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An industry standard soon to become effective will shift credit- and debit-card fraud liability to merchants that don’t upgrade their systems from the old to the new.

An outbreak of violence killing at least 21 people in the country's capital of Bangui was reportedly spurred by the assassination of a young Muslim man.

World Tourism Day, which falls on Sept. 27 annually and is celebrating its 35th year in 2015, was conceived to celebrate one of the world’s most important industries.

State officials and family members gathered at Brooklyn's Emmanuel Baptist Church in a private service for Carey Gabay, 43, who was struck in the head at a pre-dawn outdoor celebration.

Francis raised the immigration issue at a time when Republican U.S. presidential contenders have touted actions to stem the flow of immigrants into the country.

Police in Delaware have an emergency call made by a witness saying the slain African-American man shot himself. But the timing of events raises big questions.

The holiday is held in memory of the Book of Exodus tale describing how the Israelites traveled for 40 years through the Sinai desert in Egypt before entering the Holy Land.

Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud was released on $300,000 bail in California, and some believe he may have already fled the country.

Authorities in Germany have known for years about the widening gap between emissions values measured in official laboratory tests and those recorded in real-world environments.

Iran has ratcheted up its criticism of the way Saudi Arabia meets one of the world’s largest crowd-control challenges year in and year out.

In the wake of the stampede at Mecca, Saudi Arabia's top religious leader exonerated the crown prince who heads the committee charged with overseeing the hajj pilgrimage.

Ukraine and Western countries have claimed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was hit by a Russian-made missile fired by pro-Moscow separatists in July of last year.

Pope Francis travels on Saturday to Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, to promote the issue of religious freedom on the penultimate day of his first visit to the United States.

The Asian city-state is regularly blanketed by pollutants generated by forest fires set by farmers burning the trees to make way for palm-oil plantations in Indonesia.

Indonesia and Thailand have cracked down on fish that are caught by illegally enslaved migrant laborers in their countries after an investigation linked them to U.S. suppliers.

A foreign national, who was the first suspect arrested in the aftermath of a bombing in the Thai capital that killed at least 20, is the person police believe planted the bomb.

Ukraine and some of its Western allies condemned on Friday a decision by pro-Russian separatists to ban most foreign aid organizations from parts of rebel-held territory, saying the move violated the Minsk peace agreement.

Israeli authorities say action would be taken over the incident, captured on video showing soldiers destroying the reporters' cameras and using physical force to detain them.

China and the United States will look at the mutual recognition and enforcement of seizure orders for dirty assets which have been taken abroad by corruption suspects, China's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

An alleged Islamist militant is facing proceedings at the International Criminal Court over the destruction of historic mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2012.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday that ties with the United States had improved, although there was "still a long road to travel" before the two estranged nations could have normal relations.

After days of denials, Pentagon officials admitted that Syrian rebels trained by the U.S. had swapped their weapons for safe passage through an al Qaeda-linked group's territory.

"Yes, the border is now open to all traffic," an officer of the border police at the key Bajakovo crossing said.

With her hair swept to the side, the wife of the president dazzled in the long, fitted dress.

The stampede "was perhaps because some pilgrims moved without following instructions by the relevant authorities," the country's health minister said in a statement.

New Yorkers showed their affection for Pope Francis on Friday before he leaves for Philadelphia, the last stop in his multicity tour of the United States.

Ticket demand was high for Pope Francis' Mass at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday night. "The right pope at the right time," one attendee said.

“I think the pope has already communicated that the voices of the locked out and the left out should be listened to."

The correspondence from 2009, with Gen. David Petraeus, mostly dealt with personnel matters, the State Department said.