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  • South Korea bans driving BMWs under recall due to fires

    South Korea bans driving recalled BMWs that haven't received safety checks following fires the German automaker has blamed on a faulty exhaust gas...

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  • German economy grew by 0.5 percent in 2nd quarter

    Official data show that the German economy grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter compared with the previous three-month period, accelerating...

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  • Beijing: Anti-China forces are criticizing Uighur crackdown

    China is blaming "anti-China forces" for the growing criticism of Beijing's policies in a far western region where large groups of ethnic Uighurs are...

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  • Australia archbishop gets house detention for abuse cover-up

    The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse has been ordered by an Australian court to serve his 1-year sentence in...

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  • Maduro: Gas prices to spike in Venezuela to fight smugglers

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says some of the world's cheapest gasoline that his country's drivers enjoy will soon be sold at world market...

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  • Clues but no answers in one of Syria war's biggest mysteries

    Fate of missing activist Razan Zaitouneh is among longest-running mysteries of Syria's civil war

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  • Wyoming officials oppose returning war-trophy church bells

    Elected officials from Wyoming oppose plans to return church bells seized as war trophies from the Philippines over a century ago

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  • Seattle airplane theft prompts review of security measures

    The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industrywide review of how to thwart such...

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  • Malaysia PM on China, Rohingya, Singapore, graft and sea row

    Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad commented on lopsided China-backed projects, treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, the South China Sea...

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  • Malaysia eyes more than 10-fold hike in Singapore water deal

    Malaysia's prime minister seeking to hike the price of water sold to the neighboring country of Singapore by more than 10 times as his country...

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  • Now with power to long rule China, Xi beset by challenges

    Just months ago, president cleared the way for himself to rule in perpetuity.

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  • Ex-Gitmo detainee now selling sweets in Uruguay capital

    One of the men formerly held at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp has opened a sweets stand in the Uruguayan capital

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  • Ontario allowing pot sales in private retail stores April 1

    Canada's most populous province says it will allow the sale of cannabis in private retail stores next April and the online sale of pot this fall

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  • US wheat from Pacific Northwest heading to war-torn Yemen

    Seven ships loaded with wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest of the United States are sailing for Yemen, where a stalemated three-year civil war has...

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  • Uzbek man gets 20 more years for trying to kill warden

    An Uzbek refugee serving 25 years in prison for plotting to helping a foreign terrorist group has been sentenced to another 20 years for trying to...

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  • Argentina's Fernandez denies charges in corruption case

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is denying any wrongdoing following recent accusations that she was responsible for a corruption scheme...

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  • US soldier in Afghanistan dies from roadside blast

    The Army Green Beret is the fifth U.S. casualty in Afghanistan this year.

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  • Why Turkey's currency is plunging and what it means

    A look at why Turkey's currency is tumbling and what it means for the country and the rest of the world.

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  • Man charged in Flint airport stabbing wants trial moved

    A man accused of stabbing a police officer at a Michigan airport wants his trial moved to Detroit

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  • UK Labour leader under fire over Palestinian wreath-laying

    British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, facing allegations of enabling anti-Semitism, has acknowledged he was present at a wreath-laying to...

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  • FEMA says it didn't treat Puerto Ricans differently

    FEMA says it didn't handle housing vouchers for displaced residents of Puerto Rico any differently from those of displaced Texas and Florida residents...

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  • Northeast governors, eastern Canada premiers meet in Vermont

    A group of northeastern governors and premiers from eastern Canada are meeting in Vermont, where they are discussing a variety of joint issues, amid a...

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  • Israel detains prominent Jewish-American critic at airport

    A prominent Jewish-American commentator who has been critical of Israel's policies says he was detained by Israeli airport authorities and...

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  • China to UN panel: No arbitrary detention in Uighur region

    China is insisting that there is no "arbitrary detention" and there are no "re-education centers" in the Xinjiang region after a U.N. human rights...

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  • UAE responds to AP report on deals with al-Qaida in Yemen

    The United Arab Emirates says it is actively fighting al-Qaida's branch in Yemen after an Associated Press report outlined how Emirati forces cut...

