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  • Ex-Sudan strongman al-Bashir gets 2 years for corruption

    A court in Sudan has convicted former President Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption, sentencing him to two years in a minimum-security...

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  • Alleged militants kill police officer in eastern Indonesia

    Alleged members of an Islamic militant group have shot a police officer to death in the latest assault targeting officials in the world's most...

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  • Boris Johnson heads north to celebrate crushing election win

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading to northern England to meet newly elected Conservative lawmakers

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  • Sudan court convicts Omar al-Bashir of money laundering, sentences him to 2 years in rehabilitation facility.

    Sudan court convicts Omar al-Bashir of money laundering, sentences him to 2 years in rehabilitation facility.

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  • Hong Kong police make 3 arrests in another explosives case

    Hong Kong police say they have arrested three men for testing homemade explosives they suspect were intended for use during protests

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  • Cries of abuse in Catholic Church start to be heard in Japan

    Harumi Suzuki and Katsumi Takenaka are among a handful of people who have gone public as survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse in Japan

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  • Insider attack kills 9 Afghan militia, officials say

    An Afghan official says at least one militia member has opened fire on his comrades, killing nine

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  • North Korea says it conducted another ‘crucial test’ at its long-range rocket facility

    North Korea says it conducted another ‘crucial test’ at its long-range rocket facility

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  • Explosion in south Nepal town kills 3, injures another 3

    An explosion at a house in a southern Nepal town has killed three people including the owner, his son and a police officer who responded to the call...

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  • New Zealand divers attempt to recover last 2 volcano victims

    Police divers working in near zero visibility in contaminated waters around New Zealand's volcanic White Island are trying to find the remaining two...

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  • Gang of gunmen on motorcycles kill head of Honduran prison

    A gang of gunmen on motorcycles killed the director of a prison in Honduras where a key witness against the president's brother was slain in October

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  • Brazil's women join in anthem denouncing sexual violence

    Brazilian women have staged demonstrations in the capital and in Rio de Janeiro, singing a song protesting sexual violence that has become an anthem...

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  • US Pacific commander says China seeks to intimidate region

    The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet says China's activities in territory it claims in the South China Sea are meant to coerce and bully other...

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  • New Zealand divers attempt to recover last 2 volcano victims

    Police divers have returned to the waters around New Zealand's volcanic White Island to search for the remaining two victims of an eruption that left...

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  • Iraq's top Shiite cleric condemns gruesome hanging of teen

    Iraq's top Shiite cleric has denounced the killing of a teenager whose body was strung up by his feet from a traffic pole in a Baghdad square

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  • Conservatives win big in UK election

    The Conservative Party headed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson won by a landslide in the UK general elections.

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  • Belgian carnival removed from UNESCO list over racism row

    A famous Belgian carnival has been removed from the U.N.'s cultural heritage list following complaints that last year's edition contained blatant...

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  • $66 million Klimt painting stolen 20 years ago may have been found

    The artwork was discovered in the Italian gallery from which it went missing.

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  • El Salvador court gives hefty sentences in mass gang trial

    A court in El Salvador has sentenced 373 convicted members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang to prison terms of up to 74 years

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  • UN official: Chilean police abused protester's human rights

    The United Nation's chief human rights agency says Chile's security forces abused protesters taking the streets in recent months

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  • Who is Greta Thunberg?

    The teen climate activist from Sweden was named Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year.

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  • Lawyers' attack on hospital leaves 3 dead

    The patients died during the attack after being left unattended.

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  • Johnson claims Brexit mandate with new conservative majority

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges to heal Britain's divisions over Brexit after his gamble on early election rewarded him with a commanding...

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  • Ex-PM elected Algeria's new president, to protesters' dismay

    Algeria's newly-elected president has vowed to reach out to pro-democracy protesters, who have massively taken to the streets again to challenge his...

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  • Boris Johnson wins UK election

    Johnson's Conservative Party won a huge victory in the closely watched election.

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  • El Salvador court gives hefty sentences in mass gang trial

    A court in El Salvador has sentenced 373 convicted members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang to prison terms of up to 74 years

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  • Afghan presidential candidate to allow ballot recount

    Afghanistan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says he has agreed to allow a ballot recount in provinces where his supporters had stopped the...

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  • Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to vote on Mayan Train project

    Residents of 84 municipalities in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula will vote this weekend on the government's ambitious Mayan Train project

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  • Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to vote on Mayan Train project

    Residents of 84 municipalities in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula will vote this weekend on the government's ambitious Mayan Train project

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  • White Island erupts, Miss Universe crowned, Sydney haze: World in Photos, Dec. 13

    A look at this week's top photos from around the globe,

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  • 3 of 4 men kidnapped from oil tanker off Africa released

    The managing company of a Greek-flagged oil tanker that was attacked by pirates off the coast of Togo last month says three of the four crew members...

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  • Lebanon's Hezbollah insists on a coalition government

    The head of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says the best emergency government to deal with the country's worsening economic crisis is one that...

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  • Losing Grimsby: Working-class towns desert UK's Labour Party

    Britain's Labour Party is grappling with its worst electoral defeat since 1935, and towns like Grimsby in eastern England are at the root of its...

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  • Having approved trade accord, Mexico expects US to do same

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he expects the U.S. Congress to approve the new regional trade agreement with his country and...

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  • Battle ahead: Scotland party leader vows independence push

    Newly re-elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a big challenge from the leaders of the Scottish independence movement

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  • Macron pushes ahead with pension plan amid damaging strikes

    French President Emmanuel Macron remains determined to push ahead with an overhaul of the nation's pension system despite more than a week of...

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  • The Latest: Macron: UK and EU will remain tied after Brexit

    French President Emmanuel Macron says Britain and Europe will remain inextricably tied even after Brexit, which is now set to take place on Jan. 31...

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  • Mediterranean pen shell listed as critically endangered

    A mussel species found only in the Mediterranean has been officially added to the list of critically endangered species for the first time

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  • Migration before and after new Trump policies

    One Salvadoran family’s migration to the United States over the past year illustrates the profound effect policy changes in the U.S., Mexico and...

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  • Baseball-sized hailstones leave holes in roof of home

    A massive hail storm struck the Gympie region in Queensland, Australia, with residents reporting hailstones up to 10 centimeters in diameter.

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  • UK vote eases corrosive uncertainty hurting businesses

    British businesses that have been hobbled for three years by fear and confusion over Brexit are getting a break

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  • Strike over troubled Alitalia grounds flights in Italy

    Hundreds of international and domestic flights in Italy have been cancelled as air transport workers held a nationwide strike to protest feared...

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  • Polish far-right leader arrested for inciting anti-Semitism

    Polish authorities say they have arrested a far-right leader and plan to charge him with public incitement of hatred against Jews

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  • Unions striking for Alitalia fix ground hundreds of flights

    Hundreds of international and domestic flights in Italy have been cancelled as air transport workers held a nationwide strike to protest feared...

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  • Turkmenistan passes new anti-corruption law

    Turkmenistan's president has signed a law that excludes prisoners convicted of corruption from state amnesties and pardons

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  • New Zealand recovers 6 bodies days after volcanic eruption

    Two people remain unaccounted for, police said.

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  • Hong Kong police slip on banana peel with tear gas tweet

    Hong Kong's police force has slipped on a banana peel by trying to make light of its liberal use of tear gas

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  • Authorities close Pakistani university after student killed

    Authorities in Pakistan's capital Islamabad have temporarily closed a major university

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  • EU leaders include nuclear energy in green transition

    European Union leaders have agreed that nuclear energy will be part of the bloc's solution to making its economy carbon neutral by 2050

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