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  • New East Timor government marred by corruption allegations

    East Timor's president has refused to swear in 11 Cabinet ministers because of corruption investigations in a rocky beginning for a new government...

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  • Service celebrates UK's 'Windrush generation' from Caribbean

    Prime Minister Theresa May has joined more than 2,000 people at London's Westminster Abbey to celebrate the contribution of immigrants from the...

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  • Airbus threatens to leave Britain in case of no-deal Brexit

    Aviation giant airbus has threatened to leave Britain if the country fails to secure a withdrawal deal on leaving the European Union

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  • Fatal fight sets off anti-India protests, clashes in Kashmir

    Police say at least four rebels, a police official and a civilian were killed during a gunbattle in disputed Kashmir, triggering anti-India protests...

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  • OPEC discussing oil output increase to contain energy costs

    The countries of the OPEC oil cartel are discussing raising their production by about 1 million barrels a day at a meeting Friday. The decision could...

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  • Romania: Party rallies around leader convicted of graft

    Leaders of Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party are rallying around their powerful leader after he was handed a 3½-year jail sentence for abuse of...

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  • Greece heads for bailout exit after deal with creditors

    Greece's prime minister has pledged to stick to the path of reforms and balanced budgets, hours after international creditors announced new debt...

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  • Belgian gets life on cocaine smuggling charges in Cambodia

    A Cambodian court has sentenced a Belgian man to life in prison on charges of smuggling cocaine into the country

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  • Spanish prosecutors appeal against men's release in sex case

    Spanish prosecutors are filing an appeal against a court decision granting bail to five men acquitted of gang rape and convicted instead on a lesser...

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  • Ethiopia unblocks more than 200 websites as reforms continue

    Ethiopia unblocks more than 200 websites as reforms continue, citing freedom of expression

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  • UN expert slams US on poverty, quitting global rights body

    A human rights expert is criticizing the United States for failing to tackle poverty, days after Washington quit the United Nations body that...

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  • South Sudan peace deal attempt fails as Kiir rejects Machar

    South Sudan peace deal attempt fails as Kiir rejects rival Machar; 'We have had enough of him'

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  • Rival Koreas agree to August reunions of war-split families

    North and South Korea have agreed to hold temporary reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War as they boost reconciliation efforts amid a...

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  • Activists: Syrian government steps up offensive in southwest

    Syrian activists: Government forces keep up pressure on strategic southwest, drop barrel bombs on rebel-held areas

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  • Businessman linked to slain reporter held in separate case

    A controversial businessman linked to a slain investigative journalist in Slovakia has been detained in a separate case of forgery against a...

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  • Catalan secessionists cut formal ties with Spanish monarchy

    Catalonia's pro-independence political leaders are snubbing the Spanish king in their latest public challenge to rule from Madrid

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  • EU retaliatory tariffs on raft of US goods go into force

    The European Union is enforcing tariffs on $3.4 billion in U.S. products as of Friday in retaliation to duties the Trump administration has put on...

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  • Polish local police chief fired over colleague's death

    Poland's Interior Ministry says a regional police chief and one of his deputies have been fired after they attended a party during which a senior...

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  • German chancellor says migration meeting a 'first exchange'

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel says an upcoming meeting of European leaders in Brussels would be a "first exchange" toward finding solutions and...

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  • Russia says evidence of Syria chemical attacks was faked

    Russia says the U.S. and its allies have relied on fabricated evidence to accuse the Syrian government of launching chemical attacks against civilians

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  • Spanish court lifts ban on book about drug trafficking

    A Madrid court has lifted a ban on the sale of a book that investigates drug trafficking in Spain, saying that it comes within laws on the right to...

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  • Cyprus, Israel, Greece pledge deeper military ties

    The defense ministers of Cyprus, Israel and Greece have pledged to forge deeper military ties in order to better counter common threats and to help...

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  • A look at dual elections in Turkey testing Erdogan's power

    A look at the dual elections in Turkey testing Erdogan's power

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  • AP Explains: Reunions between Korean families divided by war

    AP Explains: Reunions between families divided by 1950-53 Korean War are highly emotional and diplomatically sensitive

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  • Reporter calls out Italian minister over police protection

    An anti-mafia journalist under police protection has lashed out at Italy's hard-line interior minister after insinuating that not everyone who...

