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  • Islamic Jihad says cease-fire reached to end Gaza fighting

    The Islamic Jihad militant group says a cease-fire has been reached to end two days of heavy fighting with Israel

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    Japan economy grows at 0.2% pace in July-September, supported by consumer purchases ahead of a tax hike

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  • Key factors in Sri Lanka’s presidential election

    A glance at key factors in Sri Lanka’s presidential election

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  • Islamic Jihad spokesman says cease-fire with Israel has been reached to end two days of Gaza fighting

    Islamic Jihad spokesman says cease-fire with Israel has been reached to end two days of Gaza fighting

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  • Clashes rock Bolivia as new interim leader challenged

    The woman who claimed Bolivia’s presidency faces the challenge of winning recognition, stabilizing the nation and organizing national elections within...

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  • Hong Kong endures more transit disruptions, more violence

    Honk Kong residents again endure traffic snarls and transportation disruptions as protesters closed some major arteries and rail networks as police,...

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  • Why Ukraine matters, and not only to Trump and his rivals

    Ukraine is playing a starring role in the historic U.S. impeachment hearings _ and Ukrainians themselves wish the whole thing would just go away

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  • South Korean ex-justice minister summoned in financial probe

    South Korean prosecutors have summoned the country’s former justice minister as they expand an investigation into corruption allegations surrounding...

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  • Mexican environment officials protest budget cuts

    In a rare protest against his own administration, Mexico’s environment secretary is decrying a nearly 50% budget cut to his agency and issued a public...

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  • As rockets rain down, Israel intensifies its strikes in Gaza

    Israeli aircraft have struck Islamic Jihad targets throughout the Gaza Strip while the militant group has rained scores of rockets into Israel for a...

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  • Mexico commission blames authorities in 2017 school collapse

    Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission says authorities apparently acted with corruption or negligence in allowing the operation of an elementary...

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  • Sri Lankan journalists fear situation may worsen after vote

    Sri Lanka’s exiled journalists fear the situation for the country’s media workers may worsen after this weekend’s presidential election

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  • Toll rises in Australian wildfires with more danger ahead

    The death toll for wildfires raging across Australia’s most populous state has risen to four as authorities warn of worsening conditions to come

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  • Japan emperor’s harvest rite is his 1st communion with gods

    Japanese Emperor Naruhito is set to perform his first annual harvest ritual since ascending to the Chrysanthemum Throne

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  • The Latest: Palestinians say new Israeli airstrike kills 5

    Palestinians say a new Israeli airstrike has killed five people from a single family in central Gaza Strip

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  • Putin encourages BRICS to collaborate on anti-virus programs

    Russian President Vladimir Putin tells fellow leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economy nations that he supports more cooperation in information...

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  • Economy in mind, Bolsonaro changes tack and cozies up to Xi

    Brazil gets closer to China as President Bolsonaro drops rhetoric from last year’s campaign trail

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  • Australia’s highest court will hear Cardinal Pell’s appeal

    Australia’s highest court will hear an appeal from the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children

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  • Egypt says looting attempt causes oil pipeline fire; 7 dead

    Egyptian officials say an oil pipeline caught fire when thieves tried to tap into it to siphon off gasoline in the Nile Delta province of Beheira, and...

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  • Chile locked in dispute over who will draft new constitution

    Dispute over who drafts new constitution in Chile continues after violent night

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  • Rare tornado leaves 2 dead, 20 injured in South Africa

    Two people were killed and 20 injured by a tornado in South Africa's Midlands.

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  • Ancient cup given to 1st marathon victor returned to Greece

    An ancient Greek cup awarded as a prize to the marathon winner in the first modern Olympics of 1896 has been returned to Greece from a German...

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  • AP Explains: Lebanon’s protests could head into dark turn

    AP Explains: Popular protests engulfing Lebanon have been startlingly peaceful, but the first fatality in the unrest points to the dangerous, dark...

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  • The Latest: Tusk: UK to be ‘second-rate player’ post Brexit

    European Union Council President Donald Tusk says that the United Kingdom will be “a second-rate player” once it leaves the bloc, squeezed in between...

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  • Officials: Missile attack kills 5 soldiers in central Yemen

    Yemen’s internationally recognized government said a missile attack killed at least six soldiers on Wednesday, a second attack on a military facility...

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  • Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded

    The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years has prompted calls to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials...

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  • American teacher found dead in Dominican Republic: Police

    Patricia Ann Anton, 63, was found with her hands and feet tied, police said.

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  • Impeachment hearings begin, Venice floods, bushfires burn: World in Photos, Nov. 13

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Iraqi protesters defiant in face of deadly crackdown

    Iraqi protesters are saying they will continue to demonstrate in defiance of an intensifying crackdown by security forces

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  • Tunisia elects new parliament speaker from Islamist party

    The longtime leader of Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahdha has been elected speaker of the North African country’s new parliament

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  • Moldova’s president nominates ex-adviser for prime minister

    Moldova’s president says he is nominating his former adviser as the country’s next prime minister

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  • Former Conservative minister urges UK to reject the party

    A former Conservative Party Cabinet minister says giving the party a majority in next month's election would be “disastrous” because it would allow...

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  • Turkey says it captured 'important' IS figure in Syria

    Turkish minister says ‘important’ figure from Islamic State group in Syria captured by Turkey

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  • Switzerland OKs linkup with EU’s emissions trading system

    Switzerland has approved a change to its environmental legislation allowing companies to take part in the European Union’s emissions trading system

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  • Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Houthi rebels in indirect peace talks

    Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels holding indirect, behind-the-scenes talks to end 5-year war

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  • 2 trains collide in southern India

    At least 12 people were injured after a signal glitch near the Kacheguda railway station.

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  • Vatican: Pope, Anglican head aim for joint South Sudan trip

    The Vatican says Pope Francis and Anglican leader Justin Welby intend to visit South Sudan together if a national unity transition government can be...

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  • Tesla to build factory in Germany after subsidies announced

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car pioneer plans to build a new factory near Berlin

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  • Google, Israel’s National Library team up to digitize books

    The National Library of Israel says it will digitize 120,000 books for the first time as part of a historic collaboration with Google

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  • The Latest: Some exchange students urged to leave Hong Kong

    Several Nordic students at Hong Kong Baptist University are being moved because anti-government demonstrators are on the school grounds

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  • US ‘gravely disappointed’ by South Sudan unity gov’t delay

    US ‘gravely disappointed’ by South Sudan coalition government delay, will reevaluate relationship

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  • US banker refusing to return overseas to face manslaughter charge labeled 'fugitive'

    U.S. citizen Scott Hapgood is charged in the death of an Anguillan hotel worker.

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  • Turkey re-arrests journalist a week after his release

    Turkish authorities have re-arrested a journalist a week after he was released from prison, where he had been serving a 10-year sentence on terror...

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  • Hong Kong protesters wielding bows and arrows hunker down at universities

    Protesters are armed with bows and arrows, slingshots, javelins, petrol bombs.

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  • UN: $1.35 billion needed to respond to Venezuela exodus

    The U.N. refugee agency says nations in Latin America and the Caribbean will need $1.35 billion to respond to the massive Venezuela exodus

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  • Clashes on Ethiopian campuses kill 3 university students

    Clashes on Ethiopian campuses kill 3 students; security forces are deployed

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  • Islamic State returnees cloud anniversary of Paris attacks

    France commemorated the fourth anniversary of the Islamic State attacks that struck the heart of Paris with a solemn reading of the names of 131 dead

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