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  • Harry, girlfriend look on as Invictus Games end in Canada

    The Invictus Games for wounded veterans came to a close with a ceremony featuring stars such as Bruce Springsteen _ though some of the attention is...

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  • Tillerson says US has direct channels to talk to North Korea

    America's top diplomat is acknowledging that the United State is maintaining direct channels of communications with North Korea

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  • Air France plane forced to land in Canada with engine damage

    Air France says a passenger flight en route to California from Paris was forced to land in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador...

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  • Hurricane stresses Puerto Rico's already weak health system

    Of all the problems unleashed on Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, the plight of overtaxed hospitals is among the worst

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  • Airstrikes on IS-held areas in Syria kill and wound dozens

    Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes on villages and towns held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria have killed and wounded dozens

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  • Greek police arrest 8 smugglers who brought in 38 migrants

    Greek police have announced they have arrested 8 migrant traffickers, who smuggled a total of 38 migrants through Greece's land border with Turkey

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  • Separatists vow to defy police ultimatum over Catalan vote

    Catalan separatists vowed to ignore a police ultimatum to leave the schools they are occupying to use as polling stations in a vote seeking...

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  • Hezbollah leader: Kurdish vote will sow division in region

    The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has warned that a controversial referendum on support for independence in Iraq's Kurdistan will lead...

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  • The Latest: Protesters rally against Catalan independence

    Protesters rallying against a referendum on Catalonia declaring independence from Spain have scaled windows of Barcelona's town hall and attempted to...

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  • Death toll rises to 360 in Mexico earthquake

    The death toll from Mexico's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has risen by two and now stands at 360

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  • Rights groups urge Egypt to halt crackdown on homosexuals

    HRW, Amnesty call on Egypt to halt crackdown on suspected homosexuals

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  • Spain's FM calls Catalan referendum a mockery of democracy

    Spain's foreign minister said Saturday the Catalan regional government's plan to hold an independence referendum is a mockery of democracy

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  • 'Ja' at last: 1st same-sex couples in Germany to wed Sunday

    Forty years after first kiss, German couple plan to be first couple to wed when same-sex marriages become legal

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  • The Latest: Iraqis reach Turkey's border with Kurdish region

    Two Iraqi officials say Iraqi central government officials have moved through Turkey onto the Turkish side of one of the Kurdish region's...

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  • Dead vet's long-lost dog tag found amid hurricane debris

    A dead Vietnam veteran's dog tag was found amid Hurricane Irma debris miles from his home and returned to his widow

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  • 50 detained as anti-Semitic group marches in Swedish city

    Police say at least 50 people have been detained during a right-wing demonstration in Sweden's second-largest city that left one police officer and...

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  • Turkey opens military training base in Somalia capital

    The Turkish government has opened a military training base, its largest in Africa, in the Somali capital, Mogadishu

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  • Thousands rally across Pakistan ahead of Ashura celebrations

    Thousands of Shiite Muslims have rallied across various parts of Pakistan ahead of tomorrow's religious festival of Ashura, or "Day of Remembrance"

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  • Turkish police detain 2 for Syrian activists' slayings

    Turkey's official news agency says police have detained two suspects in connection to the slayings of a prominent Syrian activist and her journalist...

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  • Spain, Catalonia head for showdown over independence vote

    Spain and the powerful, prosperous Catalonia region are headed for a showdown Sunday

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  • Timeline of recent events in Catalonia's independence drive

    A look at events leading up to the latest confrontation between Madrid and Barcelona over Catalonia's independence

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  • Cardinal Burke back at Vatican high court _ but as adviser

    One of Pope Francis' leading conservative critics, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, is getting a second life at the Vatican high court he headed until...

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  • Bali authorities urge many who fled volcano to return home

    Bali authorities are trying to convince more than half of the 144,000 people who fled a menacing volcano on the resort island to return home, saying...

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  • Pope to mayors: Don't build towers, expand piazzas

    Pope Francis is urging mayors to redouble their efforts to welcome migrants and refugees and promote ways to integrate them into their new communities

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  • Report: Welsh climber killed in Yosemite tried to save wife

    A British newspaper is reporting that the Welsh climber killed by falling rock earlier this week in Yosemite National Park died while trying to shield...

