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A White House representative echoed remarks made by the FBI director, who said this week the administration would not seek a bill allowing it to crack into encrypted information.

A hearing officer doesn't recommend a prison sentence for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Trade unions, environmental organizations and consumer-rights groups all demonstrated against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

"The lawyers are working right now to finalize the text and to prepare it for release," U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman says in the wake of a related release by WikiLeaks.

The iPhone maker reportedly disabled its recently introduced News app in China, where online censorship forces hard choices for U.S. companies.

In further unrest in the Kurdistan region, protesters also attacked offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq, with three people killed Saturday.

Here's (almost) everything you need to know before Alpha Conde seeks a second term in Guinea's presidential election Sunday.

Mathew Downing thought he was going to die when the gunman pointed a weapon at him. Then the shooter handed him an envelope with a flash drive in it.

The pilot program will be expanded to include Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing, as well as six other provinces and municipalities, according to the People's Bank of China.

Police reportedly closed the site and sealed off the area for forensic examination.

Germany and the European Commission are talking about implementing a so-called solidarity tax, which could help alleviate the effects of Europe's refugee crisis.

The U.S. and Japan began working on the Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missiles in 2006, according to reports.

Twenty years after the so-called "Million Man March" urged African-American men to atone for their personal failures and take charge of their families, the message from march leaders has changed to one demanding justice.

Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in East Jerusalem on Saturday, one of whom had stabbed two Israelis, police said, in a further wave of violence that has raised concerns about a new Palestinian uprising.

The Indonesian government initially insisted that it would not accept help from other countries to battle the forest fires.

The Stalinist state marked the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party with an enormous parade, at which a huge array of military hardware was on display.

The attack took place during a peace rally aimed to call for an end to the renewed violence between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.

Turkish police have detained the editor of a newspaper close to an Islamic cleric foe of Tayyip Erdogan on allegations of insulting the president, media reports said, fuelling concerns about a clampdown on media ahead of a Nov. 1 election.

Drone operator Howard Solomon III said he was trying to photograph the Washington Monument.

The move comes as tensions over the two countries' military campaigns in Syria are escalating and the chances of a clash between their respective forces are on the rise.

As China completes lighthouses on disputed islands in the South China Sea, it warns the U.S. against sending its naval vessels into the area.

A U.S. congressional commission's criticism of China's human rights record did not "accord with the facts", the Chinese government said on Friday, the latest friction over a long-running thorn in relations.

The presidential candidate's lead over Bernie Sanders has narrowed, according to a poll.

With the governor's signing of a set of bills, the state's medical marijuana industry will become regulated.

The Obama administration has cautioned U.S. bankers and foreign governments against rushing to invest in Iranian businesses.

Norway plans to boost its defense budget for 2016 because of fears prompted by Russian actions in the Arctic region and Europe.

Russia's airstrikes in support of Syrian President Assad are pushing the Obama administration to dial back its support of the rebels.

Signs declaring "Obama is wrong" and "Nothing Trumps Our Liberty" greeted the president in Roseburg.

A German politician has threatened to take the government to court over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy.