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  • Pope opens sex abuse summit amid outcry from survivors

    The Pope said that Catholics wanted action and not just condemnation of abuse.

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  • A global look at the Catholic Church's sex abuse problem

    Pope Francis' high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit calls attention to the crisis as a global problem

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  • Maine governor adds boost to major power line project

    Central Maine Power's package of incentives has won Democratic Gov. Janet Mills' support for a 145-mile transmission line to supply Canadian...

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  • Brigade of volunteers vow to bring aid to Venezuela's needy

    President Nicolas Maduro deploys missiles and infantryman to the border bracing for what he claims is a U.S. coup plot disguised as humanitarian aid,...

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  • Albanian opposition holds anti-govt rally, demands new vote

    Albanian opposition supporters have surrounded the parliament building and are demanding that the government resign, claiming it's corrupt and has...

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  • More than 150 IS militants handed over to Iraq from Syria

    Iraq has said it will take back ISIS members and their families.

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  • Verdict pending for Swiss veteran who joined anti-IS militia

    A Swiss military official says a verdict is expected Friday in the trial of a former sergeant accused of jeopardizing Switzerland's standing as a...

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  • Top centrist Netanyahu rivals unite for Israeli election run

    Israel's primary centrist challengers to Prime Minister Netanyahu announce they are joining forces ahead of April vote

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  • German parliament approves compromise in abortion dispute

    Germany's parliament has approved legislation to loosen, but not scrap, a ban on doctors "advertising" abortions

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  • Abuse victims: Italian law helps bishops dodge investigation

    Advocates for victims of pedophile priests are pushing for Italy to revise laws that help bishops dodge accountability

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  • Pope, bishops address sexual abuse crisis at summit

    Pope Francis said at a sex abuse prevention summit in Vatican City to "listen to the cry of the young people who want justice."

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  • Trump: US woman who joined Islamic State not allowed back

    The 24-year-old Alabama woman who spent four years as an "ISIS bride" now wants to return to the U.S., but President Trump is refusing to let that...

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  • The Latest: Russian, Venezuelan diplomats meet in Moscow

    A Russian deputy foreign minister has met with his Venezuelan counterpart as tensions roil the South American country

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  • Withdrawal of 1,000 Burundian soldiers from Somalia begins

    An official in Burundi says the withdrawal of 1,000 Burundian soldiers from the African Union regional force in Somalia has begun

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  • AP interview: Moldova president says country needs Russia

    Moldova's president says the former Soviet republic needs good relations with Russia, amid uncertainty about the future of the European Union

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  • Germany: Far right rebuked over 'natural selection' comment

    The deputy speaker of Germany's parliament has rebuked members of a far-right party for suggesting that women aren't fit to be lawmakers

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  • UN: Central African Republic peace deal may be turning point

    The U.N. envoy for Central African Republic says the peace agreement signed this month by the government and 14 rebel groups "could be a turning...

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  • Poland ruling party allegedly financed politics from charity

    Poland's opposition lawmakers are demanding explanations from the ruling party about reports that its regional chapter used donations for the Red...

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  • Venezuela's Maduro closes Brazil border to block aid entry

    Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the vast border with Brazil to be closed, just days before opposition leaders plan to bring in...

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  • Slovaks mark anniversary of slayings of journalist, fiancee

    Tens of thousands are rallying across Slovakia to mark one year since the slayings of an investigative reporter and his fiancee that shocked the...

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  • Kenya court set to rule on whether to scrap anti-gay laws

    Kenyan court to rule whether to scrap laws criminalizing same sex relations, could be important step for gays

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  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro orders border with Brazil closed amid political turmoil

    Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro orders border with Brazil closed amid political turmoil

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  • The Latest: Officials try to verify French IS member's death

    Two officials say they are trying to verify reports that Fabian Clain, a Frenchman who is one of Europe's most-wanted members of Islamic State group,...

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  • US embassy urges Russia to allow visit to jailed US investor

    Fund manager Michael Calvey was detained in Russia last week.

