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US envoy says US-EU trade deal still alive

Negotiations for a mega U.S.-EU trade deal are still alive after they were suspended over elections and public opposition on both sides of the Atlantic, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday. EU officials had feared U.S. President Donald Trump would abandon the four-year talks for the...

ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad attack

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Baghdad that killed 27 people the previous day, shattering a relative lull in the Iraqi capital. The extremist group says in an online statement posted on an ISIS-affiliated website hours after the attack that a militant parked the...

Chicago-based group brings smiles to deaf Syrian children

Six-year-old Aya al-Souqi, a Syrian refugee, held the camera phone up to her gaze and listened to hear her mother. "I hear you!" she exclaimed. It was only the second time she'd spoken to her mother in Beeskow, Germany since getting fitted with a hearing aid by a Chicago-based charity to...

EU's marks 60th birthday in Rome under Brexit's shadow

European Union leaders gather in Rome this week to proclaim their "common future" on the bloc's 60th birthday, despite a wave of crises including Britain's looming exit from the bloc. The 27 leaders will use Saturday's anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957, to...