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  • The Latest: North, South Korean leaders hold surprise summit

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have held a surprise summit, and for now the results of the meeting are a...

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  • Head of Chilean church's anti-abuse panel resigns

    The president of the Chilean Catholic Church's Commission for the Prevention of Abuses has resigned following allegations he was slow to investigate...

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  • Putin and Abe discuss Kuril Islands, WWII peace treaty

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have met for talks in Moscow that included resolving a dispute over four...

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  • Official tally shows big win for abortion rights in Ireland

    Irish voters overwhelmingly repealed a constitutional ban on abortions and supported having the country's parliament enact laws that reflect the...

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  • 7 bodies found in central Mexico

    Mexican officials in the central state of Guanajuato say seven bodies have been found in the city of Salamanca and they appear to be members of a...

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  • The Latest: Irish PM plans to move quickly on legal abortion

    The prime minister of Ireland says the repeal of a constitutional abortion ban is a historic day for his country and a great act of democracy

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  • Israeli soldier badly wounded in West Bank arrest raid dies

    The Israeli military says a soldier who was seriously wounded in action this week has died

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  • Venezuela government says Joshua Holt, wife are on flight to US after being freed in goodwill gesture

    Venezuela government says Joshua Holt, wife are on flight to US after being freed in goodwill gesture

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  • Mantel, Saunders up for best-ever Booker Prize accolade

    Britain's Hilary Mantel, Canada's Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the title of greatest-ever winner...

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  • Largely Roman Catholic Ireland votes 2-to-1 to repeal abortion ban

    The results followed a contentious and emotional campaign.

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  • US warns Syrian government not to advance on south

    The United States warned it would take "firm and appropriate measures" to protect a cease-fire in southern Syria if President Bashar Assad's forces...

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  • Irish election official confirms landslide victory for abortion rights advocates as Ireland repeals constitutional ban.

    Irish election official confirms landslide victory for abortion rights advocates as Ireland repeals constitutional ban.

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  • American jailed in Venezuela for 2 years to return home to US

    Joshua Holt has been jailed in Venezuela for two years.

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• May 26

  • Syria says it has named a constitutional committee

    Syria's Foreign Ministry says it has handed a list of the members it has named to a committee to review the national constitution to the Russian and...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Hundreds rally on Polish Mother's Day to support disabled

    Hundreds of people have gathered in Warsaw on Mother's Day in Poland.

    May 26

• May 26

  • Detained Iranian-British woman to face 'security charges'

    Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that an Iranian-British woman detained in Tehran is to face trial on "security charges."

    May 26

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  • WH to send team to Singapore to prep for possible Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting

    The team will "prepare should the summit take place," the White House said.

    May 26

• May 26

  • Iran detains professor over insulting Sunni Muslims

    Iran's state-run IRNA news agency is reporting that the country's authorities have detained a university professor over insulting Sunni Muslims

    May 26

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  • New problems, old fears ahead of Colombia's presidential election

    The peace process, once again, is front and center.

    May 26

• May 26

  • Bus service cut, flights canceled during strike in Brazil

    Bus and metro services in several Brazilian cities have been reduced and several flights have been cancelled as a truckers' strike enters its sixth...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Bangladesh detains 100 suspects in anti-drug crackdown

    Security officials in Bangladesh say they've raided an area in the capital as part of an anti-drug crackdown and detained at least 100 suspects

    May 26

• May 26

  • North and South Korean leaders hold surprise 2nd summit

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have met for the second time in a month to discuss peace commitments they...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Africa slowly turning to cremations, though long taboo

    Africa slowly turning to cremations, though long taboo; 'We don't have space' for burials

    May 26

• May 26

  • Albania opposition rallies, demands prime minister resign

    Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have held an anti-government protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama they accuse of...

    May 26

• May 26

  • 22 killed in Uganda when speeding bus strikes beer truck

    22 killed in Uganda when speeding bus strikes tractor, beer truck, police say; 14 hurt

    May 26

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  • Chinese official: Destroy terrorism 'breeding ground'

    China's top anti-terrorism official has called for closer international cooperation to "destroy the breeding ground of terrorism."

    May 26

• May 26

  • Burkina Faso resumes ties with China after Taiwan break

    The West African Nation of Burkina Faso has formally resumed diplomatic ties with China after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which now has just...

