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President Barack Obama should have felt right at home in his visit to Germany on Wednesday, with summer weather that felt more like Washington than Berlin -- and a large crowd waiting to hear him speak.

A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city, according to United Nations experts.

A State Department official said the United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, in the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations.

Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate" -- in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives.

Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base.

Switzerland lawmakers have for the second time rejected a proposal to relax Swiss banking secrecy laws -- a move that would help the country's banks avoid facing U.S. criminal charges for shielding tax cheats.

In a speech Wednesday in Berlin, President Obama issued a call to tackle global warming -- an issue he has promised to make a priority since his 2008 presidential campaign.

Former Pope John Paul II has moved one step closer to sainthood -- as a commission of theologians approved a miracle attributed to his intercession, which clears a key hurdle.

Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative moderate.

The Russian government has reacted skeptically to President Barack Obama's renewed call on Wednesday for a reduction in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapon stockpiles.