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  • Rohingya refugee camp quiet after Bangladesh postpone return

    Officials postponed plans to repatriate Rohingya after no-one volunteered to go.

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  • Disputed Sri Lankan PM faces 2nd no-confidence motion

    Pandemonium has reigned in Sri Lanka's Parliament as lawmakers supporting disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books and chairs to try to...

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  • Spat over WWII brothels shows Japan's trouble in facing past

    A journalist close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has defended her view that Korean women who were sent to Japanese wartime military brothels...

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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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  • French minister warns of new Cold War from US/China tensions

    French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned that the trade dispute between the United States and China could escalate into a fresh Cold War.

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  • Dutch protesters planning demos for and against Black Pete

    Rival protesters are planning to stage demonstrations at a nationally televised parade marking the start of the Dutch festive season

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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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  • Spain targets drug-smuggling hub with anti-crime measures

    Spain's government is improving security in a notorious drug-running hotspot on its southern coast, in the area around Gibraltar

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  • Report: Russia has access to UK visa processing

    Investigative group Bellingcat and Russian website 'The Insider' claim Russian intelligence has infiltrated the computer infrastructure of a company...

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  • N.Korea official urges Japan to apologize over forced labor

    A senior North Korean official on a visit to South Korea has called for Japan to apologize for the wartime forced labor of thousands of Koreans

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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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  • 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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  • Nations approve overhaul of international system of measurements; new definitions for the kilogram and other key units

    Nations approve overhaul of international system of measurements; new definitions for the kilogram and other key units

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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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  • Turkish police detain 12 academics, activists in raids

    The raids are part of an investigation into a group headed by a jailed activist.

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  • Russian army: Nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees returned home

    Russian military says nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their country in recent months

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  • Nurse in Italy suspected of killing her 2 kids, then herself

    A nurse in Italy is suspected of having killed her two young children, ages 7 and 9, by lethal injection, then taking her own life

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  • German far right party leader defends questioned donations

    A leader of a far-right party in Germany is defending herself against suggestions she might have accepted campaign donations that were illegal

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  • UK's embattled prime minister fights for her job amid mounting Brexit rebellion

    Theresa May's fighting for her political life "with every fiber of [her] being."

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  • The Latest: Last Khmer Rouge leaders get life sentences

    The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison

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  • Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms

    An international tribunal has convicted the last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia in a reign of terror in the 1970s, and...

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  • French Polynesian president acknowledges nuclear test lies

    French Polynesia's president says leaders in France's collectivity of islands in the South Pacific lied to the population over the dangers of nuclear...

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  • Eurozone central banker suggests rates could stay low longer

    The head of the European Central Bank indicated a first interest rate increase could be postponed if unexpected trouble strikes the 19 countries that...

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  • Hong Kong economy cools as trade tension mounts

    Hong Kong's economic growth slows to 2-year low as US-Chinese trade tension mounts

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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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  • Bavarian party leader Seehofer to step down in January

    The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavaria-only conservative ally says he will step down from the post early next year

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  • Cyclone damages homes, kills 11 in southern India

    A cyclone has hit the coast of southern India, killing at least 11 people, damaging homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents

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  • Japan's Abe lays wreath in Australia city bombed in WWII

    Shinzo Abe has become the first prime minister of Japan to visit Darwin since the northern Australian city was bombed by Japanese forces in World War...

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  • Ex-minister Lieberman: Israel-Hamas truce a 'capitulation'

    Avigdor Lieberman, who quit over the cease-fire, would've opted for airstrikes.

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  • More than 40 killed in bus accident in Zimbabwe

    At least 20 more were injured, some with severe burns, in the accident Thursday.

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  • Major hotels in China inspected after room cleaning expose

    The Chinese tourism ministry has asked Beijing, Shanghai and 3 provinces to investigate room cleaning at 14 major hotels after video showed...

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  • Migrants streaming into Tijuana, but now face long stay

    Nearly 2,000 caravan migrants have reached the U.S. border in Mexico's northwestern corner, with more coming in a steady trickle of buses

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  • Papua New Guinea's betel high defies control, convention

    A normally ubiquitous sight in Papua New Guinea's capital is men, women and children chewing betel nut combined with slaked lime and mustard bean,...

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  • German chancellor visiting scene of far-right violence

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to Chemnitz to talk with residents of the eastern city three months after it was the scene of violent...

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

    AP Photos: Japan's emperor greeted guests at an autumn garden party; world leaders attend ASEAN and APEC summits; farmers tend to fields

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  • Police say a bus accident in Zimbabwe has killed more than 40 people and injured at least 20, some with severe burns

    Police say a bus accident in Zimbabwe has killed more than 40 people and injured at least 20, some with severe burns

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  • North Korea to deport American it detained for illegal entry

    The American was detained one month ago for illegally entering the country.

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  • Australia refers India to WTO over sugar cane subsidies

    Australia is referring India to the World Trade Organization over subsidies it pays its sugar cane farmers, which Australia says creates a surplus...

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  • David Hockney painting fetches $90M in record-setting auction

    "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" was up for auction Thursday.

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  • North Korea says it will deport an American citizen it recently detained for illegal entry

    North Korea says it will deport an American citizen it recently detained for illegal entry

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  • With new Egypt capital being built, what becomes of Cairo?

    The unnamed new capital city is expected to attract well-heeled residents.

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  • North Korea tests new weapon amid stalled nuclear diplomacy

    North Korea tests 'newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon' amid stalled diplomatic efforts

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

    AP PHOTOS: Vanguard of migrant caravan arrives at border, Colombian officials grapple with growing numbers of Venezuelans, Argentina gets a new...

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  • Imelda Marcos posts bail for graft conviction in Philippines

    Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has posted a $7,400 bail for provisional liberty after she was found guilty of graft and ordered imprisoned

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  • The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison

    The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison

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  • Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of genocide for killings during group's brutal rule of Cambodia

    Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of genocide for killings during group's brutal rule of Cambodia

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  • Australia, Malaysia trade words over Israel embassy shift

    A diplomatic war of words has erupted between Australia and Malaysia over the possibility of Canberra moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to...

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  • New Zealand makes biggest cocaine bust in banana shipment

    New Zealand police have made the country's largest cocaine seizure, with 190 kilograms (418 pounds) of the drug found in a container of bananas...

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  • China woos Pacific islands with loans, showcase projects

    As world leaders arrive in Papua New Guinea for a Pacific Rim summit, the welcome mat is especially big for China's president

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  • The Latest: Pence cites progress on N. Korea but more needed

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says "great progress" has been made on North Korea but more had to be done, after Pyongyang reported a successful test...

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