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  • GSK, Pfizer to merge their healthcare divisions

    Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are merging their healthcare divisions, creating a business with combined sales of 9.8 billion pounds ($12.7...

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  • Elections in the time of Ebola: Congo to vote amid disease

    Elections in the time of Ebola: Congo prepares to vote; 'There are so many risks'

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  • Singapore bans former Goldman Sachs exec with 1MDB links

    Singapore issues lifetime ban on former Goldman Sachs banker facing 1MDB charges in US and Malaysia

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  • AP PHOTOS: Turkey's whirling dervishes honor Sufi poet

    AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervishes commemorate the life of Sufi poet Jalaladdin Rumi

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  • SoftBank mobile subsidiary has bitter debut on Tokyo market

    SoftBank mobile subsidiary suffers bitter debut on the Tokyo market, slumping 15 percent after it reportedly raised $23 billion

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  • Report: 53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018

    The number killed worldwide in retaliation for their work nearly doubled.

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  • Children as young as 10 fight, kill and die in Yemen's war

    An AP investigation has found that thousands of children have been recruited by Yemen's Houthi rebels to fight in the country's civil war

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  • Children fight, kill and die in Yemen's civil war

    The Houthis have inducted 18,000 child soldiers into their army since 2014.

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  • Madagascar goes to the polls in runoff presidential election

    Voters have begun casting their ballots are across the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar Wednesday to select a new president in a runoff...

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  • Trust for US bondholders sues Venezuela over defaulted debt

    A trust representing holders of Venezuelan bonds has gone to New York federal court demanding payment on more than $34 million in unpaid debt

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editors' picks for 2018 from Asia

    AP PHOTOS: Editors' picks for the best images of 2018 from Asia

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  • Madagascar begins voting in runoff presidential election between 2 former leaders

    Madagascar begins voting in runoff presidential election between 2 former leaders

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  • Texas AG, universities face suit over Israel boycott law

    American Civil Liberties Union of Texas files a lawsuit against the state's attorney general and others over a law requiring contractors to certify...

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  • Lawmakers call for probe into Guatemalan child's death

    Lawmakers visiting the Border Patrol station where a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl was taken hours before her death are demanding an investigation into...

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  • Huawei calls on US, others to show proof of security risk

    Huawei chairman challenges United States and other governments to provide evidence for claims the Chinese tech giant is a security risk

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  • Cuba eliminates gay marriage language from new constitution

    Cuba says language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft of a new constitution after widespread popular rejection...

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  • Asylum seekers stake claims on patch of US soil at border

    21 Hondurans are camped between the official line between the U.S. and Mexico.

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  • UK business groups plead for deal to prevent no-deal Brexit

    Britain's five leading business groups are pleading with the government to prevent having the country's departure from the European Union without a...

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  • Guatemala pulls diplomatic credentials of UN body's workers

    Guatemala has withdrawn diplomatic immunity from 11 workers with a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission who have investigated cases of alleged...

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  • The Latest: Standoff ends as US processes asylum seekers

    Attorneys say six Honduran asylum seekers have been allowed to claim asylum at a U.S. border crossing in San Diego after spending a chilly night on a...

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  • This day in history: Dec. 27, 2007

    Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated.

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    Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat meet in Egypt.

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    Yasser Arafat visits Bethlehem.

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  • Trump's travel ban almost blocked a woman from seeing her dying son

    Shaima Swileh's 2-year-old son, Abdullah, is on life support in a U.S. hospital.

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  • Hungary: Opposition vows renewed protests after holiday lull

    Street demonstrations against recent labor law changes in Hungary appear to wane on sixth day, but opposition lawmakers vow to pursue legal and...

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  • Blaze destroys at least 600 houses in Brazil neighborhood.

    Brazilian officials say a fire has engulfed a low-income neighborhood in the northern city of Manaus, destroying at least 600 wooden houses

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  • Vatican committee: Church credibility at risk over sex abuse

    Organizers of a Vatican summit on sex abuse prevention issued the warning.

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  • Greek lawmakers approve new budget _ with more austerity

    Greek lawmakers have approved the heavily indebted country's budget for 2019, the first since Greece exited an eight-year bailout program

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  • Russian businessman to stay in jail pending laundering trial

    A Russian businessman who lived lavishly in North Carolina will remain jailed while he's prosecuted on charges including money laundering and...

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  • Carnegie Hero Fund honors 18 for acts of selfless courage

    A Philadelphia teenager who went into a burning home to save his 23-month-old nephew is among the 16 Americans and two Canadians being recognized for...

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  • US pledges $10.6B aid for Central America, southern Mexico

    The United States is pledging $5.8 billion in aid for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion...

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  • French govt offers 300-euro bonus to protest-weary police

    The French government has proposed giving 300-euro ($340) bonuses to officers deployed to the aggressive and disruptive protests that started last...

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  • US hospital ship returns after treating Venezuelan migrants

    A U.S. Navy hospital ship has returned home after its medical crew treated thousands of people in Central and South America

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  • Judge inclined to free DEA agent accused of helping gang

    A federal judge in Chicago says she's inclined to free a DEA agent on bond pending trial on charges he joined the agency specifically to help a...

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  • Fighting in Yemeni city dies down as cease-fire takes hold

    Officials say the key port city of Hodeida is calm, hours after a cease-fire.

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  • Guatemala: Body of girl who died in US custody set to return

    Guatemalan authorities say they have completed documentation needed to clear the way for repatriation of the body of a 7-year-old migrant girl who...

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  • Saudi spending to hit record high as oil prices resume slide

    Saudi Arabia's expenditures will hit a record-high in 2019 as the government plans to increase state spending by 7 percent to reach $295 billion...

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  • US hints at Trump Mideast peace plan: lots to like, some not

    U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has given a hint of the Trump administration's peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, saying it's long, takes...

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  • Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has announced his resignation in address at parliament, says he will notify king

    Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has announced his resignation in address at parliament, says he will notify king

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  • The Latest: Greece accused of violently forcing out migrants

    An international rights watchdog has accused Greek authorities of violently forcing back migrants who tried to illegally enter Greece from neighboring...

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  • EU urges Kosovo to drop tariffs as political tensions mount

    The European Union's top diplomat is calling on Kosovo to lift tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as tensions rise between the former...

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  • Macedonia offers partial amnesty for storming of parliament

    Macedonian lawmakers has approved a law offering partial amnesty to some suspected perpetrators of a violent storming of parliament last year, as a...

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  • The US is pledging $10.6 billion for Central America, southern Mexico to discourage migration

    The US is pledging $10.6 billion for Central America, southern Mexico to discourage migration

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  • Zimbabwe inquiry finds army, police killed 6 during protest

    Report says Zimbabwean soldiers and police used "unjustified and disproportionate" force to kill 6 people during election protests in August

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  • Divers celebrate Christmas, a squirrel monkey searches for nuts: World in Photos

    Here's a look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Ex head of DEA post in Colombia cleared in misconduct probe

    The former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's office in Colombia has been cleared of wrongdoing following a probe of misconduct...

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  • Clouds grow over German economy after stocks hit bear market

    Worries are growing about the strength of the German economy, Europe's largest, as business confidence slides and stock market enters bear market.

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  • UAE backs Saudi rebuke of US Senate over Khashoggi killing

    The United Arab Emirates has thrown its support behind Saudi Arabia's rebuke of the U.S. Senate, which passed a resolution last week blaming Saudi...

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  • Major powers report progress on new Syria constitution body

    Russia's foreign minister says the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey have agreed to convene the first session of a committee to draft a new...

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