HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam allowed its currency to weaken by 1 percent Wednesday following the devaluation of the Chinese yuan and with an eye to a possible U.S interest rate hike. The central bank-set reference rate weakened to 21,890 dong to the U.S. dollar and the trading band at which …

Asked Tuesday if she had wiped her server to delete the emails she had sent while serving as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton should have said “yes” or “no.” Instead Clinton was evasive. She first pleaded ignorance, stuttering “I have no idea.” Fox News’ Ed Henry pressed her, saying, “You …

BAGHDAD – A top provincial official in Iraq’s Anbar province says up to 50 soldiers have been killed by Islamic State militants in two separate ambushes in the turbulent region west of Baghdad. Sabah Al-Karhout, president of the Anbar Provincial Council, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the ambushes …

SEOUL, South Korea – After more than 40 hours of talks, North and South Korea pulled back from the brink Tuesday with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the moment, avert the bloodshed they’ve been threatening each other with for weeks. In a carefully crafted, …

LINCOLN, Neb. – Organizers of an effort to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty are confident that they have collected enough signatures to place the issue on the 2016 ballot. Nebraskans for the Death Penalty is expected to submit signatures to the secretary of state’s office on Wednesday, one day before the …

MADRID – A Spanish woman is fuming after football club Barcelona made her pay 54 euros ($60) for a match ticket for her 10-month-old baby even though the seat wouldn’t be used. In a letter to El Periodico newspaper this week, Roso Castellsagues related how she and friends bought six …

MADRID – The mayor of a village in northwestern Spain denies his town council destroyed a heritage-protected Stone Age monument to replace it with a picnic table. A dispute erupted after an environmental protection group reported to the region’s Environment and Planning office the destruction of a historically important, 6,000-year-old …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have detained a prosecutor and a senior tax official on suspicion they took bribes from a businessman to resolve a court case in his favor. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Alina Bica, the former chief prosecutor for the agency investigating organized crime and terrorism, received …

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it has reached agreement with Yemen’s government and a Saudi-led military coalition on increasing the flow of badly needed goods like food and fuel to Yemen. The impoverished Arab country relies on imports for about 90 percent of its supplies, but it has …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – An official from the Multinational Force and Observers’ peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula says their vehicles that were hit with explosive devices are similar to ones used by the Egyptian army, but were painted white. The official, who requested anonymity because he’s not authorized to …