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  • French rail routes disrupted by strike over train security

    A wildcat strike is disrupting train travel around France, as railway workers demand better security after a recent accident

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  • The Latest: Gibraltar govt wins re-election as Brexit looms

    Official election results in Gibraltar, a speck of British territory on Spain's southern tip, show that an alliance of socialists and liberals has won...

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  • Johnson returns to London to drum up support for Brexit deal

    After winning support of European Union leaders for his new Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is back in London to try to secure backing from...

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  • EU leaders turn focus to climate, budget issues

    After agreeing on terms for a new Brexit deal, European Union leaders are meeting again to discuss other thorny issues, including the bloc's budget...

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  • Correction: South Sudan-Fragile Peace story

    Correction: South Sudan-Fragile Peace story

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  • France: Person arrested in Sept. 11-style attack threat

    One person is in French custody on preliminary terrorism charges after threatening a Sept. 11-style plane hijacking and attack

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  • New protests planned as marches converge in Catalonia

    The Catalan regional capital is bracing for a fifth day of protests over the conviction of a dozen Catalan independence leaders

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  • Giorgia Meloni is rising star on Italy's far-right stage

    Politically battered Matteo Salvini and ally Giorgia Meloni prepare for a weekend March on Rome to rally the right-wing after Salvini's ouster from...

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  • No agreement among EU leaders on launching membership talks

    EU leaders have broken off talks without agreement on whether to launch membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, despite warnings that...

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  • Pakistan blacklists, expels global journalists' group leader

    Pakistan has expelled the Asia coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists

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  • Gun battles sweep Culiacan after troops locate Chapo's son

    An intense gunfight with heavy weapons and burning vehicles blocking roads has paralyzed the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state after security forces...

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  • China's economic slowdown deepens, weighing on global growth

    China's quarterly economic growth sinks to 26-year low amid tariff war with Washington, adding to deepening slump that weighs on global growth

    Oct 18

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

    AP PHOTOS: Ecuador's president cancels austerity package, thousands trek up a Venezuelan mountainside for rituals, and a revered Cuban ballerina dies

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  • Trudeau could lose power in Canada's election Monday

    Once a rock star on the global stage, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could lose office in national elections in Canada on Monday

    Oct 18

• Oct 17

  • AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asia

    AP Photos: India prepares for Diwali, typhoon ravages Japan, Himalayan autumn, Hong Kong protests

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Pakistan silences army's critics with raids, terror charges

    A dozen plainclothes Pakistani security forces tried to raid the former home of a human rights activist who recently fled to the United States seeking...

    Oct 17

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  • Maldives investigates activist group for 'slandering Islam'

    Head of a Maldivian activist group says police have contacted her for an investigation into a report published by her organization which is purported...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Russia: 3 US diplomats stopped near explosion area

    Russia's foreign ministry says police stopped three American diplomats trying to enter an area of northern Russia where a secrecy-shrouded explosion...

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• Oct 17

  • Protests spread across Lebanon over proposed new taxes

    Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in central Beirut early Friday after they tried to push through security...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Apples rot on trees as Kashmir strife inflicts economic pain

    Apples are rotting and falling off the trees as the strife in Indian-controlled Kashmir strife inflicts more economic pain

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Mexico breaks ground on new airport project outside capital

    Mexico has broken ground to supplement the capital's overtaxed international airport and as an alternative to another one that was scrapped last year...

    Oct 17

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  • Protesters bar Haiti's president from visiting historic site

    Haiti's embattled president has been forced to hold a private ceremony amid heavy security to honor one of the country's founding fathers during a...

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• Oct 17

  • Bystanders help rescue woman who fell onto subway tracks

    Commuters on a subway platform in Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to the rescue of a woman who was knocked into the path of an oncoming train.

    Oct 17

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  • The Latest: Australia won't retrieve refugees in cease-fire

    Australia has ruled out retrieving dozens of Australian women and children from refugee camps during the cease-fire in Syria

    Oct 17

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  • New Zealand sale announcement highlights TV's struggles

    New Zealand broadcaster MediaWorks has announced it plans to sell its struggling television business, leaving hundreds of workers wondering if they...

