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  • Paris police use tear gas amid strike over pension reform

    Extremist activists are causing trouble on the sidelines of a mass march through Paris against the government’s plan to reform the retirement system

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  • Strikes in France, impeachment hearing and a glowing shark: World in Photos, Dec. 5

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Russia suspends project with Iran due to uranium enrichment

    A Russian state company suspended a research project with Iran because the country decided to resume enriching uranium

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  • UK judge clears 3 men falsely convicted 50 years ago

    A British judge has exonerated three black men who served time in prison 50 years ago based upon the testimony of a corrupt police officer

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  • Europe pledges additional support for quake-hit Albania

    The European Union’s new leader for crisis management is visiting Albania to assess damages and reconstruction needs after last week’s powerful...

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  • Turkish parliament backs contentious deal with Libya

    Turkey’s parliament has endorsed a controversial deal on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean reached between Turkey and Libya's U.N.-supported...

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  • As 58 migrants drown off Africa, a call to stop smugglers

    As 58 migrants drown off Africa in one of year’s worst disasters, a call to stop smugglers

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  • Close associates of Israeli PM to be indicted in graft case

    Israel’s state prosecutor says he intends to indict a number of close associates of the Israeli prime minister in a graft case involving a $2 billion...

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  • Putin offers US to extend key nuclear pact right now

    Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is prepared to immediately extend a pivotal nuclear arms reduction pact with the U.S.

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  • Young and old march in unity, fear at French pension change

    Anger, solidarity, tear gas and frozen noses _ that sums up the atmosphere inside Thursday’s mass Paris protest by demonstrators young and old against...

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  • Giuliani in Ukraine as Congress moves closer to impeachment

    President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has paid a visit to the Ukrainian capital to hold meetings and film a documentary

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  • A look at France's heated debate over pensions

    A look at the changes the French government wants to make to the pensions system, and why it is generating heated debate.

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  • Farage’s Brexit Party hit by split a week before UK election

    Britain is holding a general election a week from now and fractures are emerging within jittery political parties unsure how a volatile electorate...

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  • Shinto festival carries on centuries-old tradition in Japan

    Lit by lanterns and fireworks, Shinto festival carries on centuries-old tradition in Japan, where religious beliefs have flexibility

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  • Rights group: Venezuela migrant kids left at risk in Brazil

    A new report by Human Rights Watch finds that hundreds of Venezuelan children are fleeing into Brazil alone and at risk of becoming homeless, abused...

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  • Spain hospital saves British woman after 6-hour heart stop

    A 34-year-old British woman has been revived by Spanish doctors after spending more than six hours in cardiac arrest

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  • Minister resigns over Columbia degree he never got

    A junior cabinet minister in Greece’s center-right government has stepped down after it emerged he never received a degree for university studies...

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  • Ex-Slovak prime minister Robert Fico charged with racism

    Slovakia’s police say they have charged former Prime Minister Robert Fico with racism for his comments about the embattled Roma minority

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  • Portugal resists US appeal to bar Huawei from 5G network

    Portugal says it won’t exclude Chinese companies from supplying technology for the country’s next-generation 5G wireless network

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  • Authorities say at least 28 killed in landslides in Burundi

    Authorities say at least 28 killed in landslides in Burundi, with many others missing

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  • Prosecution: ICC judges were wrong to reject Afghan probe

    A prosecution lawyer says international judges overstepped their powers by refusing to authorize an investigation into alleged abuses by government...

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  • UK anti-fraud agency investigating commodities firm Glencore

    Glencore says it’s facing an investigation by the British government’s fraud investigator amid suspicions of bribery involving the Swiss-based...

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  • Nobel body: ‘Highly problematic’ that peace winner silent

    Nobel body: ‘Highly problematic’ that Peace Prize winner won’t be taking public questions

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  • Fears rise as at least 13 stabbed in Baghdad square

    Security and medical officials say at least 13 people have suffered stab wounds in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Iraq’s protest movement,...

