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  • The Latest: Colombo businesses advise staff to stay indoors

    Businesses in Colombo are advising staff to stay indoors until 2 p.m. because of a possible security threat and an ongoing search operation in the...

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  • Sudanese protesters delay naming of civilian government

    The organizers of the protests that drove Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir from power are delaying their announcement of a transitional civilian...

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  • China and Russia to hold joint navy drills next week

    China says it will hold joint naval drills with Russia next week

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  • Climate activists block entrance to London Stock Exchange

    Environmental activists are blocking the main entrance to the London Stock Exchange after gluing themselves to the doorway while wearing LED displays...

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  • Afghan official says Taliban ambush police convoy, kill 9

    Afghan official says Taliban ambush security convoy, killing 9 policemen in western Farah province

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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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  • Hand-carved mahjong tiles are a dying craft in Hong Kong

    One of Hong Kong's remaining carvers of mahjong tiles is trying to save his dying craft

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  • Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin discus nuclear stalemate in historic summit

    The pair of leaders opened a summit on Thursday.

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  • Sri Lanka bans drones, looks for bombs 4 days after attack

    Hobby drones have been used by militants in the past to carry explosives.

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  • French police experts start Notre Dame checks after fire

    French police scientists and other expert investigators are starting to examine Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time since last week's devastating...

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  • Prince William meets New Zealand mosque attack responders

    Britain's Prince William met with first responders to mosque attacks in Christchurch after laying wreath at Anzac Day service alongside Prime Minister...

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  • Polish leader: LGBT rights an import that threatens nation

    The chairman of Poland's conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has called the LGBT rights movement a foreign import that threatens the Polish...

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  • Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive to step down

    Royal Bank of Scotland says Chief Executive Ross McEwan is stepping down after 5 1/2 years overseeing the restructuring of a bank that was bailed out...

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  • UK regulators block Sainsbury's-Asda supermarket merger

    British competition regulators have blocked J. Sainsbury Plc's 7.3 billion-pound ($9.4 billion) purchase of Walmart's Asda unit, which would have...

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  • UK competition and markets authority blocks Sainsbury-Asda merger on grounds it will result in higher consumer prices

    UK competition and markets authority blocks Sainsbury-Asda merger on grounds it will result in higher consumer prices

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

    11 workers were killed and two seriously injured when an elevator fell due to a snapped cable at a construction site in northern China

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  • Putin says Russia supports Kim Jong Un's efforts to normalize North Korea's relations with the United States

    Putin says Russia supports Kim Jong Un's efforts to normalize North Korea's relations with the United States

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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