot down in July 2014.

Some 69 million citizens are registered to participate in Sunday's elections to fill National Assembly seats.

After wildfires in Alberta, oil company Suncor says some staff will return Monday, while Syncrude says it has no timetable for resuming operations.

A protest Friday in the heavily fortified section of Iraq's capital resulted in at least four deaths and 100 injuries.

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, accompanied by CNN, visited with U.S. special operations forces in the war-torn country.

Creditors of the island's Government Development Bank have revived a lawsuit over a debt moratorium.

Aides deny the president’s travels to Japan and Vietnam will constitute an apology tour for U.S. actions in World War II and the Vietnam War.

The results of the strike have not been confirmed, but Pentagon officials said Mullah Akhtar Mansour was "likely killed."

The message made no mention of the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean on Thursday.

Ominous graffiti, a hijacking and a 1999 crash prompted the airline to implement more safety measures — including two guards on every flight.

More than 300 U.N. schools serving Palestinian refugee children in the Middle East have been destroyed, cut off by fighting or used as shelters, a report says.

They were supporters of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movement has clashed with the Iraqi government.

Global markets and policymakers can largely only wait and see what Britons will say at the polls June 23.

So far the images provide clues but no concrete answers to what happened to the downed jet carrying 66 people this week.

Some economists and farming groups have said the proposals could hit investment and production at a time when South Africa is emerging from a major drought.

Mourad Laachraoui said his brother had given no signs of being radicalized before he left for Syria in 2013.