Latest International Headlines

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  • French protest retirement changes, travel disruptions abound

    French police have fired tear gas on some rowdy protesters amid marches in Paris against the government's retirement reforms

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

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  • Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians

    Flaming barricades mostly gone from Haiti’s streets; protests have largely ended

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  • Protests erupt as Russia seeks closer ties with Belarus

    Russia and Belarus discussed how to further deepen ties between the two allies.

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  • Frenchman found guilty in deadly kidnap attempts suicide

    A man apparently tried to poison himself in a French courtroom.

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  • Israel says 3 rockets fired into the country from Gaza

    The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel

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  • Evo Morales' party choosing candidates for Bolivia elections

    New elections were called after the resignation, exile of the former president.

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  • Reddit bans accounts, suspects possible UK vote interference

    The prospect of Russian interference in Britain's election has become an issue again after the social media platform Reddit concluded that leaked...

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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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  • Evo Morales' party choosing candidates for Bolivia elections

    With its top leader absent, the party of Evo Morales is gathering in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba to start choosing its candidates for new...

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  • Police: Explosion in eastern Pakistan kills 1, wounds 4

    Pakistani police say an explosion near a religious congregation in the eastern city of Lahore has killed one and wounded four others

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  • US opens first round of resurrected peace talks with Taliban

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  • Airstrikes in northwest Syria kill at least 18 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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  • Report: Some 14,000 to run for 290 seats in Iran parliament

    Iran’s IRNA news agency reports that nearly 14,000 people have registered to run

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  • Lebanese women march in Beirut against sexual harassment

    The march started outside the American University of Beirut.

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  • Lebanese women march in Beirut against sexual harassment

    Scores of women have marched through the streets of Beirut against sexual harassment and a lack of rights

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  • American student jailed in Iran for 3 years freed in prisoner exchange

    Xiyue Wang had been held in Iran's notorious Evin prison since August 2016.

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  • Report: Iranian soldier shot 3 policemen to death

    Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency is reporting that a soldier has shot three policemen to death in the country's south

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  • Oman's sultan, 79, travels to Belgium for medical checks

    Oman's 79-year-old ruler will travel to Belgium for a medical checkup

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • French soldier salutes, Protests in Chile, and a koala recovers: This Week in Photos

    A look at this week's top photos from around the globe.

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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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