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  • EU seeks safe harbor for ship carrying 141 rescued migrants

    The European Commission says it is contact with a number of member states to identify a country willing to take 141 migrants picked up by a rescue...

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  • Israeli teen admits to desecrating WWII death camp in Poland

    A police spokesman in eastern Poland says an Israeli teen has admitted to dropping his pants at the former Nazi German death camp of Majdanek and is...

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  • Key Afghan city turned into 'ghost town' by deadly battles

    Afghanistan's defense minister and witnesses say hundreds of people have fled four days of fierce fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban in...

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  • The Latest: UN: More than 130 killed in Syria in recent days

    The United Nations says at least 134 people, including many children, were killed over the weekend in northern Syria

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  • Israel protests to Romania after tourists beaten by police

    Israel's embassy has protested an incident involving four Israeli tourists who were dragged out of a taxi and beaten during a recent protest that...

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  • Soap bubble street art, a hot dog line and Tiger Woods: World in Photos

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

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  • Minister in Poland calls LGBT march a 'parade of sodomites'

    Poland's right-wing defense minister has used the term "sodomites" to describe the recent LGBT rights march while giving an interview on a...

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  • Syria vows to help refugees return, wants sanctions lifted

    Syrian government officials have vowed to ensure the safe return of refugees and are urging Western countries to encourage the process by lifting...

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  • Turkey tries to contain crisis but currency keeps falling

    Turkey's Central Bank has announced a series of measures to help banks manage their liquidity, after the country's finance chief said the government...

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  • The Latest: Scores killed in battle for key Afghan city

    After four days of fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban, the country's defense minister says the battle for control of a key city has...

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  • The Latest: Malta rescues 114 migrants from sinking dinghy

    Malta's armed forces say that a patrol boat has rescued 114 migrants aboard a rubber dinghy taking on water 53 nautical miles south of the...

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  • Court orders former Armenian president released from jail

    The lawyer for former Armenian president Robert Kocharian says he has been released from custody on a court order

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  • Tunisian leader backs equal inheritance rights for women

    Tunisia's president has promised to submit a bill to parliament that aims to give women equal inheritance rights with men, as debate over the topic of...

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  • Syria explosion kills 69, including 17 children

    The explosion happened on Sunday morning in the town of Sarmada, when a weapons depot in the basement of an apartment building detonated, according to...

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  • Germany's Merkel slaps down talk of working with leftists

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slapped down an ally's suggestion that her conservatives could work with the post-communist Left Party in the...

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  • Flooding in Sudan kills 23 people, injures 61

    Sudanese medics say at least 23 people have been killed in heavy flooding in the past three weeks

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  • Iran's top leader says no war or talks with US

    Iran's supreme leader says his country will neither go to war nor enter into negotiations with the United States as the Trump administration restores...

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  • Philippine president to visit Israel, meet Netanyahu

    Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has accepted an invitation to visit Israel next month in a sign of improving ties, which hit a sore spot early in...

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  • Azerbaijani court frees jailed political activist

    A court In Azerbaijan has released an opposition activist whose imprisonment has drawn international criticism

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  • The Latest: Germany urges solution on Turkish prisoners

    Germany's foreign minister says it would be in Turkey's own interest to come to an agreement with the United States and others on the release of...

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  • At least 69 killed in apartment building blast in Syria: Monitor

    A weapons depot in a basement exploded, monitoring group says.

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  • The Latest: Rival Koreas to meet in Pyongyang; date not set

    The rival Koreas have agreed to hold a third summit between their leaders in Pyongyang sometime before the end of September

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  • Glider plane crashes in French Alps, killing man and teen

    The French Alps' high mountain police force says a small glider plane has crashed despite "excellent" weather, killing two Austrians onboard

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  • Some 2,000 evacuated for removal of 3 WWII bombs in Poland

    More than 2,000 people were evacuated Monday while Polish navy experts removed three World War II bombs from the Baltic Sea bed at the vacation resort...

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  • Group urges international probe of 2013 crackdown in Cairo

    Human Rihts Watch urges international inquiry into 2013 Egyptian forces' violent dispersal of Islamist sit-in in Cairo

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