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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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  • Imran Khan pledges to restore Pakistan's economy

    Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan says the country is in the worst economic condition it has seen and is pledging to cut government...

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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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  • Saudi Arabia prepares for the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage

    Saudi Arabia is preparing to host the annual hajj pilgrimage beginning Sunday, as over 2 million Muslim faithful from abroad have arrived in the...

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  • Egypt says plane hijacker extradited from Cyprus

    Egypt's chief prosecutor says Cyprus has extradited the hijacker of an EgyptAir plane that was diverted to the Mediterranean island in 2016

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  • Israel closing Gaza crossing after violence along frontier

    Israel's defense minister says he's closing the country's main personnel crossing with Gaza in response to recent violence along the border

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  • German prosecutors probe Yazidi woman's claim about IS man

    German federal prosecutors say they're taking seriously a Yazidi woman's claim she encountered her former Islamic State captor in Germany, but need...

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• Aug 18

  • Brazilians attack Venezuelan immigrants in border town

    Residents of Brazil's border town of Pacaraima attacked Venezuelan immigrants after a local storeowner was robbed, stabbed and beaten by 4 immigrants

    Aug 18

• Aug 18

  • The Latest: US's Pompeo sends condolences over Annan's death

    The Latest: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his sadness over the death of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and sent his...

    Aug 18

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  • 113 dead turtles wash ashore on Mexican Pacific coast

    Mexican environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of sea turtles.

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  • The Latest: Romanian trucker is Genoa bridge's 43rd victim

    A Genoa hospital says a Romanian truck driver who suffered severe cranial and chest injuries in the city's bridge collapse has died

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  • German prosecutors probe Yazidi woman's claim about IS man

    German federal prosecutors say they're taking seriously a Yazidi woman's claim she encountered her former Islamic State captor in Germany, but need...

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  • Military intervention in Rio to end in December

    Brazil's public security minister says the military will no longer be in charge of security forces in Rio de Janeiro state as of December

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  • Suspect in UK Parliament crash charged with attempted murder

    Driver's car collided with several people before crashing outside Parliament.

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  • Investigation launched into deadly bridge collapse amid desperate search for missing

    A large section of the bridge buckled, sending cars plummeting to the ground.

    Aug 18

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  • Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80

    Former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan dies at age 80

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  • Global reactions to death of former UN chief Kofi Annan

    Global reactions to death of former UN chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan

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  • Pakistan's Imran Khan sworn in as prime minister

    Imran Khan, a former cricket star and longtime politician, has been sworn in as Pakistan's prime minister despite protests by opposition parties,...

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  • Ghana mourns Annan, grandson of tribal chiefs to UN chief

    Ghana mourns Kofi Annan, the grandson of tribal chiefs who became the world's top diplomat

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  • Pakistan says Indian fire kills villager in Kashmir

    Pakistan's Foreign Ministry and officials say Indian troops have killed a Pakistani villager and wounded two others in "unprovoked firing" in the...

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