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  • Rescuer describes horror of New Zealand's silent eruption

    Rescuer Lillani Hopkins has described the harrowing time she spent helping those badly burned after this week's deadly volcanic eruption in New...

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  • Saudi Aramco starts trading, gaining 10 percent

    Saudi Arabia's oil company Aramco has gained 10% in its debut trading on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange

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  • French workers need to work until age 64 to get full pension

    France's prime minister says the minimum retirement age will remain 62, but workers will have to work until 64 to get a full pension

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  • New Zealand volcano vents steam, delays recovery of bodies

    A New Zealand volcano is venting more steam and mud after a deadly eruption two days ago

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  • France’s prime minister says government is increasing retirement age from 62 to 64 to get a full pension

    France’s prime minister says government is increasing retirement age from 62 to 64 to get a full pension

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  • Swiss Greens fail to enter government despite election gains

    Switzerland's Green party has failed in a bid to enter the country's government even after it made significant gains in an election in October

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  • Suu Kyi denies Myanmar genocide allegations at top UN court

    Former pro-democracy symbol Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar’s armed forces against genocide allegations over its crackdown on the country’s...

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  • EU to offer billions to help poorer member states cut CO2

    The president of the European Commission wants to offer 100 billion euros ($130 billion) to help member countries cut climate-warming emissions

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  • New Zealand orders 1.2 million sq cm of skin from US to treat volcano victims

    Some of the volcano victims have burns covering up to 90% of their bodies.

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  • Pakistani radical cleric indicted in terror financing case

    A Pakistani court has indicted a radical cleric implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and four of his associates on terror financing charges

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  • Suicide car bombing hits medical facility at Bagram military base, Afghanistan

    No U.S. or coalition casualties were reported after the attack.

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  • UK political leaders chase undecided voters on eve of vote

    British political leaders have risen early to pursue undecided voters on the eve of the general election

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  • Thai election body rules loan to opposition party illegal

    Thailand's Election Commission has ruled a popular opposition party broke the law by accepting an illegal loan from its head, a decision that could...

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  • Pakistan court orders release of ailing ex-President Zardari

    A Pakistani court has ordered the release of an ailing former president on bail on medical grounds, so that he can seek medical treatment at a...

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  • The Hague court questions Kosovo's outgoing speaker

    Kosovo's outgoing parliament speaker says he was questioned at a Netherlands-based court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after...

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  • The people sing: 'Les Mis' soothes, breaks Hong Kong hearts

    A Hong Kong theater troupe is making audiences weep by touring a stirring production of “Les Miserables

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  • Israeli parliament starts dissolving itself for 3rd election

    The Israeli parliament has begun the process of voting to dissolve the chamber and pave the path to an unprecedented third election within a year

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  • Experts quit police probe in blow to Hong Kong government

    Foreign experts recruited to add legitimacy to Hong Kong's police watchdog have quit, saying the agency lacks teeth

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  • Israel's parliament begins voting to dissolve itself, setting off the country's third election in a year

    Israel's parliament begins voting to dissolve itself, setting off the country's third election in a year

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  • UK political leaders chase undecided voters on eve of vote

    British political leaders have risen early to pursue undecided voters on the eve of the general election

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  • Volcanoes an ever-present, if usually distant danger

    The deadly eruption of a volcano in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty highlights an unpredictable but ever-present hazard posed by some 1,500 active...

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  • Spain: Residents told to stay indoors as fire engulfs plant

    There were no immediate reports of casualties.

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  • Suicide bomber hits gate of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

    The U.S. military says a suicide bombing has targeted a medical facility

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  • Turkey hints it could bar US from using key air bases

    The move could be in retaliation to possible U.S. sanctions against his country.

