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AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States
AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States4m ago![FILE - In this file photo Sept. 18, 2017 provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber, F-35B stealth fighter jets and South Korean F-15K fighter jets fly over the Korean Peninsula during a joint drills, South Korea. The Pentag]()
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South Korea says US drills suspended to aid talks with North
South Korea says a joint military exercise scheduled with the U.S. has been suspended to support ongoing talks both countries have with North Korea19m ago![A photo showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed as a member of People's Democratic Party stands to oppose military exercises between the United States and South Korea near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South]()
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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 administrators21m ago![FILE - In this March 24, 2018 file photo, Turkish soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier secure the streets of the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria. Turkey is growing long-ter]()
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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...23m ago![A woman reacts near flowers near the site where a concrete wall at an elementary school fell onto the street and killed a 9-year-old, in Takatsuki, Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Residents in western Japan were cleaning up debris Monda]()
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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...25m ago
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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...36m ago
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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...50m ago
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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...56m ago
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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...1h ago
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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...1h ago![Philip Wilson]()
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China blasts new US tariff threat as 'blackmail'
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...2h ago
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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...2h ago![The motorcade that is believed be carrying North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, passes by policemen as it leaves the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Chinese state media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will mak]()
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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...2h ago![Cheng Jingye]()
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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...2h ago![FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2002 file photo, Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves after delivering his state of the city address in Mexico City. Widely popular among Mexico’s poor and working classes, Lopez Obrador, who was Mexico City ma]()
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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...3h ago![FILE- In this Jan. 2, 2018, file photo, a trader talks on his phone before the start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange. The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 18. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)]()
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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...3h ago![In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday,]()
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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...3h ago
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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 WednesdayJun 18
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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 monthJun 18![Indonesian search and rescue team on the boat search for a ferry carrying about 80 passengers which sank on Monday, in Toba lake, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. A night-time search and rescue effort is underway after a ferry carry]()
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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...Jun 18
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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 crisisJun 18![Leopoldo Brenes]()
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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...Jun 18
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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."Jun 18![PHOTO: South Korean marines participate in landing operation referred to as Foal Eagle joint military exercise with U.S. troops Pohang seashore, on April 2, 2017, in Pohang, South Korea.]()
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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...Jun 18
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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 cityJun 18![Police stand next to a cordon in central Malmo, southern Sweden, Monday, June 18, 2018. A Swedish newspaper is reporting that four people have injured in a shooting near a police station in the southern city of Malmo. Witnesses told newspaper Aftonbl]()
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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...Jun 18![FILE - In this Wednesday, April 25, 2018 file photo, New York Knicks' Enes Kanter, right, a former Oklahoma City Thunder center, talks with Mark Bryant, left, a Thunder assistant coach, before Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series be]()
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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...Jun 18
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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...Jun 18![FILE - In this Tuesday, May 10, 2016 file photo, tourists walk outside of the Spanish former dictator General Francisco Franco's tomb at the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen), near Madrid. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he wants t]()
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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 1993Jun 18![In this 1993 FBI surveillance photo, Francis]()
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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...Jun 18![Hillary Clinton]()
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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...Jun 18
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Lawyers, family seek release of detained pizza deliveryman
Lawyers, family ask for release of detained Ecuadorean pizza delivery workerJun 18![Sandra Chica, center, wife of Pablo Villavicencio, stands speaks at a news conference outside federal immigration offices, Monday, June 18, 2018, in New York. Villavicencio was arrested June 1 while delivering pizza to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. He i]()
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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...Jun 18![Ivan Duque]()
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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 1993Jun 18![In this 1993 FBI surveillance photo, Francis]()
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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...Jun 18![This photo released on Sunday, June 17, 2018, by French NGO]()
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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![PHOTO: Paramedics carry a young victim of a blast at the hospital, June 17, 2018, in Maiduguri, Nigeria.]()
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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 relationsJun 18![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday June 17, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)]()
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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 forcesJun 18
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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...Jun 18
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Greece: 2 face racism charges over beatings of immigrants
Greek police say they have arrested one suspected extreme nationalist and are seeking a second as suspects in a pair of attacks on immigrants in...Jun 18
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Merkel, allies avert collision for now in German migrant row
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies have averted an immediate collision with the German leaderJun 18![FILE - In this April 10, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front center, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, right, look at their watches after they and other members of the government posed for a group photo during two-day re]()
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Greek far-right lawmaker arrested on treason-linked charges
Greek anti-terrorism police have arrested an extreme far-right lawmaker on treason-linked charges, more than two days after he evaded arrest by...Jun 18![Costas Barbarousis]()
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Mexico arrests ex-prosecutor in disappearance cases
Mexican police have arrested a former state prosecutor in the forced disappearance of over a dozen peopleJun 18
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Airport authorities detain 2 rights advocates in Yemen
Yemeni rights advocates are reporting that two of the country's most prominent activists have been detained and taken to an undisclosed location at an...Jun 18
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Italy's interior minister turns gaze to 'Roma question'
Italy's hard-line interior minister, who recently sparked a multinational showdown by refusing entry to a Mediterranean Sea rescue boat packed with...Jun 18![Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, center, attends a local election rally in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Italy, Sunday, June 17, 2018. Reports state that the 'Italian government will promote development initiatives in Africa, to stem immigr]()
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The United Nations says over 25,000 people have fled the fighting at Yemen's port city of Hodeida
The United Nations says over 25,000 people have fled the fighting at Yemen's port city of HodeidaJun 18
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Israel arrests former government minister for Iran spying
Israel's internal security agency is accusing a former government minister of spying for archenemy Iran. The Shin Bet says Gonen Segev was arrested...Jun 18
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Canada temporarily shuts fishing areas to help right whales
The Canadian government says it is taking some steps to try to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from encounters with fishing vesselsJun 18![FILE - In this March 28, 2018, file photo, a North Atlantic right whale appears at the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. The Canadian government says it is taking steps to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from enc]()
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Underwear hung around politician's office after block on 'upskirting' ban
"No one should be able to photo my pants unless I want them to," one read.Jun 18![Sir Christopher Chope speaking in the House of Commons in London on June 15, 2018, as Government-backed plans to criminalize upskirting have been derailed after being opposed by the Conservative MP.]()
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