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  • Authorities say at least 28 people killed in landslides in Burundi, with many others missing

    Authorities say at least 28 people killed in landslides in Burundi, with many others missing

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  • $832 million worth of drugs seized in massive bust

    The drug bust also seized millions dollars worth of heroin.

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  • Poland says it foiled $517 million cocaine smuggling plan

    Poland’s prime minister says the nation’s special services have foiled a $517 million (467 million euros) plan to smuggle Columbian cocaine to Europe

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  • Kosovo court jails ex-Serb minister for ethnic hatred

    A Kosovo court has sentenced a former ethnic Serb minister to two years in prison for inciting ethnic hatred

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  • The Latest: French protesters set fires amid strikes

    Small groups of protesters in France are hurling flares, smashing store windows and setting fires in eastern Paris amid mass strikes over the...

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  • 2 Pakistani soldiers, 2 militants killed in shootout in NW

    Pakistan’s military says its troops have raided a militant hideout in a former tribal region bordering Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that killed...

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  • Indonesia to fire airline CEO over smuggling accusation

    Indonesia's state-owned enterprise minister says he will fire and seek the prosecution of the head of the national airline after he was implicated in...

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  • Anti-headscarf law activist sues Iran in US over harassment

    Iranian-American activist famous for campaign against mandatory headscarf for women sues Iran in US federal court

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  • Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel company suspends project with Iran because of its move to resume uranium enrichment

    Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel company suspends project with Iran because of its move to resume uranium enrichment

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• Dec 5

  • Bosnian lawmakers break deadlock and appoint prime minister

    Bosnian lawmakers have appointed the new prime minister, paving the way for the formation of the government in the troubled Balkan country more than a...

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  • Afghans hold candlelight vigil for slain Japanese doctor

    Afghans across the country are shocked at the killing of a Japanese physician who was gunned down with five Afghans in a shooting in the country’s...

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  • Mass strikes take place across France against pension reforms

    An estimated 245 demonstrations are taking place nationwide.

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  • Maldives wants to restructure debt to China

    The Maldives foreign minister says his country needs to restructure its massive debt to China, which he says has put the Indian ocean archipelago in a...

    Dec 5

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  • Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, take 19 of crew hostage

    Pirates attack Greek-owned oil tanker off Nigeria, take 19 hostage in world’s riskiest waters

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  • Airline opens restaurant serving only in-flight meals

    The company plans to have 100 airline food restaurants globally in a few years.

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  • Journalists rally to denounce threats to Pakistani newspaper

    Pakistani journalists and rights activists have rallied in support of a leading newspaper in Islamabad and elsewhere, days after Islamists gathered at...

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  • Belarus’ leader vows the country won’t become part of Russia

    The president of Belarus says the country will never become part of another state, even a “brotherly” one like Russia

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  • Fire in refugee camp on Greek island kills a woman

    Greek authorities say one person has died after a fire broke out in a housing unit in a refugee camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos

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  • Erdogan warns NATO allies to back its fight against terror

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that Turkey dropped its objection to a NATO plan to bolster the defense of Poland and Baltic...

    Dec 5

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  • Convicted Estonian official in NATO spy scandal released

    An Estonian court has decided to release on parole an Estonian man who was found guilty of treason for passing on NATO secrets to Russia from 1995...

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  • At least 3 injured in Greece hotel fire in capital

    A fire has broken out at a luxury hotel in the Greek capital, with firefighters using ladders to help evacuate the building

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  • Helicopter rescues man stranded on river islet for 2 days

    The man was out fishing when floodwater trapped him on an islet in Kenya.

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  • Smoke blankets Sydney as wildfires move across Australia

    Around 25 fires burned across New South Wales, killing at least six and destroying dozens of homes.

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  • German farmers won’t appeal climate lawsuit defeat

    Three German farming families say they won’t appeal a court’s decision to dismiss their climate change lawsuit against Chancellor Angela Merkel's...

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  • Japanese court reduces Peruvian’s death sentence to life

    A Japanese appeals court has reduced the death sentence of a Peruvian man convicted of killing six people to life in prison

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