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  • Grief, anger and calls for action after shooting in Germany

    Hundreds of grieving people are flocking to Friday prayers in the mosques of the German town of Hanau, two days after a racially motivated shooting

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  • India’s controversial citizenship law explained

    A new citizenship law in India threatens the country's sizable Muslim population, according to critics.

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  • IS supporter pleads guilty to St. Paul's Cathedral bomb plot

    A British woman who supported the Islamic State group has pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb St. Paul's Cathedral and a hotel in London

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  • US: Taliban's 'reduction of violence' deal to start tonight

    A senior U.S. State Department official says the countdown to the signing of a peace agreement between the Taliban and the United States to end the 18...

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  • Erdogan phones 2 European leaders, wants end to Idlib push

    Turkey's President has spoken with two European leaders by phone and called for an end to a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold...

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  • Thai court orders popular opposition party dissolved

    Thailand's Constitutional Court has ordered the popular opposition Future Forward Party dissolved, declaring that it violated election law by...

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  • Iran reports 2 more deaths, 13 new cases of new coronavirus

    Iran has reported two more deaths from the new virus that emerged in China and says the fatalities were from among 13 new confirmed cases of the virus...

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  • Outpouring of worldwide support for bullied Australian boy

    A video of a 9-year-old Australian boy telling his mother that he wants to die after being bullied at school for his dwarfism has gone viral on social...

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  • Israel says cruise passenger flown home from Japan has virus

    The Israeli Health Ministry says one of the 11 Israelis who were flown home after being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan has tested positive for...

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  • Albania police crack down on illegal betting shops

    Albanian police say they have cracked down on people operating betting shops, more than a year after they were banned

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  • Iran votes in parliament elections that favor conservatives

    Iranians are voting for a new parliament, with turnout seen as a key measure of support for Iran's leadership at the time of a sanctions-linked...

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  • German court says Tesla can fell trees at site of new plant

    A German court has ruled that clearing of trees from the site of Tesla Inc.'s first electric car factory in Europe can go ahead, days after it issued...

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  • US official: 7-day 'reduction of violence' promised by Taliban starts tonight; US-Taliban deal to be signed Feb. 29

    US official: 7-day 'reduction of violence' promised by Taliban starts tonight; US-Taliban deal to be signed Feb. 29

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  • Lesotho's PM fails to show in court to face murder charge

    Lesotho’s prime minister has failed to show up in court to be charged with murder in the killing of his estranged wife

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  • Eurozone economy picks up despite virus disruption

    A survey shows that business activity in the 19-country eurozone has picked up in February from a deep slump, particularly in Germany's big industrial...

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  • Iran reports 2 more deaths from the new virus that emerged in China, says they were from among 13 new confirmed cases

    Iran reports 2 more deaths from the new virus that emerged in China, says they were from among 13 new confirmed cases

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  • Controversial church at center of S Korean outbreak

    A church whose leader claims he is an angel of Jesus has become the biggest cluster of viral infections in South Korea

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  • Outbreak, economic ills dim luster of Japan's Olympic year

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should be basking in the limelight this year in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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  • Hundreds of Chinese prisoners infected with novel coronavirus, official says

    Over 500 cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in five prisons across China.

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  • Thousands light up joints during Hindu festival in Nepal

    Hindu holy men were joined by devotees and the public at a revered temple in Kathmandu where they lit up marijuana cigarettes during an annual...

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  • Algeria on cusp of change as protest movement marks one year

    Algeria's peaceful “smile revolution” brought down the long-time president of Africa's largest country along with his powerful entourage

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  • Thai court finds popular opposition political party broke election law by taking loan, orders it dissolved

    Thai court finds popular opposition political party broke election law by taking loan, orders it dissolved

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  • 2 Germans killed in avalanche on Norway's Arctic Svalbard

    Two German nationals have died in an avalanche near a glacier on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway's mainland

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  • Passenger train partly derails in Australia, killing 2

    Several cars on a passenger train derailed in southeastern Australia, killing two operators and injuring 12 other people

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  • A Week in Pictures, Asia

    A Week in Pictures, Asia

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  • IATA: Virus may slash $29 billion from airlines' revenue

    The International Air Transport Association says the outbreak of the new virus is threatening to erase $29 billion of this year's revenue for global...

