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  • Not so funny: Edinburgh festivals canceled for first time

    The wildly popular festivals the Scottish capital of Edinburgh hosts every August have been canceled for this year as a result of the coronavirus...

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  • Iran general visits Baghdad, tries to forge political unity

    Iraqi officials say a top Iranian general has arrived in Baghdad this week to try and unify Iraq's fractured political leaders as stiff opposition by...

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  • Puerto Rico shutters police stations amid COVID-19 curfew

    Puerto Rico has closed its fifth police station in a week as officers accuse the government of exposing one of the largest police departments in a...

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  • LGBT community raided in Uganda over social distancing

    A gay rights leader in Uganda says 20 members of the local LGBT community have been detained after police raided their shelter and accused them of...

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  • Turkmenistan bans the word 'coronavirus': report

    The word won't be found anywhere in state-run media or public health bulletins.

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  • Syrian ex-VP, foreign minister dies of heart attack in Paris

    Arab media reports say Abdul-Halim Khaddam, Syria's former vice president and foreign minister who was one of the most influential figures in the...

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  • Virus gives asylum-seekers chance to thank Dutch villagers

    Raffat Altekrete is battling the coronavirus one shopping cart at a time

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  • Saudi official urges Muslims to delay hajj plans over virus

    A senior Saudi official has urged more than 1 million Muslims intending to travel to Islam's holiest sites to delay making plans for the hajj this...

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  • Roadside bombing in Afghanistan kills 8, mostly children

    An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has struck a minivan in southern Helmand province, killing at least eight civilians, including six children

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  • Life under lockdown is brutal for India's female day laborers

    "How can we do social distancing? It’s virtually impossible," residents say.

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  • US again accused of killing civilians in Somalia airstrikes

    The U.S. military is facing more allegations of killing civilians with airstrikes in Somalia, and now says it will address the issue more fully in...

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  • Dryness, sudden winds factors in deadly China forest fire

    Chinese officials say dry conditions, high temperatures and a sudden change in wind direction all contributed to the deaths of 19 people in a forest...

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  • Birds claim Peru beach emptied by virus outbreak

    Agua Dulce beach is usually a sea of humanity, packed with as many as 40,000 people a day at the height of Peru's Southern Hemisphere summer, which...

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  • AP PHOTOS: Indian migrants walk hundreds of miles to go home

    They were hungry. Some had not eaten for days. Others survived on water and biscuits. But they walked anyway for hundreds of miles, in groups of...

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  • Facebook joins resistance to Bolsonaro virus claims

    Major social media companies are taking aim at Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's dismissal of social distancing, joining others in the country who...

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  • Rights, press groups condemn killing of Mexican journalist

    Human rights and press freedom groups are condemning the murder of a Mexican journalist, at least the 12th such killing since the current president...

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  • Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region holds elections

    Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan controlled by ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia, has held presidential and parliamentary elections

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  • Toronto cancels city-led and permitted events to June 30

    Canada's largest city, Toronto, is canceling city-led and permitted events through June 30

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  • Toronto cancels city-led and permitted events to June 30

    Canada's largest city, Toronto, is canceling city-led and permitted events through June 30

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  • Residents in Italy hang baskets to help the poor during pandemic

    Italians assembled baskets to collect money for the unemployed.

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  • UN begins home food drops for Gaza's needy to stem virus

    A U.N. aid agency has begun delivering food to the homes of impoverished Palestinians instead of making them pick up such parcels at crowded...

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  • Syria: Air defenses down missiles from Israeli warplanes

    State media reports that Syrian air defenses have opened fire on missiles launched from Israeli warplanes on the central province of Homs, shooting...

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  • Ethiopia postpones major election because of coronavirus

    Ethiopia's election set for August has been postponed as the national election board says the coronavirus makes it impossible to prepare

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  • Coronavirus, train derailment, elephant forages: World in Photos, March 31

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • 'Spider-Man' runs the streets of England cheering kids up in coronavirus lockdown

    “There is nothing like helping the community.”

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  • Taliban team arrives in Kabul to monitor prisoner release

    A Taliban spokesman says a three-member technical team has arrived in the Afghan capital

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  • Poland to seek $1.5 billion from Russia's Gazprom

    Poland's state gas company says it will seek $1.5 billion from Russia's Gazprom after an international arbitration court in Stockholm said Gazprom was...

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  • Virus slump expected to rival big recessions in history

    The coronavirus-related recessions around the world are going to be bad

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  • 'Spider-Man' runs in the streets of England to cheer kids up

    Andrew Baldock, a martial arts teacher, and his friend, Jason Baird, dressed up to cheer up children who are stuck indoors.

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  • 13-year-old shot dead; Kenyan police enforcing curfew blamed

    The family of a 13-year-old boy is in mourning after police in Kenya's capital are accused of shooting him dead while enforcing a coronavirus curfew

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  • TC Energy going ahead with Keystone XL pipeline

    TC Energy Corp. is giving the go ahead for construction of its US$8-billion Keystone XL Pipeline project

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  • Italian youth choir shares hopeful musical message from isolation

    The choir's video is resonating around the world.

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  • Explosion in Turkey damages natural gas pipeline from Iran

    An explosion in eastern Turkey has damaged a natural gas pipeline and halted gas flows from Iran

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  • Dubai throws Emirates Air a cash lifeline as travel grounded

    Dubai's government says it will inject equity into Emirates airlines as the Middle East's largest carrier has grounded nearly all of its flights at...

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    Stay up to date on the developing stories making headlines.

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  • Could do better: Japan gently chided by UN climate chief

    The top United Nations climate official has chided Japan over its new plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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  • Athens roads shut after machine part mistaken for WWII shell

    Roads near Greece's parliament building in central Athens have been reopened to vehicles and pedestrians after a bomb scare turned out to be a false...

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  • EU chief: Fighting virus should not erode democratic rights

    The European Union's top official is urging member countries to respect the bloc’s core values amid fears that restrictions imposed by some national...

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  • EU launches new naval mission to police Libya arms embargo

    The European Union is launching a new naval mission to help enforce the U.N. arms embargo on Libya

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  • Crews build intensive care unit in overcrowded hospitals in Milan

    A 200-bed intensive care unit was built to help relieve the pressure on overcrowded hospitals in northern Italy.

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  • Assailant with ax, machete wounds man

    German police say an assailant armed with an ax and a machete has threatened a woman and wounded a man who came to her help in southern Germany

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  • Europe's trade system with Iran finally makes first deal

    European countries trying to keep Iran's nuclear deal with world powers alive said Tuesday that a system they set up to enable trade with Tehran has...

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  • Commander: Kurdish forces end riots by IS prisoners in Syria

    The top commander of Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria says they have put down riots by Islamic State militants held in a prison there

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  • Hundreds of stranded Americans leave Nepal amid lockdown

    Hundreds of stranded Americans have left Nepal on a repatriation flight, days after a lockdown was imposed in the Himalayan nation to help fight the...

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  • Ukraine approves legislation in a bid for IMF aid

    Ukraine's parliament has voted to lift the ban on the sale of farmland in a move that will allow the country to get $8 billion worth of aid from the...

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  • Ukraine approves legislation in a bid for IMF aid

    Ukraine's parliament has voted to lift the ban on the sale of farmland in a move that will allow the country to get $8 billion worth of aid from the...

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  • Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent

    In ex-communist Eastern Europe and elsewhere, rulers are assuming more power while they introduce harsh measures they say are necessary to halt...

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