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Jun 22, 2018
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was regaining her strength with macaroni and cheese on Friday and planned to spend at least one more night in an Auckland public hospital with her newborn girl.
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Jun 22, 2018
East Timor's president is refusing to swear in 11 members of Cabinet because of corruption investigations, marring the formation of a new government following a protracted political stalemate in the young nation.
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Jun 22, 2018
The family of a rights activist known for her criticism of Pakistan's military says their home in Islamabad was broken into and ransacked, and that two laptops and travel documents were taken.
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Jun 22, 2018
Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and other envoys are in the region this week to rally support for a plan, but Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to meet them.
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Jun 22, 2018
On Sunday, women will finally be allowed to drive in the kingdom, but it's unclear how much progress is really being made.
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Jun 22, 2018
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is regaining her strength with macaroni and cheese and plans to spend at least one more night in an Auckland public hospital with her newborn girl.
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Jun 22, 2018
North and South Korean officials met Friday for talks on resuming reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War as the rivals boost reconciliation amid a diplomatic push to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis.
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Jun 22, 2018
A Melbourne jury could not decide on Friday whether a man was mentally fit to stand trial on charges that he had murdered six people by driving a car through a lunch-time crowd in a pedestrian-only street in Australia's second largest city.
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Jun 22, 2018
Radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death by an Indonesian court Friday for ordering Islamic State group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta.
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Jun 22, 2018
Indonesian court sentences radical cleric who instigated 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks, other attacks to death.
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Jun 22, 2018
Twenty-six days after being apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border with his son, a Brazilian man in detention says he has no idea when he may see his 9-year-old, who he fears is distraught and having difficulty communicating because he only speaks Portuguese.
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Jun 22, 2018
North and South Korean officials met Friday to map out details for what would be a highly emotional reunion of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War. A look at key issues:
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Jun 22, 2018
The president's tweets may be counterproductive as Germany continues to fall short.
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Jun 22, 2018
Opium poppy growers in southern Mexico who helped fuel the U.S. heroin epidemic say prices for their product have been driven so low — apparently by the use of synthetic opioids like fentanyl — that they are turning in desperation back to another crop they know well: marijuana.
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Jun 21, 2018
Vietnamese police have arrested four more former senior oil executives for allegedly abusing their power to appropriate property as the communist authorities step up their toughest crackdown on corruption in years.
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Jun 21, 2018
North Korea needs China's help. And China needs a stable North Korea.
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Jun 21, 2018
Ana Gloria Henríquez says her granddaughter was a happy girl who loved Disney, her pet dog and the beach. Now she's at a shelter after being separated from her mother following a border crossing.
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Jun 21, 2018
North and South Korean officials are meeting for the first time in three years to arrange reunions between families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War.
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Jun 21, 2018
Attorneys launch a frantic effort but find few of the children their parents are seeking
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Jun 21, 2018
An official at the U.S. Embassy in London says he thinks President Donald Trump will meet Queen Elizabeth II during his visit to Britain next month.
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Jun 21, 2018
Ana Gloria Henríquez says her granddaughter was a happy girl who loved Disney, her pet dog and the beach. Now she's at a shelter after being separated from her mother following a border crossing.
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Jun 21, 2018
The U.N. envoy for Yemen said Thursday he fears "severe" humanitarian and political fallout if fighting intensifies in the crucial port city of Hodeida, but he's confident a pact can be forged to prevent increased violence.
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Jun 21, 2018
Justice Department insists ‘zero tolerance' policy remains in effect, but Customs and Border Protection officials say they will no longer refer parents for prosecution.
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Jun 21, 2018
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says the bodies of three Ecuadorean press workers kidnapped in a conflictive border region may have been found.
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Jun 21, 2018
A new website, PreventEpidemics.org, scores countries on their ability to prevent, detect and stop deadly infectious diseases.
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Jun 21, 2018
Eurozone nations agreed on the final elements of a plan to get Greece out of its eight-year bailout program and make its massive debt more manageable.
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Jun 21, 2018
Long before North Korea gives up its nukes, China is looking to increase trade and prosperity.
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Jun 21, 2018
This summer, Rome is both more subdued and more divided.
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Jun 21, 2018
Iraq's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a disputed law ordering a hand recount of the ballots from last month's national elections after widespread allegations of fraud embarrassed political leaders and marred the initial result.
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Jun 21, 2018
The State Department said a worker at the mission in Havana has experienced symptoms similar to those experienced by 24 others.
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Jun 21, 2018
Legislators in Puerto Rico are challenging a federal control board overseeing the island's finances over a law that protects workers from unjust firings.
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Jun 21, 2018
Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell has an "activist" message for the rest of Europe.
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Jun 21, 2018
Two 14-year-olds have been killed by stray bullets in Rio de Janeiro as violence and police efforts to contain it increase in the Brazilian city.
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Jun 21, 2018
Lionel Messi's frustrating international career may be coming to an early and anti-climactic finish after Argentina's worst loss in World Cup group play in 60 years.