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  • A Week in Pictures - Latin America & Caribbean

    A Week in Pictures — Latin America & Caribbean

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• Feb 20

  • Iran's state TV says polls have opened for a new parliament as some 7,000 candidates run for the 290-seat house

    Iran's state TV says polls have opened for a new parliament as some 7,000 candidates run for the 290-seat house

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  • 11 are dead after terror attack in Germany

    ABC News’ James Longman joins us live from Hunow, Germany, to tell us more about the troubling trend of far right attacks in the area.

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  • Bolivia bars ex-President Morales from running for Senate

    Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal has rejected the candidacy of former President Evo Morales for a Senate seat in May's elections because he does...

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  • China reports further fall in new cases of virus to 889, number of deaths rises by 118

    China reports further fall in new cases of virus to 889, number of deaths rises by 118

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  • EU urges halt to Syrian offensive in Idlib, vows new aid

    The European Union is urging an immediate halt to a crushing offensive by Syrian forces

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  • 1 trillion euros: EU leaders get into big fight over budget

    European Union leaders are arguing into the night about the bloc's budget

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  • Irish lawmakers meet as wrangling to form government goes on

    Ireland’s parliament has convened for the first time since an election two weeks ago that left three parties on roughly level pegging, with no easy...

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  • Turkish soldiers killed in Syria amid threats of escalation

    Turkey's Defense Ministry says two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike in Syria's Idlib province and five others were wounded

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  • German gunman calling for genocide kills 9 people

    Authorities say a 43-year-old German who posted a rant calling for the “complete extermination” of various races and cultures shot and killed nine...

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  • Boat carrying 91 migrants goes missing in Mediterranean

    The U.N. migration agency and a crisis hotline say that a rubber dinghy packed with 91 migrants that set out from Libyan shores in hopes of reaching...

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  • Dominicans protest as officials detain 2 in e-vote probe

    Hundreds have joined in a demonstration in the Dominican Republic demanding the resignation of the elections commission, in a fourth consecutive day...

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  • Lima Group urges world to help bring stability to Venezuela

    Canada and its Western Hemisphere allies are calling on the rest of the democratic world to help bring stability to Venezuela as it struggles with an...

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  • Germany's immigrant community in Hanau reeling after attack

    In the German town of Hanau, a longtime immigrant destination with decades of coexistence between people of different origins, residents fear their...

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  • Libya's warring parties resume talks in Geneva

    A U.N. spokesman says that Libya's warring parties have returned to negotiations aimed at salvaging a fragile cease-fire in the North African country...

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  • Abuse survivors seek more progress 1 year after papal summit

    Survivors of church sex abuse have descended on Rome this week, marking the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ summit of church leaders on preventing...

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  • Right-wing extremism suspected in Germany mass shooting

    Shots were fired at two different hookah bars in Hanau, authorities said.

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  • Guyana celebrates 1st oil shipment after major discovery

    Guyana’s government on Thursday prepared to sell its first barrels of oil after the discovery of large quantities of oil and gas near the South...

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  • Uber resumes operating to Colombia after three-week hiatus

    Uber has restarted operations in Colombia after shutting down its app for almost three weeks

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  • Israel calls on Belgium to scrap parade over anti-Semitism

    Israel has called on Belgium to scrap a Carnival parade this weekend after last year's featured a float with anti-Semitic caricatures

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  • Israel confirms ultra-Orthodox draft figures were inflated

    The Israeli military says it found “serious, systemic failures” in its own reporting that inflated figures on the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews

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  • Lawyer claims Italy can't charge captain in Libya arms case

    A lawyer for a sea captain jailed in Italy for allegedly transporting embargoed armaments to Libya is contending that there are no legal grounds for...

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  • Israel to probe failed company of Netanyahu's challenger

    Israeli prosecutors have announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the failed start-up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's challenger,...

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  • 24 decomposed bodies found at house in Mexico

    Prosecutors in western Mexico say the arrest of a criminal gang led to the discovery of a house that had been used to dispose of 24 bodies

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