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  • China blasts new US tariff threat, warns it will retaliate

    China's government has denounced Trump's threat of tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods as blackmail and warned it would respond with "strong...

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  • Kasuo Kashio, co-founder of Casio of G-Shock fame, dies

    Kazuo Kashio, one of four brothers who founded Casio Computer Co., the Japanese company behind G-Shock watches, has died at age 89

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  • UN refugee agency: Record 68.5 million displaced in 2017

    The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 69 million people who have fled war, violence and persecution were forcibly displaced last year, a new record for...

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  • Japan to check concrete walls after Osaka quake deaths

    Japan's government has ordered nationwide inspection of school walls after two of the four deaths in Monday's earthquake in Osaka were caused by...

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  • Former UK foreign minister Hague calls for legalizing pot

    Former British Foreign Minister William Hague is calling for the government to take steps toward legalizing marijuana use

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  • Yemeni officials say fighting rages around Hodeida airport

    Yemeni military officials say fighting has escalated outside the airport of the vital Yemeni city of Hodeida

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  • Moment of silence to mark attack near London mosque

    Survivors of an attack near a London mosque have been invited to gather for a moment of silence to remember the victim and others hurt when a man...

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  • South Korea says US drills suspended to aid talks with North

    South Korea says it believes the suspension of military drills with the U.S. in August will help maintain momentum in talks with North Korea on ending...

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  • Indian police arrest 19 in test-cheating scams

    Police in north India have broken up scams that used professional test-takers and high-tech listening devices to help applicants pass a two-day test...

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  • Engine catches fire on plane with Saudi WCup team, none hurt

    Officials say an engine of a Russian airplane carrying Saudi Arabia's soccer team to a World Cup host city caught fire during landing, but nobody was...

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  • Colombian drug kingpin sentenced to 31 years for conspiracy

    A convicted Colombian drug kingpin has been sentenced to 31 years in prison

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  • 2 die of 6 men wounded in southern Sweden drive-by shooting

    Swedish authorities say that three men have died of the six injured in a drive-by shooting in the center of Sweden's third-largest city

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  • Sacked US Embassy guards in Cambodia stage protest

    Almost three dozen security guards fired by the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia for allegedly sharing pornography on smartphones they used for work have held...

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  • Libyan coast guard rescues 186 migrants, recovers 5 bodies

    Libya's coast guard says it has recovered the bodies of five migrants and rescued 186 others, including women and children, in separate operations in...

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  • China ambassador urges Australia against 'bias and bigotry'

    China's ambassador to Australia says the strained diplomatic relationship between the two countries needed to move away from "bias and bigotry" and...

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  • IraqForeign Ministry condemns strikes it says killed Iraqis

    Iraq condemns the targeting of pro-Syria paramilitary troops eastern Syria after an airstrike killed mostly Iraqi Shiite forces

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  • Philippine Supreme Court upholds expulsion of chief justice

    The Philippine Supreme Court has upheld the expulsion of its chief justice, the authoritarian president's highest-ranking critic, in a final ruling...

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  • Blurring the border, Turkey deepens roots in northern Syria

    Turkey is showing it's in northern Syria for the long-term, building up its enclave on the model of its own towns, using its own administrators

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  • German, French leaders meet to mold plans for EU's future

    The leaders of Germany and France are meeting to coordinate the two major European powers' positions on the future of the European Union ahead of next...

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  • AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States

    AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States

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  • Man who killed teen is Thailand's 1st execution since 2009

    Thailand has carried out its first execution in nine years, putting to death a man who killed a teenager for his mobile phone, in a move that has...

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  • Afghan official says Taliban assault kills 4

    Afghan official says at least four security forces were killed when Taliban fighters targeted army and local police checkpoints in northern Kunduz...

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  • Australian bishop to be sentenced next month for cover-up

    A prosecutor has told an Australian court that the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse must...

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  • China says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Beijing

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is making a two-day visit to Beijing and is expected to discuss with Chinese leaders his next steps after his summit...

