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  • Explosion in Iraq near Shiite mosque kills 3, wounds dozens

    Iraqi security officials say a motorcycle rigged with explosives went off near a Shiite mosque south of the capital Baghdad, killing three people and...

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  • Pakistan halts reporters' symbolic attempt to reach Kashmir

    Pakistani police have stopped hundreds of journalists from symbolically trying to cross the highly militarized border into Indian-controlled Kashmir

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  • Hong Kong police and protesters clash, ending violence lull

    Hong Kong protesters have thrown bricks and gasoline bombs at police, who responded with tear gas, as chaotic scenes returned to the summer-long...

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  • Lebanese president says Beirut will overcome economic crisis

    Lebanon's President Michel Aoun says his country will emerge from its difficult economic conditions by making decisions that boost production, hours...

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  • Storm traps 18 in Taiwan before heading to China

    A landslide triggered by a tropical storm has stranded 18 people in Taiwan as the storm heads for China's southeastern coast

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  • At global summit, Trump facing limits of go-it-alone stance

    President Donald Trump has arrived in France for an international summit with the leaders of the globe's economic powers as he confronts the...

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  • The Latest: A leaders' lunch for Trump, Macron in Biarritz

    President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are having a private lunch before the start of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz

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  • Corruption trial for Sudan's ex-president adjourns

    A Sudanese judicial official says the trial of autocratic former President Omar al-Bashir on corruption and money laundering charges has been...

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  • The Latest: Hong Kong protest winds down after clashes

    A large group of protesters has largely dispersed in Hong Kong after engaging in clashes with police for the first time in nearly two weeks

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  • Former Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dies at 66

    Former Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first-term Cabinet, has died in a New Delhi hospital after...

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  • Germany: Boy, 13, in stepfather's SUV sets off police chase

    A 13-year-old boy driving his stepfather's SUV set off a chase through the German city of Hannover that ended with the teenager driving into a police...

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  • Trump arrives at summit in France of world leaders amid anxieties over global economic slowdown, trade war

    Trump arrives at summit in France of world leaders amid anxieties over global economic slowdown, trade war

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  • India's Modi awarded UAE medal amid Kashmir crackdown

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received the United Arab Emirates' highest civilian honor during a visit to the oil-rich Gulf nation amid...

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  • Spanish ex-monarch Juan Carlos I to undergo heart operation

    Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, has been admitted to a hospital for a heart operation

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  • Austria prepares to repatriate IS supporter's children

    Austria is preparing to repatriate two sons of an Islamic State group supporter believed to have died in Syria after she headed there in 2014

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  • North Macedonia van crash kills migrant; 12 others injured

    North Macedonia police say a 20-year old migrant from Bangladesh was killed and 12 others injured when a van packed with migrants collided with a...

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  • Coffee growers help reforest Mozambique's Mount Gorongosa

    On the slopes of Mount Gorongosa, 400 Mozambican farmers are producing coffee that earns them cash incomes while at the same time restores the rapidly...

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  • Gunmen on motorcycles attack police in NW Pakistan, 2 killed

    Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles attacked a security post overnight in the northwestern Daraban Kalan area, killing two employees at a...

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  • Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says it is going to Turkey

    An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the U.S. amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington now lists its destination as a port in Turkey

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  • The Latest: Iran says it test fires 'new missile'

    The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says it has successfully test-fired a "new missile" amid growing tensions with the United States and...

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  • Trump talks Amazon fires with Brazilian president; army sent to fight blazes

    The Amazon rainforest is being devastated by mining and logging.

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  • 75 years later, US World War II veterans say: Never forget

    U.S. World War II veterans are back in Paris to celebrate the anniversary of the liberation of the French capital from the Nazis

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  • Poet, politicians to mark first enslaved Africans' arrival

    Gov. Ralph Northam and poet Nikki Giovanni will help to observe the arrival of enslaved Africans to what is now Virginia

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  • N. Korea test-fires missiles again after joint drills end

    North Korea has fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast for the seventh time in a month, after it vowed to remain...