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  • Russia angered by Prague plans to build Vlasov monument

    A Prague district has approved a plan to build a monument to the soldiers of Gen. Andrei Vlasov's army, a move that has angered Russia

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  • The people sing: 'Les Mis' soothes, breaks Hong Kong hearts

    A Hong Kong theater troupe is making audiences weep by touring a stirring production of “Les Miserables

    Dec 11

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  • World's most valuable company, Saudi Aramco, starts trading after record-setting $25.6 billion initial public offering

    World's most valuable company, Saudi Aramco, starts trading after record-setting $25.6 billion initial public offering

    Dec 11

• Dec 11

  • No Christmas tinsel in Iraq, in solidarity with protesters

    Leaders of Iraq's Christian community have cancelled this year's Christmas-related celebrations in solidarity with the country's protest movement

    Dec 11

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  • No Christmas tinsel in Iraq, in solidarity with protesters

    Leaders of Iraq's Christian community have cancelled this year's Christmas-related celebrations in solidarity with the country's protest movement

    Dec 11

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  • No Christmas tinsel in Iraq, in solidarity with protesters

    Leaders of Iraq's Christian community have cancelled this year's Christmas-related celebrations in solidarity with the country's protest movement

    Dec 11

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  • Bougainville vote favors independence from Papua New Guinea

    The South Pacific region of Bougainville has voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea

    Dec 11

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  • Ex-Mexico security chief long haunted by corruption claims

    Mexico's former security chief was dogged by so many allegations of corruption and wrongdoing for so long that some said it was only a matter of time...

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  • Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea in nonbinding referendum

    Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea in nonbinding referendum

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• Dec 10

  • Afghan official says a powerful suicide bombing has targeted a U.S. military convoy near Bagram Air Base north of Kabul

    Afghan official says a powerful suicide bombing has targeted a U.S. military convoy near Bagram Air Base north of Kabul

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  • AP Interview: Taiwan may help if Hong Kong violence expands

    Taiwan’s top diplomat says his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for “freedom and democracy,” and would help those displaced from the...

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  • India’s crackdown hits religious freedom in disputed Kashmir

    The call to prayer at the central mosque in disputed Kashmir's largest city has been silent for four months

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  • Corruption allegations long dogged ex-Mexico security chief

    Mexico's former security chief was dogged by so many allegations of corruption and wrongdoing for so long that some said it was only a matter of time...

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  • Johnson dodges UK's health woes, wants to talk about Brexit

    Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to get his campaign back to the issue of Brexit amid allegations that he exploited a terrorist knife...

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  • Photo of sick boy on floor roils British election campaign

    A photo of a sick 4-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor because no beds were available has become one of the defining images of Britain’s...

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  • Afghanistan's Karzai tells AP that US cash fed corruption

    Afghanistan’s former president says Washington helped fuel corruption in his country by spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two...

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  • Alberto Fernández inaugurated as president of Argentina

    Alberto Fernández has assumed the presidency of Argentina, returning the country to the ranks of left-leaning nations in a moment of right-wing...

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  • Chile combs Antarctic for missing plane with 38 aboard

    Search crews are combing the Antarctic for a Chilean military transport plane carrying 38 people that vanished en route to a base on the frozen...

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  • In Mexico, effeminate Zapata painting draws fury

    A painting showing Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata nude and in an effeminate pose has drawn the ire of some of Zapata's descendants

    Dec 10

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  • Thousands rally around Holocaust survivor in Milan

    She's been put under police protection due to anti-Semitic threats.

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  • Landslide in Brazil capital spills 4 cars into building site

    A landslide at a construction site in Brazil's capital has tumbled four cars parked on an adjoining road into the excavation for a planned building

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  • Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest

    Austrian Author Peter Handke has received his Nobel Literature Prize amid criticism in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the...

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  • Man encounters avalanche while out for a run in Alberta

    The man was on a Lake Louise trail when an avalanche started barreling toward him.

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• Dec 10

  • Bloomberg tells UN climate talks: You can count on the US

    Billionaire businessman and Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg says most Americans want tougher action on climate change, an issue he...

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  • Voting with their feet: French march against pension reforms

    Thousands of people have marched through French cities as unions cranked up pressure against the government's retirement reforms. Paris deployed...

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  • Ready for prisoner swaps, Iran says US holding 20 Iranians

    Iran says American authorities are holding about 20 Iranian nationals in jail.

    Dec 10