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January 31, 2017

Austria: Anti CETA, TTIP petition signed by 562,000

An Austrian petition against EU free trade agreements with the United States and Canada has been signed by 562,000 people, and organizers are calling for parliament to reject both pacts.

January 31, 2017

Japan central bank upgrades outlook, keeps policy intact

Japan's central bank upgraded its outlook for growth in the coming year on Tuesday but hedged its bets by keeping its lavish monetary easing unchanged.

January 31, 2017

OAS commends Haiti for concluding vote, notes low turnout

International monitors are commending Haitian authorities for finishing an electoral cycle that started in 2015 but express concern over the low participation rate by voters.

January 31, 2017

6 killed in Canada mosque shooting; Trudeau calls it terror

A shooting at a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers left six people dead and eight others wounded in an attack that Canada's prime minister called an act of terrorism.

January 31, 2017

4 reasons N. Korea looms over US defense chief's Asia trip

North Korea will be casting a dark — and nuclear — shadow over U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' first foray abroad.

January 31, 2017

Premier: Trump ban doesn't affect Australia passport holders

The White House had assured Australia that its passport holders won't be affected by President Donald Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, the Australian prime minister said Tuesday as he resisted pressure to join other Western leaders in publicly denouncing the travel ban.

January 31, 2017

Pervasive charcoal trade getting major rethink in Haiti

Pungent wood smoke wafts daily across the hinterlands of Haiti's southern peninsula, where villagers stack smoldering wood beneath dirt mounds to make the charcoal that nearly all the urban households in the country use to cook every meal.

January 31, 2017

The Latest: Trudeau calls mosque shooting terrorist act

The Latest on the deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque (all times local): 12:45 p.m.

January 30, 2017

Stalled murder trial back on for president of Suriname

A military court in Suriname has ordered the president to resume his long-stalled murder trial in the killing of political opponents under his dictatorship in 1982.

January 30, 2017

Suspect charged with murder in Quebec mosque terror attack

The lone suspect accused of opening fire at a Quebec City mosque was charged with six counts of first-degree murder on Monday evening, one day after the massacre that killed six men.