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Indonesia’s newly inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto and his cabinet ministers have started a military-style retreat at a military academy in the Java province

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A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s

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An Israeli airstrike that hit a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon has killed three journalists who were covering the Israel-Hezbollah war

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Greek ferry crews have curtailed a four-day strike by several hours, announcing Friday they would go back on the job in the early afternoon instead of at midnight

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Myanmar’s state-run media say security forces have arrested the son-in-law of the country’s former longtime military ruler, Than Shwe, for allegedly posting inflammatory statements on his Facebook account

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised support for Bosnia as the troubled Balkan country struggles with reform needed to advance toward membership in the European Union

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The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at least five people

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Russia’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by two percentage points to a record-high 21% in an effort to combat growing inflation

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Russian central bank hikes interest rate to record-high 21%, to fight inflation fueled by military spending

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend

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Authorities in Bosnia have described an attack by a teenager who broke into a police station — killing one officer and wounding another — as an act of terrorism

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have held wide-ranging discussions to bolster strategic ties between the two countries

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French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies

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As the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor weighed war crimes charges this year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he was engulfed in a behind-the-scenes personal crisis

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As the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor sought war crimes charges this year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he was engulfed in a behind-the-scenes personal crisis

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suggested that Poland’s government and its prime minister, Donald Tusk, were installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing populist leadership

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Moscow's war on Ukraine is looming large on both sides of the campaign.

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A Sherpa teenager who’s won mountaineering celebrity as the youngest person ever to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks called for Sherpas to be recognized as athletes and expedition leaders as well as porters and guides

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A group campaigning for Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iranian authorities have issued an additional six-month prison sentence against her

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Environmental activist Paul Watson, who is detained in Greenland and facing possible extradition to Japan, has formally requested French citizenship after France’s Foreign Minister said his bid for political asylum could not be processed because he is ...

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Israeli strike kills 38 people Friday morning in Khan Younis, Gaza health officials say

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A Philippine police official says 33 people were killed mostly in landslides set off by a storm south of Manila.

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Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity

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The Polish capital is holding the grand opening of new modern art museum designed by the American architect Thomas Phifer

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Authorities say three Indian soldiers and their two civilian porters have been killed in a rebel ambush in Indian-controlled Kashmir

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One of Japan’s largest travel agencies says a tourist died and 12 other people were injured when their a tour bus smashed into the rear of a truck on a highway in Malaysia

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Authorities say a group of militants attacked a security post in northwest Pakistan and killed 10 officers in an intense shootout

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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli airstrike hit guesthouses where journalists were staying in southeast Lebanon, killing three media staffers from two different news agencies

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Tropical storm Trami has blown away from the northwestern Philippines, leaving at least 82 people dead mostly in extensive flooding and landslides

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Bulgarians will cast ballots on Sunday in the seventh general elections in just over three years as their country faces growing political instability that might further enhance the popularity of pro-Russian and far-right groups

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Israeli strikes have killed 38 people in Gaza and three journalists in Lebanon on Friday

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Lebanon state news says an Israeli airstrike on a journalist compound killed 3 TV staffers

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Oct. 18-24, 2024Millions of Cubans were left without electricity for days after the nation’s energy grid went down when one of the island’s major power plants failed.The Amazon River naturally fluctuates during the dry and rainy seasons. But a dramatic drop has been evident since 2023. In Colombia, the river’s fall has isolated some Indigenous communities, prompting nonprofits and the government to deliver water and food to places that depend on rain and river water to survive.Hundreds of people turned out for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico State of Chiapas. The Rev. Pérez had worked to bring peace to the highlands and border regions of Chiapas, where two drug cartels are battling for control.It is one of the most striking scenes to happen every year in Panama's northern province of Colón: Every Oct. 21, the province celebrates the festival of the Black Christ of Portobelo....

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The South Caucasus country of Georgia will go to the polls Saturday in a parliamentary election many citizens believe may be the most crucial vote of their lifetimes

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Lithuanians will vote Sunday in the second round of parliamentary elections, with the conservative governing party still in contention despite first-round gains for the left-leaning opposition

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As night descended in an ecological park in central Mexico, tiny stars appeared in the sky one by one, aligning into constellations

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Tropical Storm Dana is bringing strong winds and heavy rain to India’s eastern coast, uprooting trees and raising the risk of floods after nearly 600,000 people evacuated

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King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes” after an Australian diplomat led a group of Western nations in renewing concerns about human rights viola...

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Australia and the United Kingdom have deepened ties by agreeing to collaborate on climate change and energy initiatives, aiming to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, while also reaffirming their mutual commitment to develop nuclear submarines for...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling party, dogged by corruption scandals and plunging support for his weeks-old government, faces its toughest challenge in decades in Sunday’s parliamentary election

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Bosnian police say a minor broke into a police station in northwest Bosnia on Thursday and killed one officer with a knife and injured another

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Police say a minor broke into a police station in northwest Bosnia, killed one officer and wounded another

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Hurricane Kristy has strengthened into a Category 5 storm

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Hurricane Kristy strengthens into a Category 5 storm in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters say

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Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou has died in a hospital in the country’s capital, Niamey

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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa recounts the horrors he witnessed volunteering at a Khan Younis hospital in Gaza.

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A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people

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A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 police officers

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