    Oct 17

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  • As Britain battles to leave the EU, others struggle to join

    As Britain battles to leave the European Union, two countries from the Balkans are struggling to be allowed in despite warnings that turning them away...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Riots darken Catalan separatist dream of peaceful secession

    The separatist movement in northeastern Spain has been rocked by violent outbursts from its most radical elements after the sentencing of several...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Crude oil reaches tourist beach in the 'Brazilian Caribbean'

    Crude oil contaminating the northeastern coast of Brazil reached the town of Maragogi, one of the region's main tourist beaches

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • The Latest: Catalan separatists battle police in Barcelona

    Catalan separatists are clashing with police and burning trash bins in central Barcelona for a fourth consecutive night, angry at the long jail...

    Oct 17

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  • Syrian Kurdish-led force says it will abide by cease-fire

    The commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria says they will abide by a cease-fire agreement announced in Turkey by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence

    Oct 17

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  • Russia says US diplomats approached missile test site, location of radioactive blast

    Three U.S. diplomats were pulled off a train in Russia's far north.

    Oct 17

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  • Soldiers ordered be re-arrested in army massacre: Mexican court

    A court in Mexico has ordered the re-arrest of seven soldiers charged with abuse of authority for a 2014 army massacre

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • UK and EU reach Brexit deal; still needs ratification

    The UK Parliament still needs to approve the deal.

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Former Nazi SS guard, 93, going on trial in Hamburg

    A 93-year-old former SS private is on trial in Hamburg, Germany on 5,230 counts of being an accessory to murder, accused of helping the Nazis'...

    Oct 17

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  • The commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria tells Kurdish TV they will abide by a cease-fire agreement

    The commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria tells Kurdish TV they will abide by a cease-fire agreement

    Oct 17

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  • Police arrest 2nd suspect in case of isolated Dutch family

    Dutch police have arrested a second suspect in the case of a group of people found earlier this week living on a farm, where they had possibly been...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • The Latest: EU lawmakers might not OK Brexit deal by Oct. 31

    The European Parliament's chief Brexit official says the EU legislature will carefully examine any divorce deal for Britain before it gives its...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Teachers strike, Brexit handshake, accused Nazi: World in Photos, Oct. 17, 2019

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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• Oct 17

  • Man detained in case of family hidden for 9 years

    The family had apparently been living in a small room in a farmhouse outside a small Dutch town town, perhaps since 2010, police said.

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• Oct 17

  • Family found mysteriously living in secret room for 9 years

    “We understand that everyone still has many questions," says local police.

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • UK and EU agree to Brexit deal, PM says

    The United Kingdom and European Union have agreed on a new Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday morning.

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  • Banksy's new online store vets potential buyers with a question

    The unidentified artist has opened Gross Domestic Product.

    Oct 17

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  • Effects of conflict on families and children in Syria

    Amjad Yamin of "Save the Children" talks about displaced children in the region and what they are experiencing during the conflict.

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  • AMLO lauds departure of oil union chief, who defends record

    Mexico's president is celebrating the resignation of the longtime head of the country's oil workers union, who ruled the syndicate for nearly three...

    Oct 17

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  • Sightings of extinct Tasmanian tiger reported: Australian government

    The animal was presumed extinct after the last one in captivity died in 1936.

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  • Life and death in Syria as US troops withdraw: 'We don't trust America anymore'

    8-year-old Sara lost her brother and her leg in an artillery blast.

    Oct 17

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  • British PM Boris Johnson says he's confident the UK Parliament will vote for his Brexit deal on Saturday

    British PM Boris Johnson says he's confident the UK Parliament will vote for his Brexit deal on Saturday

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Saturday drama: Brexit battle to be decided in UK Parliament

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost every important vote in Parliament, and he faces a titanic struggle when he puts his new Brexit proposal...

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  • UK's Prince William, Kate tour Pakistani cultural hub Lahore

    Britain's Prince William and wife Kate tour Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, where they undertook an emotional visit to a cancer...

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  • Putin directs exercise of Russian nuclear forces

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen sweeping war games carried out by his nation's strategic nuclear forces

    Oct 17