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  • Russian soldier who killed 3 comrades shot dead

    Officials in Russia's far east say a soldier who fatally shot other servicemen during drills has been tracked down and killed

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  • Norway grants immigration to Israeli nuclear whistleblower

    Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been granted permission to immigrate to Norway so he can be united with his Norwegian wife

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  • Spain's foreign minister says Catalonia region's plan to hold an independence referendum is "a mockery of democracy."

    Spain's foreign minister says Catalonia region's plan to hold an independence referendum is "a mockery of democracy."

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  • Egypt's population stands at nearly 95 million

    Egypt's population stands at nearly 95 million, an additional 9.4 million live abroad

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  • Romania: Ex-secret police chief Vlad dies at age 86

    A former colleague of Iulian Vlad, the man who led Romania's feared communist-era Securitate secret police, says Vlad has died at age 86

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  • Afghan official: 2 people killed by roadside bombs

    Afghan official says at least two people including a police officer killed by roadside bombs in western Herat province

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  • Europe wary but muted ahead of Catalonia's independence vote

    Other parts of Europe with independence movements remain wary but muted ahead of Catalonia's vote on whether to leave Spain

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• Cuba

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  • US warns against travel to Cuba, cuts embassy staff after mysterious 'attacks'

    The U.S. order is in response to recent "specific attacks."

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  • Romania: Fire at Bucharest retirement home leaves 1 dead

    Authorities say one person has died and 19 people were hospitalized suffering from smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a retirement home in the...

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  • Dubai dreams of flying taxis darting among its skyscrapers

    Dubai is hoping to one day have flying, pilotless taxis darting among its skyscrapers

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  • Iraqi military preparing to take control of Kurdish borders

    Iraq's military is preparing to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region

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  • Pakistan: Indian fire kills 2 villagers, soldier in Kashmir

    Pakistan's army says Indian troops with heavy weapons have targeted civilians from across the frontier in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing two...

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  • In Hong Kong, political banners reveal gulf with mainland

    Clashes about pro-independence banners in Hong Kong's universities have exposed the widening gulf between Hong Kong and mainland China, which now...

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  • Where buildings fell to quake, memorials rise in Mexico City

    Flower and toys, impassioned messages and even hard hats of rescue workers have become impromptu memorials across Mexico City as people pay homage to...

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  • Official survey: China factory activity rises to 5-year high

    A report says China's factory activity expanded last month at the fastest pace in five years, indicating a healthy outlook for the world's second...

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  • Myanmar refugee exodus tops 500,000 as more Rohingya flee

    Five weeks after a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar began, the U.N. says the number of arrivals in Bangladesh has now...

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  • Villagers race to save Bali cows from volcanic oblivion

    Bali's gently lowing cows, prized for their hardiness and doe-like temperament, won't become victims of the tropical island's menacing Mount Agung...

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  • Aid flows to Puerto Rico but many still lack water and food

    More than a week since Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, bottlenecks slowing the distribution of aid are beginning to ease

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  • Mexico official: Warnings over school ignored before quake

    A Mexico City borough president says officials from a previous administration ignored warnings that unauthorized construction at a school that...

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  • Colombia rebel leader readies troops ahead of cease-fire

    The head of Colombia's last remaining rebel group has ordered guerrillas to stand down ahead of a bilateral cease-fire slated to go into effect this...

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  • Memorials spring up at Mexico City's quake collapse sites

    Impromptu memorials have sprung up across Mexico City as people come to terms with the devastating 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 350

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  • Obama, in Canada, warns of pace of technological change

    Former President Barack Obama says closing off borders won't create jobs in the future because what's changing industries like manufacturing is...

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  • The Latest: Catalan leader rallies independence backers

    Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has closed an electoral rally campaigning for the secession from Spain, saying that Sunday's vote will provide...

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  • Maria dims Puerto Rico's bleak economic outlook

    Puerto Rico's economic outlook even dimmer after Hurricane Maria despite promises of aid

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  • UN body: Int'l experts to examine rights abuses in Yemen

    The United Nations' human rights body has approved a compromise resolution calling for a group of "eminent international and regional experts" to...

    Sep 29