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  • Tanzanian ferry sinks in Lake Victoria, at least 44 dead

    A Tanzanian passenger ferry has capsized on Lake Victoria and the death toll of 44 is expected to rise when rescue efforts resume

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  • Iran's domestic car market stalls as nuclear deal falters

    As Iran's currency, the rial, plummets against US dollar, cars are growing more and more expensive in Iran

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  • Maldives prepares for polls seen as test for young democracy

    A decade after people took to the streets to welcome democracy to Maldives, voters head to the polls Sunday in what observers say is a referendum on...

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  • Timeline of political events leading up to Maldives election

    Timeline of political events leading up to Maldives election

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  • Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang dead at 61 due to illness

    Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died of a serious illness at age 61

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  • Official media say Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61 due to illness

    Official media say Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61 due to illness

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  • AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asia

    AP Photos: Typhoon Mangkhut's onslaught, North Korean summit, Buddhist holiday

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  • Empty places at the table: Uighur children missing in China

    Empty places at the table: Uighur parents anguish over their missing children, who likely are growing up as wards of China's Communist Party

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  • China's Uighurs despair of children's fate in hands of state

    In China's far west, authorities are distancing Muslim children from their families by putting them in dozens of orphanages and boarding schools

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  • Philippine villages at risk of landslides forcibly evacuated

    Philippine troops and police forcibly evacuated villages vulnerable to landslides after the collapse of a mountainside buried homes and killed at...

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  • Head of Chinese energy agency snared in graft probe

    Head of Chinese energy planning agency suspected of corruption, Communist Party says

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

    AP PHOTOS: Guatemalans protest president's assault on anti-graft commission, Puerto Ricans mourn a year after Hurricane Maria's ravages, Mexicans...

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

    AP PHOTOS: Guatemalans protest president's assault on anti-graft commission, Puerto Ricans mourn a year after Hurricane Maria's ravages, Mexicans...

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  • Despite strong laws, domestic violence in Brazil is rampant

    Despite Brazil's strong laws to protect women, domestic violence is rampant in Latin America's largest nation and may be getting worse

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  • A Kim Jong Un visit to Seoul? It would be surreal challenge

    A Kim Jong Un visit to Seoul, as he promised this week at his summit with South Korea's president, would be a surreal challenge, if it happens

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  • Researchers say they're closing in on Captain Cook's ship

    Researchers say they've identified a site off the coast of Rhode Island where they think the ship that 18th-century explorer Capt James Cook used to...

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  • China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west

    In China's far west, authorities are distancing Muslim children from their families by putting them in dozens of orphanages and boarding schools

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  • Indonesia imposes moratorium on new palm oil plantations

    Indonesia's president has signed a moratorium on new palm oil development and ordered a review of existing plantations in a blow to an industry blamed...

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  • Puerto Rico marks 1 year since Maria with song and sadness

    Puerto Ricans mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria with choirs, protests and a funeral procession

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  • In China's far west, authorities are distancing Muslim children from their families with orphanages, boarding schools

    In China's far west, authorities are distancing Muslim children from their families with orphanages, boarding schools

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  • Colombian police shut down Pablo Escobar museum

    Colombian police have shut down a small museum that showcased the life and times of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying the building's managers...

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  • Police papers say Toronto shooter 'emotionally disturbed'

    Newly released Canadian police documents say the man who went on a shooting rampage that killed two people and wounded 13 in Toronto was an...

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  • Sex offenders want to be deported but California keeps them

    A newspaper reports that about 30 men in the country illegally and with sex crime records remain in custody in California despite having completed...

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  • Cardinal hires judge to review church sex abuse policies

    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has hired a former federal judge to review its procedures and protocols for handling allegations of sexual...

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  • Canada declares Myanmar treatment of Rohingya to be genocide

    Canada's Parliament has unanimously adopted a motion declaring crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be genocide

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  • Glacier collapsing in Greenland: Time lapse video

    The Helheim glacier calved, creating several smaller icebergs.

