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Pakistan's currency plunged by about 7 percent on Tuesday after the government said it would seek emergency bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew G. Keeler, East Carolina University; Dylan McNamara, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Jennifer Irish, Virginia Tech(THE CONVERSATION) Coastal communities around the world are struggling to adapt to rising sea levels and increasingly severe coastal storms. In the United States, local governments are making investments to reduce those risks, such as protecting

A ceremony for the victims of the upstate New York limousine crash that killed 20 people ended with participants lifting candles above their heads to signal unity and perseverance

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Trump says UN Ambassador Nikki Haley leaving administration 'at the end of the year'

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is resigning, The Associated Press has learned

Poland's interior minister says other European countries are coming around to his nation's view that Europe's capacity to absorb new migrants is limited

A Frenchman who was arrested when he arrived in the U.S. for a world beard-growing championship has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for online drug trafficking using the alias "OxyMonster"

The International Olympic Committee has elected nine new members including 24-year-old Samira Asghari, an Afghanistan women's national basketball team player

Taylor Swift is having a big week: She first broke her long-standing refusal to discuss politics Sunday and now she's going to give her first awards show performance in three years at the American Music Awards

A Berlin court has ordered city officials to ban older diesel vehicles from several downtown streets in order to reduce nitrogen dioxide levels in the German capital

U.S. stock indexes are mixed in early trading as markets continue to absorb the shakeout from last week's rapid rise in interest rates

A man with a hammer has attacked and damaged a statue of a bare-breasted woman, an emblem of the eastern city of Setif, the latest in a series of such attacks

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to give his green light to a government reshuffle by Wednesday following the resignation of his interior minister last week

In Washington and California, the election often isn't over on election night

A Minnesota teacher is under scrutiny after a message allegedly appeared on her Twitter account suggesting someone should assassinate new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

A British union has called for a 24-hour strike of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, putting up a "digital picket line" to demand better pay and conditions.

A British investigative group says one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex- Russian spy in Britain is a military intelligence officer who was made a Hero of the Russian Federation by President Vladimir Putin in 2014

Forecasters say Hurricane Michael and its torrents of rain might prompt many evacuations and rescues in Georgia