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  • Belarus eyes closer integration with Russia, fueling protest

    Leaders of Russia and Belarus are discussing how to further deepen ties between the two allies — a meeting that triggered a protest in the Belarusian...

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  • Tensions as yellow vests join French retirement protests

    A few thousand yellow vest protesters are marching through Paris and joining in public anger at the government's retirement reform

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  • Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist

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  • Iraqi officials raise toll to 25 killed in Baghdad bloodshed

    Iraqi officials have raised the death toll to 25 protesters and policeman killed and over 130 wounded, after a bloody night of attacks by unknown...

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  • AP PHOTOS: Ukraine war prisoners struggle to rebuild lives

    In the five years that eastern Ukraine has been embroiled in bloodshed, between 3,000 and 10,000 people have survived unlawful detentions and...

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  • Airstrikes in northwest Syria kill at least 4 people

    A Syrian war monitor and an opposition paramedic group say airstrikes on towns and villages in the last major rebel stronghold in the country's...

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  • Afghanistan bids farewell to slain Japanese physician

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has led a memorial to bid final farewell to a Japanese physician killed earlier this week in a roadside shooting in...

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  • Afghanistan bids farewell to slain Japanese physician

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has led a memorial to bid final farewell to the slain Japanese physician killed earlier this week in a roadside shooting...

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  • New European leader chooses Africa as 1st overseas visit

    The new European Commission president says she chose Africa as her first visit outside Europe as it has some of the world’s fastest-growing economies...

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  • Ukraine's leader hopes for lasting truce, prisoner swap

    Ukraine’s new president says he believes a planned international summit will help achieve a lasting cease-fire in the country’s separatist conflict

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  • Algeria's presidential debate falls flat, as anger simmers

    Algeria's first-ever presidential debate seems to have failed to convince the country's protesters to take part in next week's election

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  • Iran’s foreign minister says Chinese-American Princeton scholar to be freed in exchange for US-held Iranian scientist

    Iran’s foreign minister says Chinese-American Princeton scholar to be freed in exchange for US-held Iranian scientist

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  • Death toll after explosion in Slovakia reaches 7; 1 missing

    Officials say the death toll from a gas explosion in a Slovakian tower block has reached seven

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  • Indian woman who alleged gang rape dies after burn attack

    A 23-year-old Indian woman who alleged she was gang-raped has died from burn injuries sustained in an attack that took place while she was on her way...

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  • Lebanon’s journalists suffer abuse, threats covering unrest

    Anti-government protests that broke out across Lebanon in October over a plunging economy and widespread corruption have had repercussions on...

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  • US opens first round of resurrected peace talks with Taliban

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  • Venice tide barriers pass another test, but skeptics remain

    The underwater barriers meant to protect the Italian lagoon city of Venice from damaging high tides are a decade behind schedule and billions over...

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  • Clash on the Dunes: Saudi Arabia fights to overcome criticism with heavyweight bout

    The kingdom will host Saturday's fight between Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua.

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  • Mexico announces its biggest oil discovery in three decades

    Mexico says it has made the biggest oil discovery in the country since 1987 at the Quesqui field in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco

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  • AP Exclusive: 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China

    AP Exclusive: Government list shows 629 Pakistani girls from across the country sold as brides to China

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  • Evo Morales leaves Mexico on 'temporary' trip to Cuba

    An aide to the self-exiled former President Evo Morales of Bolivia says the former leader is in Cuba for a medical appointment

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  • Dominica governing party easily wins Parliament elections

    Residents of Dominica have cast ballots for a new Parliament following weeks of political unrest, and early returns indicate a landslide victory for...

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  • Male video takes on viral feminist anthem stir ire in Mexico

    The feminist anthem titled “A Rapist in Your Path” has become an international phenomenon, with activists in countries from Latin America to the U

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  • Germany's Merkel begins her first ever visit to Auschwitz

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced "deep shame” during her first-ever visit to the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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  • US offers $5 million for Mexican drug lord “El Chapo Isidro

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  • Johnson under pressure ahead of final UK election TV debate

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have clashed in the last head-to-head debate before a general election in...

