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Bank of England widely expected to hold interest rates despite big US Fed cut

The Bank of England is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged later Thursday despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than four years ago
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FILE - The Bank of England is pictured in London, on Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
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Fruit and seafood are the latest front in escalating Taiwan-China tensions

Taiwan says China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violate trade rules, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which has vowed to annex Taiwan by force
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FILE - People buy fruit at a stall in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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Spain arrests suspect in February speedboat crash that killed 2 police officers

Spanish authorities arrested a 32-year-old man for the death of two police officers in February when a speedboat suspected to belong to drug smugglers smashed into their patrol craft, Spain’s Civil Guard said Thursday
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Lawyer for American charged in Japan's trial of ex-Nissan exec Ghosn appeals for 'justice'

The six-year-old criminal case of Greg Kelly, an American ensnared in the scandal of Nissan’s former boss Carlos Ghosn has turned a page in a Japanese court, with the judge promising a verdict in February
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FILE - Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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Malaysian police detain CEO and other leaders of Islamic group as probe into child sex abuse widens

Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group
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The headquarters of Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) in Rawang is seen on the outskirts of Selangor state, Malaysia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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First person convicted under Hong Kong's new security law is sentenced to 14 months in prison

The first person convicted under a tough new Hong Kong national security law has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan
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FILE - A protestor holds a flag that reads: "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times" at a rally in Hong Kong, on Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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At least 1000 people evacuated as flooding hits northern Italy

About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported Thursday
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The Thai zoo home to baby hippo and internet sensation Moo Deng is patenting the pygmy

Only a month after the adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally
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Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng walks at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel turns its focus north toward Lebanon and Hezbollah

Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon
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A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is placed next to bouquets of flowers and Lebanese flag in front of the Lebanese Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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The Vatican is set to rule on reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian shrine

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin Mary at an otherwise unremarkable village in southern Bosnia
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Pilgrims say their prayers inside the St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
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Sri Lanka's presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom

Sri Lankans who usually vote along religious and ethnic lines will be keeping another factor in mind when they vote Saturday on a new president
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A man sits next to election posters of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa as he gets a shave from a roadside barber in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Vietnamese real estate tycoon, already sentenced to death for fraud, faces trial on new charges

Vietnamese state media say the second trial for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday
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Business woman Truong My Lan, a real estate tycoon sentenced to death for financial fraud, attends her second trial in Vietnam's largest fraud case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Thanh Tung/VnExpress via AP)
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Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, a...
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In this photo provided by Robert Calabretta, right, he and and his biological father, Lee Sung-soo, stand together for a photo while on a visit in Daegu, South Korea, in August of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Robert Calabretta via AP)
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Rampant adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, a...
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Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
September 19

Why is Congo struggling to contain mpox?

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard
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A worker carries a shovel at the hospital in Kamituga, in South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Sept. 4, 2024. South Kivu is considered the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of mpox. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency
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A worker carries a shovel at the hospital in Kamituga, in South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Sept. 4, 2024. South Kivu is considered the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of mpox. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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Colombia suspends peace talks with ELN rebel group after a deadly attack on the military

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20
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FILE - Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks after signing a law banning bullfighting, in La Plaza Santa Maria, Bogota, Colombia, on July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
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A 10-year-old Japanese student stabbed near his school in China has died

Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures
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Chinese authorities inspect the scene of a stabbing at the Shenzhen Japanese School in Shenzhen, China Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, after a 10-year-old Japanese student was attacked by a man. (Kyodo News via AP)
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North Korea's Kim is bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing 2 types of missiles

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats
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A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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20 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials

Israel was responsible for the pagers blowing up, sources told ABC News.
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People react after a reported explosion occurred during the funeral of those killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 18, 2024.
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Reporter's Notebook: A walkie-talkie exploded at a funeral in Lebanon. Chaos ensued.

Another round of blasts occurred as ABC News was covering a funeral.
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People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday's pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024.
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Mars 'spiders' were a decades-old mystery. Now NASA says they recreated them in a lab

The five-year study was conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region. As the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin to emerge from the landscape.
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What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

Israel's operation was six to 12 months in the making, a source told ABC News.
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Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access

Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court
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FILE - A view of a laptop shows the Twitter sign-in page with their logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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Lawyers question whether a drugged French woman was truly unconscious during alleged rapes

Lawyers for some of the men accused of raping an unconscious French woman who had been drugged by her husband have asked her about her habits, personality and sex life, and even questioned whether she was truly unconscious during the encounters
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Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, where her ex-husband admitted in court that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious. (AP Photo/Diane Jantet)
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Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?

