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  • AP investigation: Children fight on front lines of Yemen war

    An AP investigation has found that thousands of children have been recruited by Yemen's Houthi rebels to fight in the country's civil war

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  • 16 crew rescued from cargo ship that ran aground off Turkey

    Turkish coastal safety teams have rescued 16 crew members from a cargo ship that ran aground off the Black Sea coast of Sile in a dramatic operation...

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  • Greece: France wins new round on Russian cybercrime suspect

    Greece's supreme court has accepted a French extradition request for a Russian bitcoin fraud suspect, whom the same court has, confusingly, already...

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  • US, China face off again at World Trade Organization

    The U.S. accused China of stealing technology.

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  • Poland signs 20-year deal to buy natural gas from the US

    Poland has signed a long-term deal with a U.S. company for supplies of liquefied natural gas as part of an effort to reduce its dependence on Russian...

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  • French police press for multimillion in overtime pay

    French authorities are suggesting they will bow to demands by police officers for decades of overtime pay, but officers nevertheless engaged in...

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  • EU reaches deal with Italy on budget

    The European Commission says it has reached an agreement with Italy to avert action over the country's budget plans, which the EU's executive arm had...

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  • UK opposition leader denies calling PM May 'stupid woman'

    Britain's main opposition leader is facing calls to apologize after he was accused of calling Prime Minister Theresa May a "stupid woman" in the House...

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  • Chechen critic fears for his life as he faces deportation

    A critic of Chechnya's ruler faces deportation from Poland as European nations become increasingly wary of sheltering refugees from Chechnya

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  • Der Spiegel says star reporter perpetrated years-long fraud

    German weekly Der Spiegel says one of its star reporters committed fraud "on a grand scale" in his work over a number of years

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  • US links ex-Serb police general with killing of 3 Americans

    The U.S. has linked a former Serbian police commander to the 1999 murder of three Albanian-American brothers and banned him and his family members...

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  • Germany tightens checks on foreign investment plans

    The German government is tightening rules on foreign investments in some sectors, including the media, to lower the threshold at which it can consider...

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  • Elections in the time of Ebola: Congo votes amid disease

    Elections in the time of Ebola: Congo prepares for Dec. 23 election; 'There are so many risks'

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  • Poll: Russians increasingly nostalgic for USSR

    An opinion survey has shown that two thirds of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union

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  • Israeli leader calls on UN to condemn Hezbollah over tunnels

    Israel's prime minister calls on U.N. Security Council to condemn "wanton acts of aggression" by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, designate it a...

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  • Former Merkel rival hints at interest in German govt job

    Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German leader has no plans to reshuffle her Cabinet after a one-time rival who narrowly lost the race...

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  • Saudi-led coalition bombs air base in Yemen's capital

    The Saudi-led coalition has bombed an air base in Yemen's rebel-held capital, as a local cease-fire holds around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida

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  • South African police issue arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe

    South African authorities issue arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe, accused of assaulting a woman in Johannesburg last year

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  • Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

    The government of Nepal is not permitting Italian contractors to leave the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed...

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  • South Sudan security forces strip, rob peace deal monitors

    South Sudan security forces strip, kick, rob peace deal monitors, internal report says

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  • Philippine rebels abduct 2 soldiers, several militiamen

    Philippine military officials say communist guerrillas abducted two soldiers and several militiamen and seized several rifles in an attack on an army...

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  • 10 detained in Estonia over massive money laundering

    Ten former employees of the Estonian branch of Danske Bank have been detained in connection with a probe into a major money laundering scandal that...

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  • Taliban say talks focus on US withdrawal from Afghanistan

    U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with the Taliban in the UAE this week.

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  • Russian security agency kills suspected IS cell members

    The FSB said it tracked down a group of suspected IS members in Stavropol.

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  • Japan wants Seoul's political decision on forced labor row

    Japan's top diplomat has urged South Korea's government to make a political decision to bring an end to their recent legal dispute stemming from that...

