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  • The Latest: UN chief appeals for calm in US-Iran standoff

    The UN says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is asking all parties involved in escalating tensions between the US and Iran 'to lower the rhetoric...

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  • Palestinians say US conference doomed without political plan

    Palestinians say any US peace plan that does not give them an independent state is doomed to fail, casting a cloud over a conference planned for next...

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  • Austrian government heads for collapse over video scandal

    Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Monday he is seeking the removal of the country's interior minister over a video scandal that has rocked the...

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  • US backs calls for Taiwan to get role at UN health assembly

    The United States is backing calls for Taiwan to be granted observer status at the U.N. health agency's biggest annual gathering, the U.S. health...

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  • Reports: Iran quadruples production of enriched uranium

    Semi-official news agencies in Iran are reporting that Iran has quadrupled its production of enriched uranium amid tensions with the U.S. over an...

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  • A person scales the Eiffel Tower, an explosion in Egypt: World in Photos

    Here's a look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Venezuela says passengers missing after Caribbean sinking

    Venezuelan official says a small boat carrying at least 20 people sank in Caribbean coastal waters and that most of those on board are missing

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  • Journalists quit Russia's leading business daily over report

    Leading journalists at Russia's main business daily newspaper say they have been forced to quit over an article that predicted the resignation of the...

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  • The Latest: Austrian leader expects far right to quit gov't

    Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he expects the far-right Freedom Party to leave his government as it has threatened to do.

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  • Inmate sentenced to death will get new trial in 1997 slaying

    A 49-year-old man sentenced to death will get a new trial in the 1997 slaying of a Cincinnati convenience store owner

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  • Key events raising tensions in the Persian Gulf

    Key events in the recent escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran

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  • Antarctica, climate change in the spotlight

    A firsthand look into the impact global warming is having on the continent.

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  • Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he wants to fire interior minister over video scandal that's rocked government

    Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he wants to fire interior minister over video scandal that's rocked government

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  • Brexiteer Farage splattered in latest UK milkshake attack

    Pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage has been hit with a milkshake while campaigning in the European Parliament election

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  • Work underway on British tanker sunk by U-boat off NY in WW2

    The U.S. Coast Guard says work is underway to extract oil from a British tanker sunk by a German U-boat off Long Island during World War II

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  • AP EXPLAINS: Science of uranium enrichment amid Iran tension

    AP EXPLAINS: A look at the science of uranium enrichment as tensions rise between the United States and Iran

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  • UN agency threatens to suspend aid to rebel areas in Yemen

    The UN food agency is threatening to suspend aid to areas under the control of Yemen's Houthi rebels, if they do not take measures against theft and...

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  • Italy's Catholic establishment faults Salvini for rosary

    Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is defending his invocation of God at a political rally, after Italy's Catholic establishment criticized it as a...

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  • Armenian ex-president's case sent to higher court

    An Armenian court has halted proceedings in the trial of the country's former president in connection with a deadly police crackdown and transferred...

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  • Cyprus' communist-rooted former president critically ill

    Cyprus' Health Ministry says the east Mediterranean island nation's former president Dimitris Christofias is being treated in hospital in critical...

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  • Lebanese budget protesters clash with security in Beirut

    Lebanese security forces have opened heavy water cannons on anti-austerity protests in the capital city, as the government faces a looming fiscal...

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  • Iraqi Shiite figures warn US-Iran war could 'burn' Iraq

    Shiite figures in Iraq warn against attempts to pull their country into war between US, Iran

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  • Iranian semi-official news agencies, quoting nuclear official, say Iran quadruples production of low-enriched uranium

    Iranian semi-official news agencies, quoting nuclear official, say Iran quadruples production of low-enriched uranium

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  • The Latest: Ukrainian party criticizes new president

    A party that was part of a ruling coalition in Ukraine has criticized the newly sworn president's decision to disband parliament and call a snap...

