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  • The Latest: World leaders invoke Mandela's legacy at UN

    U.N. officials and world leaders are looking to Nelson Mandela's legacy of championing peace, human rights and global cooperation as the U.N. General...

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  • Deutsche Bank ordered to install money laundering monitor

    Germany's financial regulator has ordered Deutsche Bank to install a special monitor to oversee the implementation of safeguards against money...

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  • Italy tightens eligibility for migrant protection

    Italy's populist government is making it harder for migrants to be approved for humanitarian protection

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  • Romania patriarch urges clergy to promote traditional family

    The leader of Romania's influential Orthodox Church praises the traditional family, ahead of a vote on whether to change the constitution to specify...

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  • Russian national held in Norway after European conference

    The man was arrested during a conference on strengthening European cooperation.

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  • Kenya police charge provincial governor with student murder

    Kenyan police have charged a provincial governor with the murder of a university student who claimed he had impregnated her in an extramarital affair

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  • Charles Kao, Nobel-winning optical fiber pioneer, dies at 84

    Charles K. Kao, a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in optical fiber technology, dies at age 84

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  • Kenya's military says it's killed 10 extremists in attack

    Kenya's military says it's killed 10 rebels from the al-Shabab extremist group in an ambush in Kenya's south where several soldiers have died from...

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  • Charities operating rescue boat ask Europe for help

    The humanitarian groups operating the sole private rescue boat operating near the deadly central Mediterranean human trafficking route are urging...

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  • The Latest: Slovenia detains more than 100 migrants

    Police in Slovenia say they have caught more than 100 migrants trying to enter the European Union country illegally last weekend

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  • Suspected rebels kill 18 in Congo's east

    A Congolese civil society group says that 18 people have been killed in attacks by suspected Allied Democratic Forces rebels in the eastern city of...

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  • Brexit backers advocate alternative economic plan

    Brexit advocates unveiled Monday a new economic plan for Britain's exit from the European Union as official figures emerged showing the country's...

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  • Pope praises Latvians for keeping faith during occupation

    Pope Francis praised Latvians on Monday for persevering through the horrors of Soviet and Nazi occupation, persecution and exile and urged them to...

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  • Mandela statue unveiled at UN: 'a reminder' and inspiration

    A statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled at the United Nations to honor the 100th anniversary of the late South African leader's birth

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  • Uganda's opposition pop star says he doesn't feel safe

    Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine says he is concerned about his safety four days after returning home from the United States

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  • Germany looking to sell costly, rarely used drone to Canada

    Germany wants to sell Canada a second-hand drone that's cost over 700 million euros ($823 million) _ without many core components it needs to fly

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  • Wails, vows of revenge at Iran funeral after parade attack

    Mourning their dead, Iranians hold funerals for victims of attack on military parade in Ahvaz

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  • Mandela: A life of soaring symbolism, now harnessed by UN

    The U.N. is harnessing the soaring symbolism of Nelson Mandela, whose South African journey from anti-apartheid leader to prisoner to president to...

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  • Teenager rescued after drifting 7 weeks at sea

    The floating wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings.

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  • Turkey promises 'safe zones' in Kurdish-held parts of Syria

    Turkey says it will take steps to create "safe zones" across northern Syria, including in areas held by Syrian Kurdish fighters who are allied with...

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  • AP Photos: The Maldives opposition's surprise election win

    AP Photos: The Maldives opposition's surprise election win

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  • Maldives' president concedes loss to opposition candidate

    Maldives strongman President Yameen Abdul Gayoom has conceded he lost Sunday's election to his challenger, longtime lawmaker Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, in...

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  • French boat rescues injured Indian sailor from yacht

    Indian authorities say a French ship has rescued an Indian sailor who was injured in the remote southern Indian Ocean during a round-the-world solo...

