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  • 11 die as elevator cable snaps at work site in north China

    Chinese state media say 11 workers were killed and two seriously injured when the cable on an elevator snapped at a construction site in northern...

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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before heading to talks

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before heading to talks

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  • Japan's new emperor Naruhito: A cosmopolitan team player

    Japan's new emperor is a team player, musician and historian who will bring a global perspective to an ancient institution

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  • Australia leader plays down terror threat at Gallipoli event

    Australia's prime minister plays down any potential link between the arrest of an a suspected Islamic State group member in Turkey and a World War I...

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  • Russian-North Korean relations since the Korean War

    Russian-North Korean relations since the Korean War

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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostok for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostok for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

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  • Syrian woman in wheelchair tells UN disabled are invisible

    A 20-year-old Syrian woman with cerebral palsy says hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities already "were forgotten in times of peace" _ and...

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  • Nissan ex-chair Ghosn's release on bail approved by court

    Japanese court has approved the release for detained Nissan ex-chair Carlos Ghosn on bail; prosecutors can appeal

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  • Japan father, son win release before US trial in Ponzi case

    A judge says a father and son from Japan can be freed from federal custody to live with relatives in a rented apartment in Las Vegas pending trial in...

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  • Japanese court approves release for detained Nissan ex-chair Carlos Ghosn on 500 million yen, or $4.5 million, bail

    Japanese court approves release for detained Nissan ex-chair Carlos Ghosn on 500 million yen, or $4.5 million, bail

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  • Puerto Rico gov slams Trump, seeks swifter storm recovery

    Puerto Rico's governor is pledging to lift the U.S. territory from a deep recession by creating more jobs, reversing a migration exodus and...

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  • The Latest: Body of Japanese victim returned from Sri Lanka

    Body of Japanese victim killed in Sri Lanka bombing has been returned home; foreign ministry says 4 other Japanese were hurt

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  • 2 firms first to export LatAm medicinal marijuana to Europe

    Companies from Uruguay and Colombia will become the first in Latin America to export medical marijuana products to Europe

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  • Sri Lankan woman loses most of her family in Easter bombings

    In an instant, the Easter Sunday bombings left Anusha Kumari childless and a widow; still bandaged and hooked up to an IV, she said she had had the...

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  • Radicalization among Sri Lanka's Muslims was slow and steady

    Radicalization among a sliver of Sri Lanka's Muslims has been a longtime concern, but political disarray and security lapses helped cultivate fertile...

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  • Prince William lays Anzac wreath, later to visit NZ mosques

    Britain's Prince William has laid a wreath at an Anzac Day service in New Zealand and will later visit survivors of last month's mosque attacks

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  • Idaho soldier assigned to Colorado Army post dies in Iraq

    The U.S. military says an Idaho soldier assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado, has died in a noncombat incident in Iraq

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  • Guatemala nixes presidential bid of politician nabbed in US

    Guatemala's electoral court has annulled the candidacy of a presidential hopeful arrested in the U.S. last week and accused of ties to Mexico's...

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  • Sudan military says 3 members of ruling council resign

    Sudan's ruling military council says three of its members have resigned amid heightened tensions with the organizers of protests that toppled...

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  • Armenian Americans in California demand genocide recognition

    Throngs of Armenian Americans are marching in Los Angeles in an annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a...

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  • In Mexico, migrants turn to 'The Beast' after highway raids

    Mexican police raids that grabbed up hundreds of migrants has dissolved a caravan of some 3,000 Central Americans, leading them to look for other ways...

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  • Indigenous Brazilians gather to protest outside Congress

    Hundreds of indigenous Brazilians are gathering outside Brazilian Congress for an annual three-day campout protest known as the Free Land Encampment

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  • Business group: Nicaragua's economy in 'free fall'

    Nicaragua's leading business association says that the country's economy is in "free fall" a year after anti-government protests were violently...

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  • Jaguar recovery plan envisions sprawling habitat areas

    A plan by wildlife officials to bolster the endangered jaguar population in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico by establishing two sprawling habitat areas...

