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  • African leaders applaud Ethiopia prime minister for reforms

    Africa's leaders applauded Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for making substantial reforms in his country as they met to consider improvements to...

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  • Afghan official: Taliban target police checkpoint, killing 5

    An Afghan official says that at least five police officers have been killed when their checkpoint came under attack by insurgents in the northwestern...

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  • New president replaces autocratic leader in the Maldives

    Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has taken over as president of the Maldives following a fierce political discord caused by the autocratic rule of outgoing...

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  • Report: US-led airstrikes kill 40 in IS-held area of Syria

    A Syria war monitor and state media are reporting that at least 40 people, mostly civilians, have been killed by U.S.-led airstrikes on the last...

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  • Parade welcomes Dutch St Nicholas amid debate over helper

    A nationally televised parade has welcomed the Dutch version of Santa Claus to the Netherlands amid a fierce national debate about his helper "Black...

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  • Argentine submarine found at bottom of Atlantic after year of searching

    The submarine was lost on Nov. 15, 2017.

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  • Egyptian sentenced to death for killing Christian doctor

    Egypt has sentenced an alleged Islamic State supporter to death for stabbing and killing an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo

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  • Iraq's president visits Iran weeks after US renews sanctions

    Iraq's president is visiting Iran less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal

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  • Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't

    Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years

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  • Experts weigh the record of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal

    Experts consider the costs and benefits of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal, which has tried and convicted a total of three defendants over nine years...

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  • Abe visits Darwin shrine to Japanese war dead

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited a shrine in Darwin, Australia, commemorating the deaths of 80 Japanese submariners in waters near the...

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  • Argentina: Submarine missing a year found deep in Atlantic

    Argentina's navy has announced that searchers have found the missing submarine ARA San Juan deep in the Atlantic a year after it disappeared with 44...

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  • Migrants won't see armed US soldiers on border

    As thousands of migrants in caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on doorstep of US, they won't find armed soldiers standing guard

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  • The Latest: Pence meets Taiwan's delegation at APEC summit

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has met with the head of Taiwan's delegation to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting

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  • Argentina's navy says submarine missing for year found 800 meters (2,625 feet) down in Atlantic

    Argentina's navy says submarine missing for year found 800 meters (2,625 feet) down in Atlantic

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  • China's Xi: World faces choice of confrontation, cooperation

    China's president says the world faces a choice of cooperation or confrontation in a speech to a summit of leaders that is divided by tensions...

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  • A look at Americans who have been detained in North Korea

    A look at Americans who have been detained in North Korea

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  • North Korea's stable exchange rates confound economists

    Sign of stability? Evidence of a great sell-off? Amid harsh sanctions and massive trade imbalance, North Korea's stable exchange rates confound...

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  • Arms dealer convicted in LA of trying to buy, sell missiles

    Authorities say a black-market arms dealer who tried to buy anti-aircraft missiles and sell them to clients in the Middle East has been convicted of...

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  • Alleged Khashoggi killers discussed plot minutes before he arrived: Turkish officials

    Saudi officials continue to claim the murder wasn't sanctioned.

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  • Tijuana mayor: Caravan influx to last at least 6 months

    With about 3,000 Central American migrants now in the Mexican city of Tijuana, across from California, and thousands more expected, the city's mayor...

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  • Assange secretly charged by US authorities: Document

    A spokesman acknowledged the error on the court filing that brought the charges to light.

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  • UN chief reports significant results against rebels in Congo

    The U.N. peacekeeping chief says a joint military operation by U.N. and Congolese forces to rout rebels from their strongholds in the Ebola-hit...

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  • Groups protest plans for possible lease sale in Beaufort

    Environmental groups are protesting federal plans for a possible offshore petroleum lease sale in Alaska's Beaufort Sea

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  • Key facts about APEC host Papua New Guinea

    Papua New Guinea hosts leaders from Pacific Rim countries, including the United States, Russia and China, this weekend in a coming-out party for the...

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  • Colombia president snagged by protests, congressional revolt

    The early weeks for Colombia's new president have been beset by street protests and an unruly congress that has blocked some of his flagship...

