VATICAN CITY (AP)-  The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis meets frequently with victims of sexual abuse, seeking to defuse a mounting scandal over his unbridled support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Spokesman Greg Burke said...

BAGHDAD- Iraqi authorities said Thursday they have managed for the first time to have Daesh’s (ISIS) top leader extradited from Turkey. Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi, 55, was tracked to Turkey's Sakarya region, detained and returned through cooperation between Turkish, Iraqi and U.S....

WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump will make a national address at 11 a.m. Thursday, a White House spokeswoman said, about a massacre at a Florida high school Wednesday in which a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people in one of the country's deadliest school shootings. Earlier on...

LONDON- The number of hedge funds focused on trading cryptocurrencies more than doubled in the four months to Feb. 15, despite sharp falls in the value of the virtual coins in recent weeks, data from fintech research house Autonomous NEXT showed Thursday. The firm recorded a...