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  • 15 killed in Iraqi capital as assailants fire live rounds

    Iraqi officials say gunmen in cars opened fire in Baghdad's Khilani Square, killing at least 15 people

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  • Police chief shot in central Mexico city of Cuernavaca

    Armed attackers have shot to death the acting police chief in the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, a once-tranquil tourist destination just south of...

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  • Russian student given suspended sentence for protest calls

    A Moscow court has convicted a student vlogger of inciting protests

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  • Abandoned baby giraffe befriended by dog in Africa dies

    A South African animal orphanage says a baby giraffe that was befriended by a dog after he was abandoned in the wild has died

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  • Greece: Clashes at rally to mark police shooting anniversary

    Clashes have broken out in Athens and the port city of Patras leaving at least two people injured, following protests to mark the anniversary of the...

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  • More than 50 polar bears descend on Russian village, frightening locals

    Polar bears are increasingly entering human settlements due to the decline of the sea ice, meaning they are forced to go ashore in search of food.

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  • Hungary competition authority fines Facebook $4 million

    Hungary's competition authority says it has fined Facebook around $4 million for allegedly misleading its users

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  • Iraqi officials: 12 killed in Baghdad’s Khilani Square after unknown assailants fire live ammunition from cars

    Iraqi officials: 12 killed in Baghdad’s Khilani Square after unknown assailants fire live ammunition from cars

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  • UK Brexit envoy quits, slamming politicians' 'half-truths'

    Britain’s Brexit envoy in Washington has quit, saying she no longer wants to “peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust

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  • Iraqi officials say 6 protesters killed and 30 wounded in central Baghdad in attack targeting demonstrators

    Iraqi officials say 6 protesters killed and 30 wounded in central Baghdad in attack targeting demonstrators

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  • UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts

    An EU-funded center in Libya that was supposed to be the last stop before evacuating migrants out of the country is spiraling out of control

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  • Germany: Merkel's partners give coalition 'realistic chance'

    One of the new leaders of Germany's junior governing party says it is giving Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition a “realistic chance” of survival

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  • Poland wants to buy site of WWII Nazi death camp in Austria

    Poland's prime minister says his government wants to buy from Austria the site of a former Nazi death camp where tens of thousands of Poles were...

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  • Police: Al-Shabab extremists kill 8 on bus in northern Kenya

    Police in Kenya say suspected al-Shabab extremists have stopped a bus in the north near Somalia and killed eight passengers, all of them non-Muslims

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  • Russian opposition celebrates after anti-Putin blogger given lenient sentence

    Yegor Zhukov had faced 4 years in prison for videos criticizing the Kremlin

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  • Botswana opposition files election challenges alleging fraud

    An opposition coalition in Botswana has begun filing court challenges to the recent election alleging fraud and arguing that its candidate should be...

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  • 6-story building collapses in Nairobi; some feared trapped

    Officials say at least four people are dead and others are trapped after a six-story residential building collapsed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi

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  • Protests at Gaza-Israel fence resume after 3-week pause

    Thousands of Palestinians have demonstrated along the Gaza-Israel frontier as the territory’s Hamas rulers resumed regular protests after a three-week...

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  • Teen pleads guilty to throwing boy from top of Tate Modern

    A British teenager has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for throwing a 6-year-old French boy from the 10th-floor viewing platform at London's Tate...

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  • Unions dig in as French retirement strikes enter 2nd day

    Frustrated travelers are getting bogged down in transportation chaos across France for a second day amid a strike against the government's planned...

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  • Kosovo prosecutor charges ex-Serb paramilitary of war crimes

    Kosovo prosecutors have issued war crimes charges against an ethnic Serb former police officer suspected of torturing ethnic Albanians during the...

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  • Austrian, Moldovan police break up nuclear smuggling ring

    The European police agency Europol says Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear...

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  • Nobel laureates chat with International Space Station crew

    Winning a Nobel Prize is an achievement is a class of its own

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