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Philippine fishing boat explosion and fire kill 6 crewmembers while 6 others...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least six crewmembers of a fishing boat were killed when an explosion and a fire hit their vessel at sea nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) off a central Philippine...

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Sudanese RSF paramilitaries clash with the army, leaving at least 100 people...

CAIRO (AP) — At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said. Women,...

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Dutch exit poll suggests neck and neck race between far right and center left...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union parliamentary elections kicked off in the Netherlands on Thursday with an exit poll suggesting that Geert Wilders’ far-right party made big gains and was...

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Russian warships will arrive in Havana next week, say Cuban officials citing...

HAVANA (AP) — Four Russian ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations...

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Nearly 50 years after her death, Uruguay lays to rest a woman disappeared by...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military's prison...

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Panama community pushed from Caribbean island by rising sea levels moves into...

ISBERYALA, Panama (AP) — Hammocks began appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast for families from the country's...

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Amanda Knox vows to 'fight for the truth' after Italian court convicts her...

MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox told Italian TV on Thursday that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court's decision to find her guilty of slander in light of a European court ruling that police who...

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Two British judges resign from Hong Kong court. One cites the city's...

HONG KONG (AP) — Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, the city’s judiciary said, deepening worries over the city's rule of law under a Beijing-imposed national security law....

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Israeli strike kills at least 33 people at a Gaza school the military claims...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed at least 33 people, including 12 women and children, according to...

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Third term for Modi likely to see closer defense ties with US as India's...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Fresh from declaring victory in India's election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered few details on the agenda for his third term, but went out of his way to underline he would...

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Vietnam national security police confirm arrest of prominent writer Truong...

BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Vietnam announced Friday that they have charged prominent journalist and historian Truong Huy San with violating a national security law because of writing he had posted...

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Rishi Sunak apologizes for skipping a D-Day ceremony to return to the...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail — a decision slammed as disgraceful by his...

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The Latest | Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, a day after strike...

An Israeli airstrike hit a U.N.-run school compound in northern Gaza on Friday, killing three people according to Palestinian emergency officials, a day after a similar strike on a school in Gaza's...

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Irish and Czech voters go to the polls on Day 2 of EU elections as the far...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic, two countries where immigration was a key issue on the campaign trail, took to the polls on Friday, the second day of the balloting for the...

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Gunmen open fire on students at a rural University of Panama campus, killing...

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Two unidentified gunmen opened fire on a group of students on a rural campus of the University of Panama Friday, killing one and wounding another before escaping, according...

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Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has...

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UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights in...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to...

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Yemen's Houthi rebels detain 11 UN staffers as well as aid workers in sudden...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Eleven Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen's Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels...

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Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach, 91, arrested on sexual...

TORONTO (AP) — Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach was arrested Friday on sexual assault charges covering decades, police said Friday. Stronach, 91, was charged with five crimes...

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India's Modi elected as leader of coalition and set to form new government

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was formally elected leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most seats in the national election after his...

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