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  • In Mexico, longtime foes 'AMLO' and elite getting pragmatic

    After more than a decade of mutual recriminations, Mexico's wealthy elite and leftist presidential front-runner Andres Lopez Obrador have reached...

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  • Asian stocks tumble after new Trump tariff threat

    Asian stocks have tumbled after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated a dispute with Beijing over technology policy by threatening a tariff hike on...

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  • Recording of crying children at border adds to outrage

    An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of small Spanish-speaking children being processed by U.S. officials took center...

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  • Former Tropical Storm Carlotta dissipates off Mexico coast

    Former Tropical Storm Carlotta weakened into a remnant low off Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast Monday night, though forecasters said its rains...

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  • Chinese state media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is visiting China from Tuesday to Wednesday

    Chinese state media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is visiting China from Tuesday to Wednesday

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  • Dozens missing after ferry sinking at Indonesia's Lake Toba

    Dozens of people are missing after a ferry sank on Indonesia's Lake Toba, casting a pall over holidays marking the end of the Muslim holy month

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  • US, Amnesty International call for justice in Honduras

    The United States' top diplomat and a global human rights group have called for the Honduran government to hold members of that country's security...

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  • Church suspends talks to ease Nicaragua political crisis

    Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy has suspended a dialogue with the government aimed at ending a two-month political crisis

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  • Court includes Ecuador's ex-President Correa in kidnap probe

    Ecuador's highest court has ordered former President Rafael Correa included in an investigation into a 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition...

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  • Using Trump's term, Pentagon suspends plans for 'wargame' with South Korea

    Trump, like North Korea, called the military exercises "provocative."

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  • UN says over 25,000 people fled Yemen fighting at Hodeida

    The U.N. spokesman says tens of thousands of residents have fled the fighting along Yemen's western coastline where the Saudi-led coalition backing...

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  • Gunfire injures 5 in Sweden, police tell public not to worry

    Swedish police say several people were injured when shots were fired in Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city

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  • Turkey charges father of NBA's Kanter as terror group member

    Turkey's official news agency says a court has accepted an indictment charging the father of NBA player Enes Kanter with "membership in a terror...

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  • Top Russian and US diplomats discuss Syria, North Korea

    Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has had a call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss Syria, North Korea and plans for future...

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  • Spanish PM vows to exhume Franco from controversial site

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he wants to remove the remains of the late dictator Francisco Franco from a controversial mausoleum and turn...

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  • Jury to decide fate of elderly Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank'

    Jurors are getting ready to deliberate in the case of a New England Mafia boss charged with killing a nightclub owner in 1993

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  • H. Clinton: Separating families at border a 'moral crisis'

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that has separated children from their parents at...

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  • Romania: Criminal justice revisions worsen graft worries

    Romanian lawmakers approved criminal justice changes that critics called a setback for prosecuting corruption, votes that came after an American...

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  • Lawyers, family seek release of detained pizza deliveryman

    Lawyers, family ask for release of detained Ecuadorean pizza delivery worker

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  • Doubts loom over Colombia peace deal with hawk's election

    Uncertainty looms over Colombia's fragile peace deal with the victory of one of its most hawkish critics in a bruising presidential runoff that laid...

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  • The Latest: Mob boss trial deliberations to start Tuesday

    Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Tuesday in the case of a former New England Mafia boss charged with killing a nightclub owner in 1993

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  • The Latest: Hungary asked to delay vote on 'Stop Soros' bill

    Experts within the Council of Europe are asking Hungarian lawmakers to delay passage of a bill that would penalize people who assist refugees with up...

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  • Over 30 killed after 2 suicide bombs hit end-of-Ramadan celebration

    Nigeria's government blamed Boko Haram for the deadly weekend attack.

    Jun 18

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  • Israel PM, Jordan king meet after months of strained ties

    Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet after months of strained relations

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  • 2 activists killed in Gambia in protests against sand mining

    Gambian police say two environmental activists were killed during protests against a sand mining company amid clashes with paramilitary forces

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  • US serial sperm donor banned from donating in Israel

    Serial sperm donor Ari Nagel, an American who has fathered 33 children, with 10 more on the way, has recently been banned from donating his sperm in...

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