    May 26

• May 26

  • World War I battle of Belleau Wood was turning point for US

    The World War I battle of Belleau Wood pitted untested U.S. forces against the more-experienced Germans and became a defining moment in the conflict

    May 26

• May 26

  • The Latest: Oman airport to open Sunday after storm closure

    Oman's Salalah International Airport will reopen on Sunday after weathering Cyclone Mekunu

    May 26

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  • Pakistan's army summons former spy chief over book

    Pakistan's army has summoned a former spy chief over a book he co-authored with his former Indian counterpart

    May 26

• May 26

  • Spanish rescuers help 94 migrants crossing Mediterranean

    Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 94 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from African to European shores

    May 26

• May 26

  • Seoul: North and South Korean leaders meet again at border village to discuss U.S.-North Korean summit

    Seoul: North and South Korean leaders meet again at border village to discuss U.S.-North Korean summit

    May 26

• May 26

  • Struggling in parliament, German far right takes to streets

    A German far-right party that swept into parliament last year on a wave of anti-migrant sentiment is staging a march Sunday through the heart of...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Spain: Police arrest 66-year-old suspected bank robber

    Spanish police say they have arrested a 66-year-old man suspected of robbing nine different banks in Spain in the past month

    May 26

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  • Ethiopia releasing British national detained in 2014

    Ethiopia releasing British national detained in 2014 under infamous anti-terror law

    May 26

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  • Powerful cyclone lashes Oman, Yemen; 1 dead, 40 missing

    Cyclone Mekunu has blown into the Arabian Peninsula, drenching arid Oman and Yemen with rain and cutting off power lines

    May 26

• May 26

  • Cameroon sentences Anglophone activists on terror charges

    Cameroon military tribunal sentences Anglophone activists on terror, other charges

    May 26

• May 26

  • EU budget chief warns new Italian government on debt

    The European Union's budget commissioner says he hopes Italy's prospective new government will master a "big learning curve" and is cautioning that...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Turks feel pinch from currency slide ahead of polls

    Many in Turkey are feeling the pinch as the Turkish lira lost more than 20 percent of its value against the dollar since the start of the year.

    May 26

• May 26

  • Canceled summit raises stakes for China over North Korea

    President Donald Trump's withdrawal from his planned summit with North Korea raises the stakes for China to show that it can steer the North toward...

    May 26

• May 26

  • Declassified US cables link Uribe to Colombia drug cartels

    Newly declassified State Department cables show that when Alvaro Uribe was making his rise to Colombia's presidency in the 1990s, U.S. officials were...

    May 26

• May 26

  • India military says 4 militants killed near Kashmir frontier

    The Indian military says soldiers have killed at least four suspected militants in a gunbattle after they crossed into the Indian-controlled part of...

    May 26

• May 25

  • Colombia re-arrests Pablo Escobar's hitman for extortion

    Colombian police have re-arrested a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar as part of an investigation into extortion

    May 25

• May 25

  • 2 N. Korean diplomats behind US summit back-and-forth

    2 North Korean diplomats whose anti-US rhetoric led Trump to cancel summit with Kim Jong Un

    May 25

• May 25

  • Canadian investor backs away from Alaska mine project

    A Canadian company, courted as a potential partner in a copper-and-gold mine near a major salmon fishery in Alaska, has backed away from the project

    May 25

• May 25

  • The Latest: Mine official downplays impact of failed deal

    Developers of a proposed copper-and-gold mine near a world-class salmon fishery in Alaska are downplaying the impact after a deal with a potential...

    May 25

• May 25

  • Brazil president says striking truckers could be removed

    Brazilian President Michel Temer has threatened the use of force if striking truckers don't end their standoff and get off the roads

    May 25

• May 25

  • Exit polls suggest Irish voters have repealed abortion ban

    Ireland referendum could lift strict ban on abortion after emotional debate

    May 25

• May 25

  • Canadian police seek 2 after bomb wounds 15 at restaurant

    Canadian police are hunting for two people after an explosion caused by a homemade bomb ripped through an Indian restaurant at a mall in the Toronto...

    May 25

• May 25

  • Marine who died in WWII buried in Massachusetts

    A decorated U.S. Marine killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II has finally been laid to rest in his home state of Massachusetts

    May 25