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"Operation Car Wash" has called into question ties between "Lula," the beloved ex-president, and a construction titan arrested last week.

Few priests or bishops outside of parts of Latin America addressed the pope’s environmental call in Sunday church sermons.

Social media data show many Chinese are just as opposed to the dog meat festival as those in the West.

The new military initiative will seek to stop human traffickers at the source before migrants even get on board ships.

Some local governments in Nigeria have not paid their employees for 10 months, prompting the appeal to the U.N.

Use of the Confederate flag helps "to identify the worst people in the world," says comedian John Oliver.

House Republicans are pushing bills this week to defang the Obama administration's hallmark environmental regulations.

The two convicted murderers have been on the run since June 6, and there have been possible sightings in disparate parts of New York state.

Last summer's war in Gaza left 2,251 Palestinians and 73 Israelis dead, and now the U.N. is accusing both parties of war crimes.

Nieto's approval rating rose 3 percentage points to 40 percent but was still down from 48 percent a year ago.

Leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal reveal that big business could use secret tribunals to sue sovereign governments over public-interest policies threatening corporate profits.

The operation aims to destroy the boats used to ferry thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean, but critics say it's just "sound and fury."

The beer festival was the latest in a string of mounting tensions in China between Han Chinese and Uighur Muslims.

Police are investigating hundreds of leads in their search for the two escaped convicts, who are considered "very dangerous."

Dog meat sales are falling after criticism at home and abroad against Yulin festival, with many dogs said to have been stolen.

Pyongyang has decried South Korea's decision to allow the opening of a new U.N. Human Rights office in Seoul as a conspiracy against it.

After a Russia-France deal for two Mistral-class helicopter carriers reportedly fell apart, the former is readying its own aircraft carrier.

All nine women were arrested under laws -- enforced by local Islamic authorities -- that prohibit cross-dressing.

Seven Taliban militants, including a suicide bomber, were also killed in the attack, which was carried out while the parliament was in session.

The sightings coincide with the 1975 release of the movie “Jaws,” in which a great white shark is seen attacking people on a fictional New England town.

Spain's Basque region has long sought to become an autonomous nation, and calls for a referendum vote have grown in recent years.

ISIS has exploited social media, most notoriously Twitter, to spread its propaganda to draw in people prone to radicalization.

On Monday, over 900 industries will be temporarily shut down and 40 percent of Santiago's 1.7 million cars will be forced off the roads.

Asian shares got the week off to a strong start and U.S. stock futures and the euro firmed on Monday.

A Colorado teen died of the plague earlier this month in Colorado.

Officials worked late into the night to produce a deal ahead of a summit of eurozone leaders in Brussels that they hope can keep Greece in the currency bloc.

Asked whether he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin might change course, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he hoped so, but "I can't be sure."

Polish airline LOT said 1,400 passengers were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline's ground computer systems.

Up to 100 women have gathered in Egypt to protest laws that prohibit vigils.