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  • Mexico journalist fired over retweet seen to incite violence

    Mexico's largest media company has severed ties with a prominent journalist after he came under fire for retweeting a message seen as inciting...

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  • Rights group: Egypt uses solitary confinement as 'torture'

    An international rights group says Egypt is holding political prisoners in "prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement" that amounts to "torture."

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  • UK airports to add explosive detection dogs to screen cargo

    British officials say dogs trained to detect explosives are being deployed at airports to screen cargo for possible devices

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  • Teen dead, sister missing in Mexico underground river tour

    Authorities in southern Mexico say they were swept away by the current.

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  • Low turnout worries politicians as Lebanon voting ends

    Lebanon's first national elections in nine years have been marked by a tepid turnout, reflecting voter frustration over endemic corruption and a...

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  • Swarm of quakes hits El Salvador, damaging dozens of homes

    A swarm of earthquakes has shaken southern El Salvador, and authorities say dozens of homes have been damaged

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  • 40 killed in armed bandit attack in northwest Nigeria

    Officials and residents say at least 40 have been killed by armed bandits who attacked a Nigerian village in the country's northwest Kaduna state

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  • 2 found dead in quake-hit Polish coal mine; 3 still missing

    Polish rescue workers on Sunday found the bodies of two miners after an earthquake hit a coal mine in southern Poland

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  • Egypt says no hidden rooms in King Tut's tomb after all

    Egypt's antiquities ministry says new radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamun's burial...

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• May 6

  • Lebanon votes in shadow of Syria war, reflecting divisions

    Bitter divisions over the war in neighboring Syria, including the intervention by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, are on full display as Lebanese...

    May 6

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  • French anger mounts after Trump says Paris needs more guns

    Former French President Francois Hollande has two words for U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that gun-toting Parisians could have thwarted the...

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  • Israeli PM steps up calls to end the Iranian nuclear deal

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stepping up his calls on the world to cancel the nuclear deal as President Donald Trump weighs whether to...

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  • Israel says troops kill 3 men in Gaza border breach attempt

    Israeli military says troops shot and killed three Palestinians who attempted to breach the Gaza border fence

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  • Spain rescues 476 migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea

    Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 476 migrants in a two-day span who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea...

    May 6

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  • The Latest: Attack on Afghan mosque, voter center kills 14

    Officials in Afghanistan say a bomb blast inside a mosque that was being used as a voter registration center has killed at least 14 people and wounded...

    May 6

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  • Bombing at mosque in Afghanistan kills 14, wounds 33

    Afghan officials say a bomb blast inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan that was being used as a voter registration center has killed at least 14...

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  • Airplane and oil deals at risk in Trump pullout of Iran deal

    Corporate deals worth billions, from airplanes to oilfields, at risk as Trump weighs Iran nuclear deal pullout

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  • Iran sentences 16 female IS members to jail: report

    An Iranian media outlet is reporting that the country's judiciary has sentenced 16 female members of Islamic State group to jail when they returned to...

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  • Serbian police seal off village to prevent far-right rally

    Serbian police have prevented a far-right leader convicted of war crimes from returning to an ethnically-mixed northern village where he spurred...

    May 6

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  • Russian protest leader Navalny out of jail, faces 2 charges

    Alexei Navalny, the leader of protests against President Vladimir Putin, released from detention

    May 6

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  • Tunisia holds 1st local election since 2011 Arab Spring

    Tunisians are voting in their first local election since the Arab Spring revolution, seen as a crucial step toward consolidating the country's...

    May 6

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  • Gunman wounds Pakistan's interior minister in Punjab

    Pakistani officials say a gunman has opened fire on the country's interior minister after a public meeting, wounding him in shoulder

    May 6

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  • Shoah group urges German police to find fugitive neo-Nazi

    A group of Holocaust survivors has urged the German authorities to intensify their search for a notorious neo-Nazi who didn't show up for her prison...

    May 6

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  • In election manifesto, Erdogan vows new military campaigns

    Presenting his election manifesto, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises new military operations against Kurdish militants along its border in Syria...