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  • Deadly Bangladesh fire shows lapses in development

    A fire in Bangladesh that killed at least 67 people in the oldest part of the capital shows the lapses in public safety that continue to plague the...

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  • Fire guts oldest part of Bangladeshi capital, killing dozens

    A devastating fire has raced through densely packed buildings in a centuries-old district in Bangladesh's capital, killing dozens

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  • The Latest: Over 100 migrants rescued at sea, sent to Libya

    Doctors Without Borders says 116 migrants have been "forcibly returned" to Libya after a day and a half at sea

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  • The Latest: Survivor calls pope meeting 'great, great thing'

    A Polish survivor of clergy sex abuse says a meeting with Pope Francis and the kiss the pontiff planted on his hand shows Francis' good will in...

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  • Defense asks for July 1 trial in Chinese scholar case

    Defense attorneys for a man accused of kidnapping and killing a University of Illinois scholar from China say they could be ready for a trial to begin...

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  • A commander with a US-backed Syrian force says twin bombings in market in eastern Syria have killed at least 14 people

    A commander with a US-backed Syrian force says twin bombings in market in eastern Syria have killed at least 14 people

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  • Tortoise thought to be extinct for 100 years discovered in Galapagos Islands

    The female Chelonoidis phantasticus was located on a remote island.

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  • Pope Francis holds historic summit at the Vatican

    Pope Francis gathers Bishops from around the world to discuss abuse scandals

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  • Armed group caught in Haiti returned to US

    The U.S. State Department says several men arrested in Haiti with weaponry have been returned to the United States before a scheduled a court hearing...

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  • The Latest: Death toll in Bangladesh fire lowered to 67

    Officials in Bangladesh have lowered the death toll from a fire in Dhaka to 67 from the 81 they previously reported

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  • Chechen religious leaders re-open landmark mosque in Syria

    Religious leaders of Russia's republic of Chechnya have inaugurated a re-opened landmark mosque in Syria's Homs, once the symbol of the rebellion...

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  • Mexico seizes more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine at sea

    Mexico's navy says it has seized more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine from a speedboat off the country's Pacific coast.

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  • Strong quake hits Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido

    There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

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  • Pakistan PM authorizes military response if India attacks

    Pakistan's prime minister has authorized the armed forces to "respond decisively and comprehensively to any aggression or misadventure" by neighboring...

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  • German police detain 2 in alleged Islamic extremist plot

    German prosecutors say a German-Moroccan couple has been arrested in central Germany on charges they were planning an Islamic extremist attack

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  • IMF and Ecuador reach agreement on $4.2 billion fund

    The International Monetary Fund's staff is agreeing to support Ecuador with $4.2 billion over the next three years

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  • Large supermoon spotted in Portugal

    The city of Lisbon witnessed a larger than usual supermoon in the sky on Tuesday.

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  • Polish activists pull down statue of priest in abuse protest

    Activists in Poland have pulled down a statue of a disgraced priest after allegations that he sexually abused minors, acting under cover of night to...

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  • Germany: Weapons firm ex-workers convicted over Mexico sales

    A German court has convicted two former employees of gun maker Heckler & Koch over their role in the delivery of weapons that ended up in troubled...

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  • Germany's Merkel offers Juncker solidarity in Hungary spat

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the head of the European Union's executive branch has her "full solidarity" in the face of a new Hungarian...

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  • Sudan government arrests opposition leaders ahead of protest

    Sudanese opposition party says more than 10 of their leaders have been arrested ahead of the latest day of protests urging President Omar al-Bashir to...

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  • European Central Bank concerned by economic slowdown

    Top officials of the European Central Bank worried at their last meeting that the slowdown in economic growth might be "deeper and more broad-based"...

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  • Vietnam, site of next Trump-Kim summit, a model for growth

    Vietnam, site of next Trump-Kim summit, offers model for transformation into export powerhouse

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  • UK Conservative lawmaker charged with falsifying expenses

    A lawmaker from Britain's governing Conservative Party has been charged with making false expenses claims

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