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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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  • 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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• Feb 20

  • 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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  • Defense lawyers say they will seek French asylum for Assange

    French members of the European defense team of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange say they plan to ask President Emmanuel Macron to grant their client...

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  • Battles intensify near strategic Yemeni port

    Yemeni officials say a flare-up in violence near a strategic port in Yemen killed at least 18 fighters over the past day

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  • Mexican suspect once lived with dead girl's family

    A woman who allegedly took a seven-year-old girl away from school to be killed may have lived with the girl's family for a while in Mexico City to...

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  • Boy shot by Israeli police loses sight in eye

    A nine-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the face by Israeli police in a tense east Jerusalem neighborhood last week will not regain vision in...

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  • Sudanese activists say security forces fire tear gas at them

    Sudanese pro-democracy activists say the country's security forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in the capital Khartoum

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  • Portugal’s parliament votes to allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people

    Portugal’s parliament votes to allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people

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  • Israeli prosecutors announce criminal investigation into Netanyahu challenger's failed company, jolting election.

    Israeli prosecutors announce criminal investigation into Netanyahu challenger's failed company, jolting election.

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  • IMF delegation advises Lebanese officials on economic crisis

    An International Monetary Fund delegation has held meetings in Lebanon to give advice on how to tackle the country's crippling economic and financial...

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  • Man stabbed at London mosque; police say not terror-related

    Police say a man was stabbed during afternoon prayers at one of London's biggest mosques

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  • Democrats debate, Milan Fashion Week, coronavirus warning: World in Photos, Feb. 20

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Iran announces 3 new cases of new virus after 2 deaths

    Iran says three more people have been infected by the new virus that originated in central China following an announcement a day earlier that two...

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  • US citizen to remain in Egypt detention after prosecution appeal accepted

    She had a chance to walk free on Wednesday when a court ordered her release.

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  • Pompeo meets Saudi king in talks focused on Iranian threats

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman and the crown prince in a visit focused primarily on discussing security...

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  • Israel leader vows thousands of new homes in east Jerusalem

    Israel's prime minister says the country is moving ahead with the building of thousands of homes in two key east Jerusalem neighborhoods

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  • Thousands of camels evacuated from Tripoli

    Three-thousand camels were evacuated from the port in Tripoli, Libya, after the area was subjected to artillery fire.

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  • A look at recent deadly racist attacks in Germany

    Authorities suspect that the gunman who killed nine people with migrant backgrounds in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau was motivated by racism

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  • Bank backs off program monitoring workers' bathroom breaks

    Barclays has rolled back a software program that monitored an employee's productivity after privacy campaigners described the pilot as being “creepy

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  • Spanish judge summons Venezuelan TV owner in PDVSA probe

    A Spanish judge has named the owner of Venezuelan television network Globovisión in an investigation of alleged corruption and money laundering by...

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  • Polish mayor tries to make amends for other town's misstep

    A Polish mayor is trying to make amends with a French community that broke formal ties with another Polish town because the latter adopted a...

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  • Egyptian court refuses to release prominent activist

    An Egyptian court has overturned a decision to release a prominent activist who has been detained for nearly five months without trial

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  • South Sudan rival leaders agree to form coalition government

    South Sudan’s rival leaders have made a major breakthrough in announcing they have agreed to form a coalition government

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  • Report of aircraft crash in Thailand appears to be false

    Searchers in Thailand say what was reported by police to have been an aircraft crash on a mountain appears to have been false, and was only a wildfire

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  • Venezuelan police search home of detained uncle of Guaidó

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says military police raided the home of his uncle, a week after the relative was arrested on his return with...

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  • Coronavirus patient numbers double overnight in South Korea

    Fifty-three new cases were confirmed.

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  • Vatican sees intense interest in opening of Pius XII archive

    More than 150 historians and researchers have signed up to access the soon-to-open Vatican archives of Pope Pius XII

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  • Turkey's Defense Ministry says 2 soldiers killed in airstrike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, 5 soldiers wounded

    Turkey's Defense Ministry says 2 soldiers killed in airstrike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, 5 soldiers wounded

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  • Patient plays violin while surgeons remove brain tumor

    A patient at a British hospital played Mahler and Gershwin on the violin while surgeons removed a tumor from her brain, so doctors could preserve her...

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  • UBS picks new CEO with track record in digital banking

    Shares in bank UBS are up more than 3% after the Swiss firm announced the appointment of a new CEO with experience in digital banking

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  • Estonia starts building 100-million-euro data center

    An Estonian tech company has kicked off construction of the Baltic states' largest commercial data center, an estimated 100-million-euro ($108...

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  • A Week in Pictures, Middle East

    This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan &...

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