The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before
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Mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed Mahdi, son of Hezbollah legislator Ali Ammar, who was killed Tuesday after his handheld pager exploded, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Haiti creates a provisional electoral council to prepare for the first elections since 2016

Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council
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People carry an empty coffin past a street food vendor into the shop that is buying it to repair and sell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico's electric grid

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist
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FILE - People march along Las Americas Highway to protest the LUMA Energy company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
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Haiti creates provisional electoral council as country prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016

Haiti creates provisional electoral council as country prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016
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Venezuela’s opposition ex-candidate says he was forced to sign letter that effectively admits defeat

Venezuela’s former opposition candidate says he was coerced into signing a letter effectively recognizing his defeat in July’s presidential election
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FILE - Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves to supporters during a political event at a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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Mexican president calls on ex-security secretary to show proof of alleged cartel ties

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the p...
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Outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves after delivering his last State of the Union at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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Dominican and US officials crack down on regional drug trafficking ring

Officials from the U.S. and the Dominican Republic have arrested nearly a dozen suspects after they launched a joint operation to crack down on a regional drug trafficking ring
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A rockfall triggered by a rainstorm kills a woman hiker in Greece

Greek authorities say a rockfall triggered by a sudden rainstorm has fatally injured a hiker in a popular national park on the island of Crete
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Moscow will support Islamabad's bid to join BRICS, says Russian deputy prime minister

Russia's deputy prime minister says Moscow will support Islamabad’s bid to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies
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AP PHOTOS: Germany springs to life in vivid scenes of nature

As the sun bleeds into daylight or fades toward night, AP photographer Michael Probst is often on the hunt for serene scenes near his home in Frankfurt, Germany that evoke a sense of wonder. Nature comes alive in the vibrant yellow of a pollen-laden bee approaching a sunflower or a fuzzy-headed gosling poking from the plumage on its mother’s back. Two toothy Icelandic horses with shaggy manes playfully bite each other while their large eyes seem fixed on the camera lens. Probst, who has worked for The Associated Press for 30 years, focused on finding a different perspective on life once his three children were grown up and he could work in the early or late hours of the day when the light is best. “I thought there must be more in news photography than soccer, business and government press conferences,” Probst said. “With all the trouble in the world, I wanted to show the nice things.” Among the many images he’s captured when not on traditional assignments: a wild boar bounds...
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Power poles tower over a rape field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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At least 9 more dead as new explosions rock Lebanon

More than 30 ambulances are providing treatment and evacuations to wounded people in Lebanon on Wednesday, the Lebanese Red Cross said.
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VIDEO: At least 9 more dead as new explosions rock Lebanon
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Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine

The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries
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FILE - Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)
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A Hungarian company is linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

The company linked to the manufacture of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria is based in a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital
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Előd Novak, a member of the National Assembly of Hungary, talks to the local media in front of a house where a Hungarian company that allegedly manufactured pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria, is headquartered in Budapest Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)
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Unidentified gunmen kill high-ranking migration official in one of Haiti's biggest cities

A high-ranking official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration has been killed in the north coastal city of Cap-Haitien
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Teachers in Belarus are targeted for links with 'extremist' group, says rights group

A respected human rights organization in Belarus says dozens of teachers have been detained or interrogated by authorities as part of the country’s wide-ranging crackdown on dissent
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Israeli defense minister declares start of "new phase" of war as army turns attention to northern front with Lebanon

Israeli defense minister declares start of "new phase" of war as army turns attention to northern front with Lebanon
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As Trump seeks Polish-American votes, he and the Polish president are due to be at the same event

Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event this Sunday in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in this year’s presidential election, as Trump seeks to tap into the Polish-American vote
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FILE - Then-President Donald Trump meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval Office of the White House, June 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Inside Israel’s incarceration of Palestinians since Oct. 7 attack

ABC News gathered testimonies alleging widespread detainee abuse.
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A protester waves the Israeli national flag in support of soldiers being questioned for detainee abuse, outside of the Sde Teiman military base, July 29, 2024.
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Nigeria warns of possible flooding as Cameroon releases water from dam

Nigeria has warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon
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Houses and buildings are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Musa Ajit Borno)
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Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut

Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
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What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

Javed Ali, former senior director for counterterrorism on the White House National Security Council, says this plan is “opening up Pandora’s box” for terrorist groups.
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VIDEO: What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
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Lebanon's health ministry says over 100 wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country

Lebanon's health ministry says over 100 wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country
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A Hezbollah official says walkie-talkies used by the group exploded as part of blasts heard across Beirut

A Hezbollah official says walkie-talkies used by the group exploded as part of blasts heard across Beirut
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Multiple explosions heard in Beirut during funeral for Hezbollah members and child killed by exploding pagers

Multiple explosions heard in Beirut during funeral for Hezbollah members and child killed by exploding pagers
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Thailand will indict ex-security personnel over the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in 2004

Prosecutors in Thailand say eight former security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim men arrested 20 years ago will be indicted on murder charges
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FILE - Thai-Muslim rioters lie on the ground after they were arrested and forced to take off their shirts by Thai security forces after rioting at Takbai district of Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, Oct. 25, 2004. (AP Photo, File)