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  • Florida student pilot charged with attempt to steal plane

    Officials say a 22-year-old student pilot suspected of boarding a vacant Airbus 321 American Airlines aircraft at a central Florida airport has been...

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  • Turkey frees prominent opposition lawmaker Berberoglu

    A Turkish court has released a prominent lawmaker from the main opposition party who had been sentenced to more than five years in prison for...

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  • Bus driver slaps boy who insulted him

    A bus driver faces disciplinary actions for slapping a boy who insulted him.

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  • Dozens injured on Indian flight after plane loses cabin pressure

    Thirty-six people were reportedly injured, and five were taken to a hospital.

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  • Guatemalan protesters demand Morales reverse on graft body

    Thousands are marching in Guatemala to protest President Jimmy Morales' decision to end the work of a U.N. commission investigating corruption in the...

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  • Anti-abuse activists pan US Catholic bishops' new proposals

    Lawyers and advocates for victims of clergy sex-abuse are assailing as inadequate some new steps announced by U.S. Catholic bishops to curtail the...

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  • Maria's death toll climbed long after rain stopped

    After Hurricane Maria, hundreds of Puerto Ricans with treatable ailments like bedsores and kidney problems died agonizing deaths after going without...

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  • Israeli delegation in Moscow to share data on plane downing

    A high-level Israeli military delegation is visiting Moscow to present detailed information related to the downing of a Russian warplane by Syrian...

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  • 9 people, including immigrants in US illegally, die in crash

    Authorities say nine people, including seven who were in the U.S. illegally, were killed in a head-on collision on an Arizona highway

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  • Washington calls for the release of scientist in Turkey

    The United States has called for the immediate release of a NASA scientist who was arrested in southern Turkey for alleged links to Fethullah Gulen,...

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  • The Latest: Dozens dead after ferry sinks on Lake Victoria

    The Latest: Dozens dead after ferry sinks on Lake Victoria, Tanzania official says

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  • Tanzania regional official says at least 44 dead after ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria

    Tanzania regional official says at least 44 dead after ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria

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  • The Latest: Russia says 3,000 Syrians back home in last week

    The Russian military says that over 3,000 Syrians have returned to their homes over the past week

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  • UN chief: No inter-Korean success without US-NKorea success

    Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says negotiations between the two Koreas won't be successful unless there is simultaneous success in US-North...

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  • Judge refuses to delay US trial of 'El Chapo'

    A U.S. judge has rejected a request to put off the trial of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman

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  • Nebraska agencies aiding refugees living in squalor

    Social service agencies are scrambling to help up to 500 refugees who may have to find new places to live because of the squalid conditions in their...

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  • North and South Korean leaders cap 3-day summit with sacred mountain trek

    South Korean president wraps up 3-day Pyongyang visit

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  • Dozens injured on flight after plane loses cabin pressure

    Thirty-six people were reportedly injured, and five were taken to a hospital.

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  • Trump suggested Spain build African Sahara wall to stop migrants, minister says

    Spain has no sovereignty over the desert.

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  • Plight of jailed Catalans strains dialogue with Spain

    Jailed separatists have become an emotional symbol for the Catalan independence movement and a key stumbling block in negotiations with Spain out of...

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  • Catalan separatists mark anniversary of independence push

    Thousands of Catalan pro-independence activists are protesting in Barcelona to mark the anniversary of demonstrations that fired up the region's...

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  • Retired Illinois priest faces deportation over illegal vote

    A retired priest in Illinois is facing deportation to England for what he says was mistakenly voting 12 years ago

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  • Defense expo reflects troubles for South African military

    Defense expo reflects troubles for South African military, 1 of continent's biggest spenders

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  • Egypt court orders release of former president's sons

    Egyptian court orders release from detention of former president Hosni Mubarak's two sons

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