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  • Iran minister: Trump's aim is talks, Bolton wants conflict

    Iran's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's aim "is to bring us to our knees to talk" _ but that national security adviser John Bolton and...

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  • German woman, son found dead in Canary island cave

    Spain's Civil Guard says the bodies of a German woman and her 10-year-old son have been found in a cave in the Canary island of Tenerife

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  • Incredible timelapse of moon setting in Saudi Arabia

    Timelapse captures shadows the setting moon cast in Saudi Arabia and a view of the stars above the Sharaan mountains.

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  • Iranian minister makes public prisoner swap offer to US

    Iran's top diplomat has made public an offer to the U.S. government for a prisoner swap that he says he made six months ago

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  • Kosovo women returned from Syria face house arrest

    Nearly 20 women repatriated from Syria ordered put under house arrest after prosecutors said they are suspected of joining or taking part in the...

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  • Prosecutor: St Patrick's suspect booked hotel near Vatican

    A prosecutor says a college philosophy teacher accused of entering St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan with gasoline cans, lighter fluid and butane...

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  • Baby elephant, sports triumphs and Sri Lanka: World in Photos

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

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  • Facebook officials will attend Paris summit to combat spread of terror online

    New Zealand PM is calling on tech companies to support "Christchurch Call."

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  • Sri Lanka shakes up top security posts after deadly bombings

    Sri Lanka's president is shaking up the country's top security establishment after officials failed to act on intelligence reports warning of possible...

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  • Chernobyl nuclear disaster: April 28, 1986

    Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged.

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  • The Latest: Attorney: St Patrick's suspect was 'psychotic'

    A defense attorney says the college teacher accused of trying to burn down St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan suffered a "psychotic episode" last...

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  • Gunmen attack migrant detention center in Libya's Tripoli

    Gunmen have attacked a detention center holding hundreds of migrants in Libya's capital, where fighting has raged between rival militias since a...

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  • Indian court lifts ban on Chinese social media app TikTok

    An Indian court has lifted its ban on Chinese social media video-sharing app TikTok on the condition that the platform popular with teenagers would...

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  • Italy requests EU plan against migrant wave from Libya

    Italy's government has written to the European Union asking it to prepare a plan of action to face a possible new wave of migrants escaping from the...

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  • London climate protesters say they will end their blockades

    Climate change protesters who brought parks of central London to a standstill for several days say they will end their blockades

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  • The Latest: Kim hopes for "successful" summit with Putin

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has stepped out of his khaki-green armored train in far-eastern Russia, smiling and upbeat ahead of a much-anticipated...

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  • Man pleads guilty to shipping lizards from Philippines to US

    A New Hampshire man who smuggled rare lizards from the Philippines to the U.S. by hiding them in socks and placing them inside electronic equipment...

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  • Germany: Dry weather raises fears of forest fires, drought

    Meteorologists in Germany say rainfall forecast for the coming days is unlikely to provide much relief to parched fields and forests, raising fears of...

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  • Russia offers Ukrainians in conflict zones quick citizenship

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to expedite applications for Russian citizenship by Ukrainians living in separatist-held areas

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  • EU ambassador: Trump Cuba policy worries European companies

    The European Union's ambassador to Cuba says the Trump administration's crackdown on business with the communist government is causing unprecedented...

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  • UK and Irish leaders attend funeral of journalist Lyra McKee

    Lyra McKee was shot dead by the New IRA, a paramilitary group.

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  • US WWII bomb detonated in Germany, causing widespread damage

    The detonation of an American World War II bomb in the southern German city of Regensburg early Wednesday has caused widespread damage to nearby...

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  • Highly educated and financially independent: Profile of Sri Lanka bombers emerge

    One of the bombers was a woman.

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  • Doctors at Ebola epicenter in Congo threaten strike

    Doctors at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola crisis are threatening to go on strike indefinitely if health workers are attacked again

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  • Scottish leader aims to hold new independence vote by 2021

    Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon says she wants to hold a new referendum on independence from the U.K. by 2021 if Britain leaves the European Union,...

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  • Japan apologizes to forcibly sterilized people, vows redress

    Japan's government has apologized to tens of thousands of people forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law and promised to pay...

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