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Germany, which is currently opening its doors to a record number of refugees, will make an additional six billion euros ($6.7 billion) in public funds available next year to cover the cost of looking after them, the ruling coalition parties decided on Sept.7.

The United States removed November 17 from the list of foreign terrorist groups, according to a statement of the US Treasury.

US State Secretary John Kerry revoked the characterization of the organization November 17 as terrorist, according to the official newspaper of the federal government (Federal Register).

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. 

Iraqi Kurdistan president Massud Barzani's extended term expired on Aug. 20, leaving the autonomous region in a "legal vacuum" that Kurdish political parties are still trying to resolve.

Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Aug. 3 it would pay a portion of its revenue from direct crude oil sales to producers, in an apparent attempt to reassure foreign oil companies operating in the northern region.

The Obama administration dealt a setback to Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic oil exploration plans on June 30, saying established walrus and polar bear protections prevent the company from drilling with two rigs simultaneously at close range, as it had planned. 

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The June 25 Supreme Court decision helped solidify President Barack Obama's landmark health care law -- and galvanized every Republican 2016 presidential candidate in their vows to repeal it.
 
The ruling upheld a controversial portion of the Affordable Care Act that allows the federal government to subsidize insurance by giving tax credits to consumers nationwide.
 

The German Free Democratic Party, which usually gets around 10 percent of the vote, has been in the federal government longer than any other party in Germany, as a junior partner in successive coalitions. 

US police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than two a day, the Washington Post reported on May 30. 

The death rate is more than twice that tallied by the federal government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is incomplete, the newspaper said.