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  • UN envoy challenges Malaysia's claim to near zero poverty

    A U.N. special rapporteur has challenged Malaysia's claim to have nearly ended poverty, saying an estimated one in six people in the Southeast Asian...

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  • Amnesty: Egypt should investigate death of inmate

    Rights group Amnesty International is urging Egyptian authorities to carry out an impartial investigation into the death of an inmate at Egypt's most...

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  • Tropical Storm Ivo weakening over cooler waters off Mexico

    Tropical Storm Ivo is losing strength off Mexico's Pacific coast as its moves northwestward over cooler waters and is expected to weaken into a...

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  • Chinese police say Simon Cheng, detained staffer at UK consulate in Hong Kong, has been released

    Chinese police say Simon Cheng, detained staffer at UK consulate in Hong Kong, has been released

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  • Indonesian rescuers search for 34 missing after ferry fire

    Rescuers are searching for 34 people reportedly missing after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia's main island of Java, killing three people

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  • Hong Kong protesters form human chains to call for democracy

    Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement have created human chains on both sides of the city's harbor, inspired by a historic protest 30 years...

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  • UN expert: No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions

    A member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar says there will be no long-term peace in the country and no return of...

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  • South Korea says North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles off its east coast

    South Korea says North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles off its east coast

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  • US homeland security chief tours Panama jungle migrant camp

    The acting U.S. homeland security secretary has visited a camp with hundreds of migrants who survived the perilous jungle border crossing from...

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  • Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei

    China's embassy in Canada says the U.S. is trying to suppress a Chinese tech giant with unwarranted charges in what it calls "typical bullying...

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  • IMF dispatches technical staff team to Argentina

    The International Monetary Fund is sending a technical team to Argentina on Saturday to discuss the policy plans of President Mauricio Macri's...

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  • Fitch Ratings downgrades Lebanon, S&P maintains its ratings

    Fitch Ratings has downgraded Lebanon's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to CCC from B-, while Standard & Poor's Global Ratings is...

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  • Tropical Storm Ivo forecast to weaken in Pacific off Mexico

    Forecasters say Tropical Storm Ivo should weaken gradually in the next couple of days as it moves through the Pacific Ocean parallel to Mexico's...

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  • Venezuela opposition leader vows to shun early election

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says that opponents of President Nicolás Maduro won't participate in any early legislative elections he calls

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  • Roman Catholic priest stabbed to death in Mexico border city

    A Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed to death in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas

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  • Leading presidential contender arrested in Tunisia

    A leading presidential candidate in Tunisia has been arrested and jailed on allegations of tax evasion and money laundering

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  • Putin orders Russia to respond after US missile test

    The U.S. recently tested a missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty.

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  • France opens Epstein-linked rape investigation

    The chief Paris prosecutor has announced that he is opening an investigation into the rape of minors and a raft of other charges linked to the Jeffrey...

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  • Biopsy confirms that Uruguay's president has lung cancer

    Biopsy confirms that Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez has lung cancer

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  • 'One of the largest cases of its kind': Feds indict 80 people in $6 million fraud

    Most of those involved are Nigerian nationals.

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  • Mexico sees jungle lakes evaporate amid lower rainfall

    Some of the mystical blue-green jungle lakes of the Lacandon jungle in southern Mexico are drying up this year, the result of what experts say is an...

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  • The Latest: Greece resuming migrant deportations to Turkey

    Greece says it is resuming deportations of migrants to Turkey in an effort to address an increase in arrivals over the summer months that have...

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  • 3 Israelis seriously wounded in West Bank explosion

    The Israeli military says it suspects the explosion to be a Palestinian attack.

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  • Boris Johnson prepares to take his place on world stage

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will get his first moment on the world stage in his new role at the G7 summit in France this weekend

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  • Rescue ship with 356 migrants allowed to land, demands Europe find solutions

    The Ocean Viking was operated by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders.

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  • Global fashion top players join forces in environmental pact

    Thirty-two leading companies in the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared goals under a "Fashion Pact" aimed at reducing...

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