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Jun 21, 2018
Mexico's central bank has decided to raise its key interbank interest rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5 percent.
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Jun 21, 2018
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar sat down in Ethiopia for "Hail Mary" talks, but misery remains widespread in their country.
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Jun 21, 2018
A Moldovan court rejected an appeal Thursday of its ruling to invalidate the results of a local election in the former Soviet republic's capital city.
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Jun 21, 2018
India imposed the new levies on almonds, apples and other goods, a $241 million measure that matches the amount of steel and aluminum import duty expected to be collected from India by the United States.
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Jun 21, 2018
Increased openness, not protectionism, is the best way to ensure Britain's prosperity in a rapidly changing world, the U.K. government's two most powerful money men said Thursday.
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Jun 21, 2018
Nightfall in El Salvador's capital was fast approaching and Ernesto Pena was waiting for a bus that never arrived. His work day delivering rice and cooking oil to street vendors in the bustling district of Santa Tecla had ended and like most people he was anxious to get home before the gangs that control the poor neighborhood where he lives enforce an informal curfew.
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Jun 21, 2018
A mental health crisis is gripping the Gaza Strip, experts say, born of repeated wars and the stress of meeting daily needs. Experts say they have seen a rise in symptoms of psychological distress, such as anxiety, abuse and suicide.
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Jun 21, 2018
Stanislaw Skupian will be jailed for 13 weeks for fraud, but many think the sentence is too harsh.
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Jun 21, 2018
Romania's most powerful politician was convicted Thursday of official misconduct and sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison, a verdict cautiously cheered by anti-government protesters who have spent months decrying high-level corruption in the European country.
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Jun 21, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not implicated in this case, but the charges against Sara Netanyahu could have far-reaching consequences for him.
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Jun 21, 2018
She became only the second elected world leader to give birth while in office.
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Jun 21, 2018
India imposed the new levies on almonds, apples and other goods in response to U.S. tariffs.
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Jun 21, 2018
A lion on the loose forced the evacuation of one Belgium's most famous zoos Thursday, and the animal had to be killed after several failed attempts to sedate it.
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Jun 21, 2018
U.S. stocks are lower Thursday as investors again worry about the potential effects of the U.S.-China trade dispute. German automaker Daimler lowered its annual profit forecast, partly because of higher import taxes on U.S. vehicles in China. Industrial companies are taking more losses. Energy companies are falling along with oil prices and online retailers are skidding after the Supreme Court ruled that states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
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Jun 21, 2018
Despite 16 years of war, the Taliban has developed "a sophisticated system of parallel governance" in Afghanistan.
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Jun 21, 2018
The Latest on the pope's visit to Geneva (all times local):
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Jun 21, 2018
By now, Brexit was supposed to be pretty far along, with "quick" negotiations starting to yield beautiful trade deals and the glimmer of independence. But Prime Minister Theresa May can't even get agreement from her own Cabinet on what a deal should look like.
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Jun 21, 2018
Italy's hard-line interior minister on Thursday refused port to a Dutch-flagged rescue boat with 224 migrants on board, a week after turning away another foreign ship, the Aquarius, carrying 630 migrants.
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Jun 21, 2018
Two mayoral candidates in two different Mexican towns have been killed in less than 24 hours, marking a total of at least 18 candidates killed so far in campaigns leading up to the July 1 elections.
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Jun 21, 2018
The vote puts Canada on road to becoming the first advanced industrialized nation to legalize the drug nationwide.
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Jun 21, 2018
The bonds between Europe and North America are under strain and there's no guarantee the trans-Atlantic partnership will survive, the head of NATO warned Thursday.
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Jun 21, 2018
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a strong lead in polls before the July 1 election.
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Jun 21, 2018
The Latest on the influx of migrants in Europe (all times local):
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Jun 21, 2018
The Latest on the influx of migrants in Europe (all times local):
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Jun 21, 2018
South Sudan's armed opposition on Thursday rejected any "imposition" of a peace deal and asked for more time after the first face-to-face meeting between President Salva Kiir and rival Riek Machar in almost two years.
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Jun 21, 2018
King's statement comes as urgency grows among U.S. and Afghan officials to find a negotiated end to the war.
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Jun 21, 2018
Libya's coast guard has rescued three groups of more than 520 African migrants, including at least 10 women and 49 children, and recovered four bodies in the Mediterranean Sea east of the capital, Tripoli, over two days, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Jun 21, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday promised a $100 million loan to troubled Jordan, where mass protests over austerity measures forced the prime minister to resign earlier this month.
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Jun 21, 2018
Nigeria's military says it is offering a reward for information on a suspected bomb-making factory in the northern city that is the birthplace of the Boko Haram extremist group.
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Jun 21, 2018
The shift in approach could affect the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" strategy.
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Jun 21, 2018
The deputy foreign minister said conditions for children in American facilities are unacceptable.
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Jun 21, 2018
For years, Breivik has claimed that Norway's prison system is violating his human rights.
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Jun 21, 2018
The women hope that this helps propel permanent changes in the rules around watching sporting matches in Iran.
