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Ivory Coast voters headed to the polls Sunday hoping to put the past behind them as the West African nation held its first presidential election since a disputed vote five years ago triggered violence that killed more than...

A fire destroyed a home in the town of Ruffin Saturday night. Fire officials say no one was injured.

Utah dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten and so did Florida State. The two losses led to a shake-up in The Associated Press' Top 25 college football poll.

On Thursday, the top prosecutor takes part in the 18th annual Silent Witness ceremony. On the steps of the Statehouse, relatives, friends and advocates hold up life-sized silhouettes representing each person killed in South Carolina during the previous year as a result of domestic violence.

Spanish shepherds have led 2,000 sheep through the streets of Madrid in defense of age-old droving, grazing and migration rights that are increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and fenced-in pastures.

Hundreds of mourners took part in a march Sunday to commemorate the victims of France's deadliest road accident in more than 30 years.

The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq released a video Sunday purportedly showing the joint raid of a prison by U.S. and Kurdish peshmerga forces in which they released 70 hostages held by the Islamic State group.

Voters in Republic of Congo cast their ballots Sunday on a constitutional referendum that if approved will allow the country's longtime president to seek yet another term in office.

Five Ethiopian dissident groups in exile said they have formed an alliance to bring a change of government back home, describing Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's government as oppressive.

Tanzanians turned out in large numbers Sunday to vote in general elections in which the ruling party, a dominant force for decades, faces a strong challenge from a united opposition.

The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local).

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was partly responsible for the emergence of the Islamic State militant group in the Middle East. But he insists that...

Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine have stopped as a result of continuing tensions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The relatives of three Bosnian Muslims killed 20 years ago in the Srebrenica massacre are taking their long-running legal battle against the Dutch government to the European Court of Human Rights.

Kenya's military says it has destroyed a base in Somalia operated by the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab and killed 15 of its fighters.

Russian lawmakers say Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to hold parliamentary elections and discuss constitutional changes, and is also prepared to take part in an early presidential election, but only after the...

An Arab citizen of Israel using a paraglider flew into neighboring Syria, the Israeli military said Sunday, in what appeared to be an intentional attempt to join a rebel group there.

The number of people killed when U.S. forces bombed a trauma hospital in northern Afghanistan earlier this month has risen to 30, the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, which ran the clinic, said on...

Outside the stadium, first responders were taking away the dead, and emergency crews were cleaning up an intersection where a car had ripped into a black-and-orange-clad crowd watching Oklahoma State's homecoming parade.

Clemson looked very much like a national title contender.

In less than two weeks, Southern California went from the depths of a coach's firing to the heights of a wild celebration after beating the No. 3 team in the nation.

Derrick Henry and Alabama only dominated the last few minutes, when their national championship hopes were hanging by a thread.

Looking for a fast start in the World Series, the hard-throwing New York Mets will hand the ball to Matt Harvey.

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Alabama finished a grueling stretch with a great escape and Clemson turned a potentially tricky road test into a statement game.

Underneath the red-and-black sweatsuits, the ones with the name on the back of a country they've never been to, Alaina Kwan and Kylie Dickson tried to treat it like any other meet.