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China's state news agency reported that a Chinese ship had conducted a successful test of a trading route along the long-fabled Arctic Northwest Passage. But it provoked confusion in Canada - the nation which claims sovereignty over the waters containing the Northwest Passage.

Prosecutors asked a German court Tuesday to impose the highest possible sentence against the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial, saying she played a key role in the killing of 10 people by a group calling itself the National Socialist Underground.

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A museum and memorial under construction in downtown Columbus, Ohio, could become known officially as the national site for Americans to reflect on the experiences of veterans.

Germany has deported eight Afghan men whose asylum applications were rejected back to their home country.

Berlin police say an Afghan man was attacked in the German capital by two assailants who yanked a crucifix necklace off of him and demanded to know why he had become a Christian.

An honor guard procession, led by the police chief from the Madison County village of West Jefferson, escorted Jacob Drake's body to Rader-McDonald-Tidd Funeral Home in West Jefferson.

The death toll left behind by Hurricane Irma continued to rise Wednesday, as six people died at a South Florida nursing home that apparently was without air conditioning amid ongoing power outages statewide, according to local officials.

Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years - but autonomous boats could be just around the pier.

Scores of U.S. Army tanks and other fighting vehicles were offloaded at a port in Poland on Wednesday, touching down on European soil as they begin their push toward NATO’s eastern edges.

Without air conditioning, South Florida weather is oppressive at best and downright dangerous at worst. By Wednesday morning the number of Hurricane Irma outages was down to 3.5 million - but that's still more than a third of the state.

Israel's leader on Wednesday said his country supports Kurdish independence ahead of a key referendum on the matter.

Romania's coast guard has rescued more than 150 migrants from Iraq and Iran, including 56 children, from a ship in distress on the Black Sea, on what is becoming a favored route for migrants trying to reach Western Europe.

A U.S. airman was pronounced dead after being found unconscious at work, Air Force officials said Wednesday.

Chris Ginter, a 34-year-old commercial real estate developer, became almost mythical in the days after Hurricane Harvey dumped heavy rains on the Houston area, plucking people from their flooded homes and streets and zipping them out in his brother's giant silver truck with 55-inch tires.

Servicemembers will have less time to claim disability compensation before leaving the military but should get benefits faster under changes being made by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday he has become convinced that the United States must keep all three parts of its nuclear force, rather than eliminate one, as he once suggested.

The collapse of Islamic State in its most important Iraqi strongholds has brought a rare moment of hope. It is also a moment of peril, as Iraq emerges from the fight against the militants only to be confronted with the same problems that fueled their spectacular rise in 2014.

With Myanmar drawing condemnation for violence that has driven at least 370,000 Rohingya to flee the country, the government said Wednesday its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will skip this month's U.N. General Assembly.

The head of an international court that investigates war crimes and genocide has renewed her call for the arrest of a Libyan military officer alleged to have been involved in the killing of 33 captives "in cold blood."

Several gunmen forcibly entered the Burundi office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, an official said Wednesday.

Three people died at the facility in Hollywood, Florida, and two others were pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, said Barbara Sharief, the Broward County mayor, at a news briefing Wednesday.

The training course will focus on the saber techniques adopted by the U.S. Army in the mid-19th century. There will also be information on the history of Fort Vancouver, the dragoons and their weaponry, and saber-driven military tactics.