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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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  • Thai prison officials carry out first execution in 9 years

    Prison officials in Thailand say they have carried out the country's first execution in nine years, putting to death a convicted murderer by lethal...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 Wednesday

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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 month

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  • AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States

    AP Explains: War games between South Korea and United States

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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...

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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 crisis

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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...

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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."

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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...

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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 city

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 1993

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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...

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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...

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  • Lawyers, family seek release of detained pizza deliveryman

    Lawyers, family ask for release of detained Ecuadorean pizza delivery worker

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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...

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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 1993

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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...

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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.

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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 relations

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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 forces

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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...

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  • What is dragon boating?

    Dragon boating is more than 2,500 years old.

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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...

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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 leader

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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...

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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 people

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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...

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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...

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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 Hodeida

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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...

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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 vessels

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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.

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  • Macedonian government submits deal on new name to parliament

    Macedonia's government on Monday set in motion the process of ratifying an initial agreement with southern neighbor Greece to change its name to...

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  • US watchdog to pay anti-extremist UK group in settlement

    A liberal watchdog group is apologizing and paying more than $3 million after labeling a British organization and its founder as anti-Muslim...

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  • Bosnian police block 100 migrants from reaching Croatia

    Bosnian border police have stopped about 100 migrants from reaching the border with European Union member Croatia amid a rise in the influx of people...

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  • Israeli minister criticizes royal itinerary over Jerusalem

    Israeli minister criticizes royal itinerary for upcoming visit over Jerusalem status

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  • American remains missing in Vietnam after arrest during protest

    "I don't know where he is. Nobody knows for sure. That's a desperate situation," Victoria Nguyen told ABC station KTRK.

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  • Australian who irked Duterte wins appeal, still faces ouster

    The Philippine justice secretary has revoked an immigration expulsion order for an Australian nun who irked the Philippine president by joining...

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