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  • Sudanese general's path to power ran through Darfur

    Sudanese general now deputy head of ruling military council closely linked to ongoing conflict in Darfur

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  • Chinese official hands over new panda to Vienna zoo

    A senior Chinese official has officially handed over a 19-year-old male giant panda to Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo

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  • UK bans nationals from entering or remaining in war-torn Syria

    The Home Secretary cited the global terrorism threat in a speech Monday.

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  • World Beard and Moustache Championship unites facial hair aficionados

    "Thou shalt not shave": Facial hair aficionados from around the world compete in the World Beard and Moustache Championship.

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  • Comedian sworn in as Ukraine's president, dissolves Parliament

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a landslide victory in elections last month

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  • Mexico calls for regional development to address immigration

    Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says United States support for economic development in Mexico and Central America is that county's best...

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  • US aircraft carrier seen as barometer of tensions with Iran

    Ordered to the Persian Gulf, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has become a 100,000-ton barometer of the tensions between Iran and the US

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  • The Latest: North Macedonia finds migrants hiding in truck

    Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered eight migrants crammed into a hidden compartment in the roof of a truck, during a routine search at...

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  • Maldives court annuls ex-VP's conviction in boat explosion

    A court in the Maldives has set aside the conviction and 15-year prison term given the former vice president on allegations he conspired to...

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  • NATO member Estonian reports alleged Russian air violation

    The Baltic region's main news agency says a Russian military aircraft briefly violated the airspace of NATO member Estonia, near the Baltic Sea island...

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  • TV comedian Zelenskiy sworn in as Ukraine's president

    TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been sworn in as Ukraine's next president

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  • Russia: Spy arrests reflect anti-corruption fight

    The Kremlin says the arrest of three senior officers of Russia's top spy agency reflects a no-holds-barred fight against corruption

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  • Indonesian court sentences Frenchman to death for drugs

    An Indonesian court has sentenced a Frenchman to death for smuggling 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) of drugs to the tourist island of Lombok

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  • Prominent Congolese politician Katumbi returns from exile

    A Congolese businessman and onetime presidential hopeful has returned home after three years in political exile

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  • Pakistan ends offshore drilling after no gas, oil were found

    Pakistan's ministry of petroleum says authorities are ending offshore drilling off the Karachi coast in the Arabian Sea after no reservoirs of oil and...

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  • EU rejects claim that its car exports threaten US security

    The EU is rejecting claims that Europe's car exports pose a threat to the United States after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross rule that imported...

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  • German central bank expects feeble growth in second quarter

    Germany's central bank says it expects the country's economy, Europe's biggest, to turn in a feeble performance in the current quarter after returning...

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  • Denmark: Syrian man gets jail for terror planning

    A 32-year-old Syrian man has been given a 12-year prison sentence for planning to explode one or more bombs in Copenhagen and stabbing random people...

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  • 7 dead in southern Mali after attack near Burkina Faso

    Authorities in Mali say at least seven people are dead after an attack in Koury, near the West African country's troubled border with Burkina Faso

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  • Sweden asks for detention of WikiLeaks' Assange

    A Swedish prosecutor has requested a detention order against Julian Assange

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  • Across the Pond: Tourist bus bombed near Giza pyramids in Egypt

    Plus, India's giant elections wrap up, and Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan celebrate their first anniversary.

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  • 5 Catalan separatist leaders escorted to Spanish Parliament

    The five separatist leaders on trial for Catalonia's 2017 secession attempt who were elected to the Spanish Parliament last month picked up their...

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  • Polish court says founders of financial scam guilty of fraud

    A Polish court says the two founders of a notorious pyramid scheme are guilty of fraud for cheating thousands of people out of their savings, worth...

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  • Kashmir group seeks UN probe into torture by India troops

    Kashmir human rights group advocates for a UN investigation of what it calls an endemic use of torture by government forces in the disputed region

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  • Retrial of 'Sharia police' suspects opens in Germany

    Seven men accused of posing as a self-styled "Sharia police" in Germany have gone on trial for the second time, facing charges that they violated...

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