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  • French government to cut taxes on businesses, households

    The French government plans to cut taxes by 24.8 billion euros ($29.2 billion) next year in an effort to boost the economy and create more jobs

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  • Norway convicts man of providing terror attack instructions

    A man has been convicted of terror offenses in Norway for providing online instructions on how to carry out attacks and sentenced to 2 ½ years in...

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  • Thai junta leader interested in staying in politics

    The head of Thailand's military government has declared he is "interested" in participating in politics, in a new indication he may seek to remain in...

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  • Tanzania investigates ferry disaster which killed 225

    Tanzania's government has launched an inquest into the cause of the ferry disaster, in which 225 people died when a boat capsized in Lake Victoria...

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  • Statue of Nelson Mandela is dedicated at United Nations

    A peace summit is scheduled later Monday in Mandela's honor.

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  • EU takes Poland to its top court over judicial reform

    The European Union has decided to take Poland to the bloc's top court over disagreements on the overhaul of the Polish judicial system and also as the...

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  • Moldovan court suspends president in political standoff

    Moldova's Constitutional Court temporarily strips the country's pro-Moscow president of his duties for his refusal to endorse new ministers in a...

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  • Iran: US wish to halt Iran's crude exports won't come true

    Iran's oil minister acknowledged South Korea had stopped buying from Tehran.

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  • Gaza refugee agency staff on strike over cutbacks, firings

    Gaza employees on UN Palestinian refugee agency on strike to protest pay cuts and dismissals

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  • George Soros foundation sues Hungary on laws targeting NGOs

    The Open Society Foundations, created by billionaire George Soros, says it has filed applications before the European Court of Human Rights and...

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  • 5 suspected rebels, India soldier killed in Kashmir fighting

    The Indian army says five suspected militants and a soldier have been killed in fighting near the highly militarized de facto frontier that divides...

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  • Iran's politics go topsy-turvy, 40 years after revolution

    Iran's politics go topsy-turvy, 40 years after Islamic Revolution, with more criticism bubbling up to the surface

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  • EU takes action against UK over customs duties

    The European Union is taking further legal steps against Britain over its alleged failure to effectively prevent customs duties fraud, which is...

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  • Putin's most prominent critic leaves jail, then arrested again on his way out

    Alexey Navalny was arrested on charges of organizing unauthorized protests.

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  • Calm opposition leader wins Maldives presidency amid storm

    Calm opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih wins Maldives presidency amid storm

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  • Russia to send newer, S-300 missile defense systems to Syria

    The move follows the downing of a Russian plane over Syria last week.

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  • Man at center of Nobel sex scandal remanded pending verdict

    The man at the center of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize was remanded in...

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  • 400-year-old shipwreck found off Portugal coast

    Archaeologists said the wreck was the most important underwater find in decades.

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  • German convicted on war crime charge over IS stint in Syria

    The man identified only as Abdelkarim E. B. was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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  • As Venezuelans go hungry, Trump targets food corruption

    U.S. Treasury officials in June distributed a list of suspected companies that they believe senior Venezuelan officials have used across the globe to...

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  • Germany continues evicting protesters from forest

    Authorities in western Germany say they are continuing the eviction of protesters from a threatened forest after a temporary stop last week due to the...

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  • UK's Labour opposition says it might back new Brexit vote

    The vote would not include an option to remain in the EU.

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  • 3 Saudi human rights activists awarded "Alternative Nobel"

    The three activists who won are currently in jail in Saudi Arabia.

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  • Merkel: German government must give up internal squabbles

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it's time for her coalition government to stop getting bogged down in internal disputes after its leaders reached...

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  • Russian news agencies quote Defense Minister as saying that Russia will send modern missile defense systems to Syria.

    Russian news agencies quote Defense Minister as saying that Russia will send modern missile defense systems to Syria.

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  • Man arrested with small Taser at Buckingham Palace set free

    British police have released a man who was detained by security staff at Buckingham Palace on suspicion of carrying a Taser

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  • German business confidence holds up amid trade worries

    Business confidence in Europe's largest economy fell only slightly in September despite worries about trade disputes that could harm growth

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