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  • As US pushes Tehran, Iran recalls American-backed 1953 coup

    As US pushes Tehran by pulling out of nuclear deal, Iran recalls American-backed 1953 coup

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  • Shots fired at gate of US Embassy in Turkey, but no one hurt

    Shots fired at a security booth outside the U.S. Embassy in Turkey's capital; police searching for white car

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  • Malaysia hopes China will sympathize with its fiscal woes

    Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he hopes China will sympathize with his country's fiscal problems as he meets with Chinese leaders...

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  • Afghan officials: Taliban take at least 100 people hostage

    Afghan officials: Taliban take more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage in ambush in north

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  • New Zealand politicians plan pay freeze as workers strike

    New Zealand's lawmakers are planning to take a pay freeze at a time that teachers, nurses and other public workers have been going on strike for more...

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  • Thailand's Queen Sirikit, 86, admitted to hospital with flu

    Thailand's Queen Sirikit is being treated in a hospital for the flu

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  • Indian navy opens airport to commercial planes amid floods

    Indian officials say a military airport has opened to commercial flights in the flood-savaged state of Kerala, to help speed in relief and fly out...

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  • Muslim pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat for hajj's pinnacle

    Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia gather in valley at Mount Arafat for day of prayer marking pinnacle of the hajj

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  • Escort says oligarch now has tapes on Russia interference

    An escort service worker from Belarus who claimed to have information linking Russian interference to the election of Donald Trump says she no longer...

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  • Quake swarm jolts Indonesian islands, killing at least 12

    Multiple strong earthquakes cut power across the Indonesian island of Lombok, toppled buildings and killed at least 12 people as the tourist hotspot...

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  • Australian prime minister abandons greenhouse gas target

    Prime Minister Turnbull hoped to head off a revolt by conservative lawmakers.

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  • Afghan officials: Taliban take more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage in ambush in north

    Afghan officials: Taliban take more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage in ambush in north

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  • Poland's president visits Australian capital and Parliament

    Poland's president has flown to the Australian capital on a visit that focuses on security and trade

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  • Despite deadly explosions, Mexican fireworks capital endures

    On the northern outskirts of Mexico's capital, the city of Tultepec is famous as a cradle of fireworks production for the country and also infamous...

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  • Venezuelans nervously await dramatic economic reforms

    Venezuelans are bracing for dramatic economic measures the government has announced, including a more-than 3,000 percent hike in the minimum wage

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  • South Koreans enter North to reunite with kin split by war

    South Koreans separated from loved ones in the North are crossing the border.

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  • A group of South Koreans has traveled to border ahead of reunions with relatives in North after being separated by war

    A group of South Koreans has traveled to border ahead of reunions with relatives in North after being separated by war

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  • New premier Imran Khan pledges to restore Pakistan's economy

    Prime Minister Imran Khan says in his first televised speech in office that Pakistan is in the worst economic condition it has seen and he will adopt...

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  • Afghan president calls for Eid cease-fire, Taliban to reply

    Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has announced a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday

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  • Mexican poppy producing state pushes to decriminalize opium

    Legislators in the violence-torn Mexican state of Guerrero vote to legalize production of opium for pharmaceutical use in a move they hope will reduce...

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  • Brazil to send troops to town bordering Venezuela

    The Brazilian government says it plans to send troops to the border town of Pacaraima after residents there attacked Venezuelan migrants

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  • Italy bridge designer warned in 1979 of risk of corrosion

    The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed 43 people warned four decades ago that it would require constant...

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  • Romanian minister: Hundreds involved in riot police attack

    Romania's interior minister says hundreds of protesters attacked riot police during an anti-corruption demonstration that left 450 people injured

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  • Sentence doubled for Israeli policeman who shot Palestinian

    Israel's Supreme Court has doubled the prison sentence of a former border policeman who was convicted of unjustly shooting a stone-throwing...