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  • Italy's interior minister says Malta should take rescue boat

    Italy's interior minister says Malta should allow a Dutch-flagged rescue ship with 224 migrants to make port there because the ship is now in Maltese...

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  • Rival Koreas agree to reunions of war-separated families

    North and South Korea have agreed to hold temporary reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War in August as they boost reconciliation...

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  • The Latest: 2 OSCE observers refused entry to Turkey

    A European security and rights group says it "deplores" the denial by Turkey of two members of its observer mission for the upcoming Turkish...

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  • Seoul says rival Koreas agree to hold reunions of war-separated families on Aug. 20-26

    Seoul says rival Koreas agree to hold reunions of war-separated families on Aug. 20-26

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  • The Latest: Iran says OPEC won't take direction from Trump

    Iran's oil minister is insisting that OPEC's place is not to take instructions from U.S. President Donald Trump but is leaving open Tehran's position...

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  • 'He cried and hugged me': Brazilian still separated from son

    A Brazilian man who was detained at the US-Mexico border was separated from his 9-year-old son and has not seen him in 26 days

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  • Pakistan's former dictator Musharraf resigns from his party

    Pakistan's ex-dictator Musharraf resigns from party, signals no plans to return home or get involved in July elections

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  • Cheery and careworn, izbas epitomize Russians' pastoral soul

    Behind the modern glitz of the World Cup are Russia's charming wooden houses of bygone days

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  • Turkey heads to landmark presidential, parliamentary vote

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has never lost an election, is taking a gamble that will consolidate his hold on power in Turkey if he emerges...

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  • Afghan official says16 militia killed in Taliban attack

    An Afghan official says Taliban fighters killed 16 militia loyal to the government in an early morning ambush in northern Badghis province

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  • US imposes visa bans on several unnamed Congo officials

    US imposes visa bans on several unnamed Congo officials over 'significant corruption'

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  • Malaysia names new central bank governor

    Malaysia has named an experienced former central bank official, Nor Shamsiah Mohamad Yunus, as the new central bank governor

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  • The Latest: German business warns UK risks disorderly Brexit

    Germany's main business lobby group is warning that Britain is on course for a "disorderly Brexit" and urging its government to stop playing for time.

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  • UN dismayed by reports of 220 migrants drowning off Libya

    UN refugee agency says survivors have reported that some 220 migrants drowned off Libya in recent days

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  • UN: Basic human rights being 'chiseled away' in Venezuela

    A U.N. report says the rule of law in Venezuela is quickly eroding as officials allow government security forces to kill citizens without any apparent...

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  • In India, rats have a $19,000 meal

    Police say at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and ate more than $19,000 in currency

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  • Italy vows to expel far more migrants, but it won't be easy

    After blocking rescue boats from bringing more asylum-seekers to Italy, the nation's new leaders are vowing to expel many more migrants already here

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  • Indonesia court sentences cleric behind attacks to death

    An Indonesian court has sentenced radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman to death for ordering Islamic State group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks...

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  • South Sudan peace deal attempt fails as Kiir rejects rival Machar; 'We have had enough of him'

    South Sudan peace deal attempt fails as Kiir rejects rival Machar; 'We have had enough of him'

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  • Heavy summer storm in Poland kills a town's deputy mayor

    Polish officials say the deputy mayor of a town in central Poland was killed by a tree branch that was toppled by a heavy summer storm

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  • UK police arrest man after he claims to have a bomb

    British Transport Police say they have detained a man after he claimed to have a bomb on the rail tracks at Charing Cross Station in London

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  • Turkey detains 14 suspected IS militants in raids

    Turkey's state-run news agency says police have rounded up 14 suspected Islamic State militants in simultaneous raids in the capital Ankara

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  • German EU commissioner warns Merkel allies in migration spat

    Germany's representative on the European Union's executive is warning Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies against escalating a conflict over...

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  • Pakistani rights activist's home ransacked; laptops taken

    Pakistani rights activist's home ransacked, laptops and travel documents seized amid fears of escalating media crackdown

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  • After giving birth, New Zealand leader craves mac-n-cheese

    New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is regaining her strength with macaroni and cheese and plans to spend at least one more night in an...

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