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Jun 21, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser is heading to Moscow to pave the way for a possible U.S.-Russian summit, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Jun 21, 2018
President Donald Trump's Mideast team arrived in Cairo on Thursday, the White House said, the latest stop in a regional tour to discuss a blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
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Jun 21, 2018
The transfer would be part of President Trump's deal on North Korea's nuclear program.
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Jun 21, 2018
U.S. stocks are lower Thursday as investors again worry about the potential effects of the U.S.-China trade dispute. German automaker Daimler lowered its annual profit forecast, partly because of higher import taxes on U.S. vehicles in China. Industrial companies are taking more losses. Energy companies are falling along with oil prices and online retailers are skidding after the Supreme Court ruled that states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
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Jun 21, 2018
A German lawmaker said Thursday the Turkish government is denying him entry to the country as an international observer in the country's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Jun 21, 2018
Ukraine's human rights envoy said Thursday that jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has heart and kidney problems after a hunger strike lasting more than a month.
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Jun 21, 2018
Pope Francis journeyed Thursday to the well-heeled city of Geneva to encourage all Christians, despite their differences, to unite in efforts to foster justice and fight poverty while the rich grow "ever more wealthy."
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Jun 21, 2018
King's statement comes as urgency grows among U.S. and Afghan officials to find a negotiated end to the war.
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Jun 21, 2018
The Latest on the pope's visit to Geneva (all times local):
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Jun 21, 2018
Gambia's police say the national police inspector general has resigned after two civilians were shot dead this week during a demonstration against sand mining.
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Jun 21, 2018
The top official on weapons of mass destruction is leaving her job.
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Jun 21, 2018
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the United States on Thursday to rethink its decision to pull out of the world's top human rights body, calling it a "key tool" in efforts to combat abuse.
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Jun 21, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again asserted that Turkish jets have dealt a heavy blow on the outlawed Kurdish rebels' leadership in Iraq, saying some 35 high-level militants were killed.
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Jun 21, 2018
President Trump will meet the queen during his visit to Britain next month, and many Brits are not amused.
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Jun 21, 2018
Assistant Tuen Mun District Commander Yan Fong-wai said a suicide note suggested that she was "struggling with some disease that makes her feel that to live is worse than to die."
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Jun 21, 2018
Since he took office in 2003, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given a name to each stage in his consolidation of power in Turkey. First he called himself the apprentice; then the journeyman; and latterly the master. Now, he says a new five-year term would elevate him to the role of "grandmaster" and help him make Turkey one of the world's top powers by the time the republic marks its centenary in 2023.
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Jun 21, 2018
The criticism the president faced as he signed an executive order that would keep families together resembled the global reaction to the administration's travel ban.
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Jun 21, 2018
Libya's coast guard has rescued two groups of more than 380 African migrants, including seven women and 48 children, in the Mediterranean Sea east of the capital, Tripoli, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Jun 21, 2018
"To do that is to accept the Chinese narrative of a 5,000-year history," said Tansen Sen, a history professor at New York University Shanghai.
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Jun 21, 2018
An activist who urged Greeks not to pay their taxes, claiming he had access to enough money to pay off the country's enormous debt, has been remanded in custody pending trial on criminal fraud charges.
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Jun 21, 2018
Unwilling to share responsibility for tens of thousands of people arriving each year in search of better or safer lives, European Union leaders are preparing in coming days to take more steps to keep migrants out.
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Jun 21, 2018
A social media account run by the office of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi quotes her as saying that "hate narratives from outside the country" have fueled tensions between Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Rakhine communities in the country's west.
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Jun 21, 2018
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar met in Ethiopia for ‘Hail Mary' talks, but misery remains widespread in their country.
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Jun 21, 2018
The Latest on the influx of migrants in Europe (all times local):
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Jun 21, 2018
Expects say that talk of a canal to cut off Qatar could be "psychological warfare."
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Jun 21, 2018
Burger King's Russia team has pulled back its offer and apologized.
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Jun 21, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not implicated in this case, but the charges against his wife could have far-reaching consequences for him.
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Jun 21, 2018
A state news agency is quoting a Russian human rights official as saying that jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov is in satisfactory condition despite a monthlong hunger strike.
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Jun 21, 2018
A government official denied rumors Thursday that the illness of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's powerful ruling party leader, has sparked infighting at the highest political levels.
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Jun 21, 2018
They were among 50,924 migrants arrested by the Border Patrol in April. Now their smuggler was offering them another chance to cross. And their American jobs were waiting.
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Jun 21, 2018
Algeria's prime minister has called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth term in April 2019, despite his age and partial paralysis.
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Jun 21, 2018
Israeli prosecutors have charged Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister's wife, with a series of crimes including fraud and breach of trust.
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Jun 21, 2018
Indonesia's military chief said Thursday that specialist navy equipment will be deployed to pinpoint a ferry that sank in the crater lake of an ancient supervolcano, offering a glimmer of hope to distraught relatives that the bodies of more than 180 people presumed drowned will be recovered.
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