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  • Venezuelans jittery ahead of sudden economic reforms

    Venezuelans are bracing for dramatic economic measures the government has announced, including a more-than 3,000 percent hike in the minimum wage

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  • Bolton meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem to discuss Iran

    National Security Adviser John Bolton met with Israel's prime minister during a visit to Jerusalem

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  • Palestinians sort through 8 years of mail held by Israel

    Palestinian postal workers in the West Bank are sifting through eight years' worth of undelivered mail held by Israel

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  • Iraq's top court ratifies manual recount of May ballots

    Iraq's top court ratifies results of manual ballot recount, paving the way for new house to meet, government to be formed

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  • Iran appoints former F-14 Tomcat pilot as air force chief

    Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that the country's top leader has appointed a new chief for its air force

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  • Irish archbishop urges pope to speak frankly about abuse

    The archbishop of Dublin says he hopes Pope Francis will speak frankly about the "darkness" of priestly sex abuse during his upcoming visit to...

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  • Indonesia's Lombok island jolted by multiple quakes

    Strong earthquakes have jolted the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, causing power blackouts, landslides and damaging buildings, as the island...

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  • 2 monks referred to trial over abbot's killing in Egypt

    Egypt's state-run news agency says prosecutors have referred two monks to trial on charges of killing an abbot in a monastery north of Cairo last...

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  • The Latest: Another strong quake jolts Indonesia's Lombok

    Another strong earthquake has struck near the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok

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  • Cyprus extradites Egyptian hijacker who dropped legal fight

    Cyprus police say an Egyptian man who three years ago hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and ordered it to land on the Mediterranean island has been...

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  • Italy threatens to return migrants to Libya in new standoff

    Italy's firebrand interior minister is threatening to return to Libya 177 migrants who have been aboard an Italian coast guard ship for days following...

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  • U.S. Geological Survey says magnitude 6.9 quake hits near Indonesia's Lombok island at depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles)

    U.S. Geological Survey says magnitude 6.9 quake hits near Indonesia's Lombok island at depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles)

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  • Iran detains outspoken lawyer calling for free elections

    Report: Iran detains outspoken lawyer demanding free elections

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  • Drought reveals remains of German 'Atlantis' in lake

    A sustained drought in Germany has revealed the ruins of a village abandoned when a large reservoir was created more than 100 years ago

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  • Afghan president Ghani announces conditional ceasefire with Taliban for Eid al-Adha holiday; Taliban yet to respond

    Afghan president Ghani announces conditional ceasefire with Taliban for Eid al-Adha holiday; Taliban yet to respond

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  • 1 killed in Ugandan riots over alleged torture of lawmakers

    Ugandan police say 1 person has been killed in riots over the arrests of opposition lawmakers, including two who are hospitalized for injuries...

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  • Israeli questioning of US Jews at border exposes deeper rift

    Israel's recent detention of Jewish-American critics entering the country is shining a spotlight on a growing gulf between the world's two largest...

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  • Uganda arrests American man who attacked hotel staff

    Ugandan police are holding an American man who in video footage is seen attacking a hotel worker with punches and insults

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  • 'Dream or reality?' Koreans to meet after decades apart

    Hundreds of Koreans will participate, starting Monday, in a week of temporary reunions with relatives most haven't seen since the 1950-53 Korean War...

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  • 800,000 displaced in flooding in southern Indian state

    Officials say some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state

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  • When is Hajj and what is it? Here's what you need to know

    The tradition of heading to Mecca for pilgrimages predates Islam.

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  • Egypt reveals details of skeletons found inside sarcophagus

    Egypt says researchers have determined the gender and age of the three skeletons found inside a black granite sarcophagus uncovered in July

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  • Q&A: The hajj pilgrimage and its significance in Islam

    Q&A: The five-day hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and its significance in Islam

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  • Hezbollah leader meets with Yemeni rebels

    Hezbollah says its leader has met with a delegation from Yemen's Houthi rebels

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  • Superdry founder gives $1.28 million to anti-Brexit campaign

    The co-founder of fashion brand Superdry has donated 1 million pounds ($1.28 million) to campaigners seeking a new referendum on Britain's departure...

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  • Movement encourages Argentines to quit Catholic church

    Hundreds of people gathered in Buenos Aires to oppose the influence of religion.

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