Trillion-dollar budget deficits is making comeback

WASHINGTON - The era of trillion-dollar budget deficits is about to make a comeback and a brewing budget deal could mean their return comes just next year.

UK rejects customs union with EU

The British government has indicated a policy change over its approach to Britain's exit from the European Union, after sources close to the prime minister's office rejected the prospect of Britain being part of any future customs union.

Deadly Amtrak crash 'was preventable'

CAYCE, South Carolina - US Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina.

IFRC promises aid to refugees

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, or IFRC, will continue to provide assistance to refugees who are in urgent need of help, IFRC's Vice-President Chen Zhu said on Sunday.

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Trump says memo clears him in probe

PALM BEACH, Florida - President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

Women's campaign hits West Bank

RAMALLAH, Middle East - A young Palestinian-American is the driving force behind a nascent #MeToo movement in the West Bank, selling T-shirts, hoodies and denim jackets with the slogan "Not Your Habibti (darling)" as a retort for catcalls and writing down women's complaints from her perch in a West Bank square.

Gunman arrested over migrant attack

MILAN - A gunman with extreme right-wing sympathies shot and wounded six African immigrants on Saturday in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree, authorities said, terrorizing a small Italian city where a Nigerian man had been arrested days earlier in a teenager's gruesome killing.

Peace talks to resume amid calls for cease-fire

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - As South Sudan's warring factions have yet to abide by the recently signed cease-fire agreement, the second round of peace talks are scheduled to start in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Monday.

Russia hits back after jet downed

MOSCOW - Massive Russian air strikes have killed at least 30 militants in northwest Syria, where a Russian fighter jet was shot down, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

ROK, US presidents discuss Korean Peninsula issue, Winter Olympics

SEOUL - Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump talked over phone about the Korean Peninsula issue and the upcoming Winter Olympics, the presidential Blue House said on Saturday.

Merkel enters final stretch in coalition talks

FRANKFURT AM MAIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives sat down with their historic center-left rivals on Sunday to try and seal a deal to form a government more than four months after legislative elections.