    May 6

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  • The Latest: Polish rescue workers find 2nd body in mine

    A mining official says a 38-year-old miner found Sunday by rescuers is dead, after a quake hit a colliery in southern Poland

    May 6

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  • Water line break floods 50 staterooms on Carnival cruise

    A water line break flooded 50 staterooms aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship as it sailed through the Caribbean

    May 6

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  • Indian forces fire on Kashmir protesters, killing at least 5

    Police say government forces killed five rebels in fighting in Indian-controlled Kashmir as the second day of anti-India protests left five civilians...

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  • London police seek info after teen is shot dead on a street

    British police are urgently seeking information about the shooting death of a teenage boy

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  • German high schoolers complain English exam was too hard

    High school students in Germany have been complaining in an online petition about their final exam in English saying the test was much harder than in...

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  • Iraq launches airstrike in Syria against Islamic State

    Iraq says it has carried out an airstrike in neighboring Syria targeting the Islamic State group

    May 6

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  • Clarification: Saudi-Guantanamo Release story

    Clarification: Saudi-Guantanamo Release story

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  • IMF lauds Egypt, says it must now empower private sector

    The International Monetary Fund has lauded Egypt's progress in stabilizing its economy, instilling market confidence, cutting debt and driving growth

    May 6

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  • Afghan official says 30 'killed and wounded' in explosion at a mosque being used as a voter registration center

    Afghan official says 30 'killed and wounded' in explosion at a mosque being used as a voter registration center

    May 6

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  • Pope prays for peace in Central African Republic

    Pope Francis offered a prayer in St. Peter's Square for an end to violence in the deeply impoverished Central African Republic, which he visited 2 ½...

    May 6

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  • A Zimbabwe Spring? New leader embraces surprising freedoms

    A Zimbabwe Spring? New leader embraces surprising freedoms, but some call them superficial

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  • Malaysia's Anwar joins with former persecutor for election

    Malaysian opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim can't vote in what he believes will be a defining election but even from his prison cell has remained a potent...

    May 6

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  • North Korea says US ruining mood of detente ahead of summit

    Ahead of summit with Trump, North Korea has slammed the U.S. for what it calls are "misleading" claims Washington's policy of maximum political...

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  • China could target US firms, debt if Trump plays hardball

    In a looming trade war, Beijing has many ways to inflict pain.

    May 6

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  • Iran's president: US ending deal will be 'historic regret'

    Iran's president is warning President Donald Trump that pulling America out of the nuclear deal with world powers would be a "historic regret."

    May 6

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  • Death toll from Pakistan mining explosions climbs to 23

    Pakistani officials say the death toll from methane gas explosions in two coal mines has climbed to 23

    May 6

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  • Suspected water contamination kills 10 Cambodians; 120 ill

    A health official says 10 Cambodian villagers have died and 120 others are sickened after drinking water suspected to be contaminated with insecticide

    May 6

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  • A look at the key players in the Lebanese elections

    A look at the key players in Lebanon's elections, the first to be held in 9 years

    May 6

• May 5

  • Malaysia foils smuggling of 131 Sri Lankan immigrants

    Malaysian police have intercepted a tanker with 131 Sri Lankans believed bound for Australia and New Zealand, smashing a large human smuggling ring...

    May 5

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  • France slams Trump for remarks on guns and Paris attacks

    France is rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's argument that if Parisians had more guns they could have stopped the deadly 2015 extremist attacks...

    May 5

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  • Phnom Penh Post sold by Aussie owner to Malaysian investor

    The newspaper widely considered the last independent media voice in Cambodia has been sold by its Australian publisher to a Malaysian investor

    May 5

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  • Mexico: 9 found dead in back of truck in Guerrero state

    Mexican authorities say nine men have been found murdered in the back of a small cargo truck in the southern state of Guerrero

    May 5

• May 5

  • US ambassador to Mexico departs, ends 30-year State career

    Washington's ambassador to Mexico has ended her time in the post and left the country for retirement after a 30-year career with the State Department

    May 5

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  • Glencore cancels proposed sale of stake in Russian oil co.

    Commodities giant Glencore says it is terminating a proposed deal to sell nearly all its stake in Russian oil company Rosneft to a Chinese energy...

    May 5

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  • Body of missing German cyclist believed found in Mexico

    Authorities in southern Mexico say they have located what they believe to be the body of a missing German cyclist near where his Polish cycling...

    May 5

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  • Hundreds arrested at anti-Putin demonstrations in Russia

    It comes two days before Putin's inauguration as president for a fourth term.

    May 5