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Germany's Scholz fires his finance minister as his coalition collapses

BERLIN -- Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday he was firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, signaling the collapse of the ruling three-party...

In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change

WASHINGTON -- The election of Donald Trump as president for a second time and the Republican takeback of the U.S. Senate could undo...

Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party edges ahead in gubernatorial election

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party was leading polls on Wednesday in a historic gubernatorial...

Baby girl and her mother among those lost in Spain's catastrophic flooding

PAIPORTA, Spain -- The mangled car in which Jorge Tarazona’s three-year-old niece and sister-in-law perished in last week's catastrophic flooding in Spain now...

Hit by scandal, Japan's top automaker Toyota reports lower profits

TOKYO -- Toyota’s July-September profit sank to less than half of what it was in the same period the previous year, as a...

Japanese automaker Honda reports lower profits as China sales decline

Honda said its profits slipped nearly 20% in the first half of the fiscal year from the same period the previous year, as...