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Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The number of Zika cases keeps climbing in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Health officials said Friday …

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. – A judge on Monday cleared the way for the release of many of the hundreds of 911 …

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press HAVANA – President Barack Obama’s easing of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba has had virtually no positive effect on …

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG – South Africa said Thursday it will now provide free treatment to all people infected with HIV, regardless of the condition of …

Associated Press CAIRO – An Egyptian rights group says Egypt has built over a dozen new prisons following the military’s 2013 ouster of Islamist President …

Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian news reports say security forces have detained a journalist over alleged links to Boko Haram and purported knowledge of …

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press HAVANA – Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign …

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY – Elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis on …

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN The Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a …

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associate Press HAVANA – The commander of Colombia’s biggest rebel movement said Sunday its fighters will permanently cease hostilities with the government …