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  • At Ibero-American summit, calls to address migration

    Leaders at a summit of Ibero-American nations are calling for development to alleviate waves of migrants fleeing poverty, violence, instability and...

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  • Social media eases worries for migrants, families back home

    Thousands of migrants in the caravan traveling through Mexico have relied on social media, text messages and brief phone calls to connect with worried...

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  • Free speech threat seen in prosecuting WikiLeaks' Assange

    Academics, civil rights lawyers and journalists are worried an attempt by the United States to put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange behind bars could...

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  • The Latest: US official: American on plane from North Korea

    A U.S. official says an American citizen detained last month by North Korea has been deported and is on a flight back to the United States

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  • North Korea deports American even as it boasts of new weapon

    North Korea to deport American detained as it boasts of new weapon

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  • Fugitive Macedonian ex-PM 'passed through' Montenegro

    Police in Montenegro say a fugitive former prime minister who fled Macedonia while facing prison for a corruption conviction entered Montenegro from...

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  • Cyclone kills 13 in southern India, 80K people evacuated

    A cyclone has hit the coast of southern India, killing at least 13 people, damaging homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents

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  • South American circus lions still unsettled in South Africa

    More than two dozen lions that were rescued from South American circuses and transferred to a South African big cat refuge could be on the move again...

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  • German chancellor visits scene of far-right protest

    Chancellor Angela Merkel visited a city that was shaken by violent, far-right protests three months ago and appealed Friday to Germans not to cross a...

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  • Correction: Argentina-G20-Security story

    Correction: Argentina-G20-Security story

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  • Roadside bomb in Pakistan's Karachi city kills 2, wounds 5

    Pakistani police say a roadside bomb in the southern port city of Karachi has killed at least two people and wounded five others

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  • Sri Lanka president rejects no-confidence on disputed PM

    A spokesman says Sri Lanka's president has refused to accept the no-confidence motion passed by parliament against the disputed prime minister Mahinda...

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  • Kids' postcards blanket Alpine glacier in eco-friendly stunt

    The Swiss development and cooperation agency and partners unfurled a "compound postcard" half the size of a football field on top of the threatened...

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  • Holocaust scholar sues group that said he 'slandered' Poland

    A prominent Holocaust researcher says he is suing a Polish organization for libel after it waged a public campaign last year accusing him of...

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  • Unexploded World War II bomb found in London park

    Police responded to reports of a suspicious object in Serpentine Lake.

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  • The Latest: Hamas abides by cease-fire, restrains protests

    Gaza's Hamas rulers are sticking to cease-fire with Israel by keeping border protests widely restrained

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  • Jury indicts Puerto Rico man accused of threatening CNN

    A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico has indicted a man accused of posting threatening messages on Twitter about wanting to bomb CNN

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  • Funeral prayers held in Istanbul for slain Saudi journalist

    Funeral prayers have been held in Istanbul for journalist Jamal Khashoggi more than a month after his slaying at the Saudi Consulate

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  • Brexit, Italy, trade: Risks piling up for Europe's economy

    Europe's long-running economic rebound is facing a mid-life crisis as it copes with worries including a potential debt explosion in Italy, an...

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  • Slain journalist Khashoggi remembered in funeral service as controversy continues

    More than a month ago, the writer was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate.

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  • Greece's Church says priests should keep state jobs

    Greece's Orthodox Church says priests should remain civil servants, rejecting part of a recent government offer to switch a payroll system for...

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  • Iraq resumes Kirkuk oil exports after yearlong pause

    Iraq's Oil Ministry says Iraq has resumed oil exports from its fields around Kirkuk, a year after the city was seized by federal forces from the...

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  • Judge in Italy orders trial for Berlusconi in escort case

    A judge in southern Italy has ordered that former three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi go on trial over a case involving women procured for his summer...

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  • VW wants to storm car market with cheaper electric model

    Automaker Volkswagen says it will invest 44 billion euros ($50 billion) in developing autonomous and electric cars and expand the appeal of...

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