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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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  • Theresa May: A resilient politician facing a tough fight

    As Cabinet ministers quit and lawmakers called for her resignation, cricket-loving British Prime Minister Theresa May summoned the spirit of one of...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Philippines' Duterte to cut short APEC trip, officials say

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will cut short his participation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Papua New Guinea just days...

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  • Migrants streaming into Tijuana, but now face long stay

    About 2,000 Central American migrants have already reached the Mexican border city of Tijuana and another 1,200 from a second caravan have set out...

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  • Islamic State group suspect arrested, charged in Germany

    German prosecutors say they've charged a 32-year-old Syrian man with membership in a terrorist organization for alleged involvement with the extremist...

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  • Near Irish border, the Brexit drama is followed with alarm

    Communities near the Irish border that separates Britain and the EU are watching in apprehension as political chaos in London threatens to torpedo a...

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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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  • 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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  • VW wants to storm car market with mass-market 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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  • German chancellor visits scene of far-right protest

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Chemnitz to meet residents, three months after the eastern city was the scene of violent, far-right protests...

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

    Lawmakers in Sri Lanka's Parliament backing disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have thrown books and chairs to try to block the proceedings a...

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  • Lawyer: Court grants Islamic scholar bail amid rape inquiry

    A lawyer representing one of two women who have accused Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of raping them in France says a court has approved Ramadan's...

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  • Report: Russia has access to UK visa processing

    Investigative group Bellingcat and Russian website The Insider are suggesting that Russian intelligence has infiltrated the computer infrastructure of...

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  • UN human rights expert says UK cuts to services causing harm

    A U.N. human rights expert says cuts to Britain's social support are causing misery for poorer citizens.

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  • Danish online shop stops selling Nazi-themed items

    Denmark's largest online sale website has removed Nazi-themed items from its store, including 12 Christmas baubles, bought in Lithuania by a Dane who...

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  • Family to get US medals of Irish soldier killed in WWI

    A U.S.-based organization that returns lost Purple Heart medals and other military decorations is presenting a Purple Heart to relatives of an Irish...

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  • Rare golden-bellied mangabey monkey born at Budapest Zoo

    A rare golden-bellied mangabey monkey has been born at the Budapest Zoo, bringing the total in captivity to 27

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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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  • Israeli PM Netanyahu's main coalition partner seeks elections 'as soon as possible,' wants date set on Sunday

    Israeli PM Netanyahu's main coalition partner seeks elections 'as soon as possible,' wants date set on Sunday

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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