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  • Pope accepts resignation of LA bishop accused of misconduct

    The bishop was the subject of allegations of misconduct with a minor.

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  • Volkswagen shakes up management pay after diesel scandal

    Volkswagen says it is changing the pay system for its senior management, dropping personal performance bonuses and increasing the extent to which the...

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  • Madagascar goes to the polls in runoff presidential election

    Voters have begun casting their ballots are across the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar Wednesday to select a new president in a runoff...

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  • Ukraine secures new IMF loan after making reforms

    Ukraine's president says that the International Monetary Fund has approved a new loan installment for the country

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  • Poland says 11 sailors kidnapped off Nigeria are now free

    Poland's Foreign Ministry says 11 crew members of a ship who were taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Nigeria are now free and will be reunited...

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  • Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case

    The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance...

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  • No attempts at forming a new government this year in Sweden

    Sweden's parliament speaker says no attempts at forming a new government will be made this year, more than three months after elections that left the...

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  • German Cabinet approves plan to expand job-seeker visas

    Germany's Cabinet has approved a plan to expand a system of visas allowing people from outside the European Union to seek jobs as it tries to tackle a...

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  • Pope accepts resignation of Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Alexander Salazar, accused of misconduct with a minor in 1990s

    Pope accepts resignation of Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Alexander Salazar, accused of misconduct with a minor in 1990s

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  • Media freedom group records increase in journalists killed

    Media freedom group Reporters Without Borders says it has recorded an increase in the number of journalists killed and imprisoned worldwide this year

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  • US official says Washington reviewing North Korea travel ban

    The Trump administration's special envoy for North Korea says Washington is reviewing easing its strict travel restrictions to North Korea to...

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  • UK inflation eases but outlook depends on Brexit

    Official figures show that consumer prices rose in November by their weakest rate in 21 months, a development that's likely to cheer consumers as they...

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• Dec 19

  • Swedish TV: Witness in killings of UN experts poisoned

    Swedish broadcaster SVT says a key witness to the murder in Congo of two UN experts was poisoned in custody, citing a new confidential report by the...

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  • Report: 53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018

    The number killed worldwide in retaliation for their work nearly doubled.

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  • Germany arrests Russian suspected of breaching arms embargo

    German prosecutors say customs officials have arrested a 68-year-old Russian man on suspicion of exporting goods suitable for missile construction to...

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  • Pakistan takes steps to avoid terror finance blacklist

    The government has approved fresh measures to avoid being blacklisted.

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  • Belgian king consults party leaders after PM offers to quit

    Belgium's King Philippe is consulting leaders of political parties to work out who should govern the country until the next elections after Prime...

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  • SoftBank mobile subsidiary has bitter debut on Tokyo market

    SoftBank mobile subsidiary suffers bitter debut on the Tokyo market, slumping 15 percent after it reportedly raised $23 billion

    Dec 19

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  • GSK, Pfizer to merge their healthcare divisions

    Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are merging their healthcare divisions, creating a business with combined sales of 9.8 billion pounds ($12.7...

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  • Singapore bans former Goldman Sachs exec with 1MDB links

    Singapore issues lifetime ban on former Goldman Sachs banker facing 1MDB charges in US and Malaysia

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  • AP PHOTOS: Turkey's whirling dervishes honor Sufi poet

    AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervishes commemorate the life of Sufi poet Jalaladdin Rumi

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  • Children fight, kill and die in Yemen's civil war

    The Houthis have inducted 18,000 child soldiers into their army since 2014.

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  • Trust for US bondholders sues Venezuela over defaulted debt

    A trust representing holders of Venezuelan bonds has gone to New York federal court demanding payment on more than $34 million in unpaid debt

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  • AP PHOTOS: Editors' picks for 2018 from Asia

    AP PHOTOS: Editors' picks for the best images of 2018 from Asia

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• Dec 18

  • Madagascar begins voting in runoff presidential election between 2 former leaders

    Madagascar begins voting in runoff presidential election between 2 former leaders

    Dec 18