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TOKYO – Long respected for piloting Japan back to economic health, Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui fended off calls to resign Thursday in a scandal threatening the central bank’s delicate task of managing a long-awaited interest rate hike amid Japan’s budding recovery. Fukui told reporters he planned to stay …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – A piece of wreckage was found Monday on a beach several miles from the area where a boat was reported to have sunk with nine people on board, but no other trace of any vessel had turned up, the Coast Guard said. No one had reported …

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held …