U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with Papua New Guinea leaders to discuss developing the Pacific Island nation’s military strength and deepening security ties, as the U.S. competes with …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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7/27/23
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Palestinian health officials say Israeli military fire killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. The death came hours before an extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG and ISAAC SCHARF
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7/27/23
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Two of Taiwan’s largest cities have shut down schools and offices Thursday as Typhoon Doksuri brought heavy rains and winds to the island’s eastern and southern coast. Doksuri weakened further on …
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By HUIZHONG WU
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7/27/23
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The wife and daughter of exiled Chinese dissident Gao Zhi are in detention on immigration charges in Thailand, after a series of bomb threats made in their names against airports, luxury hotels and …
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By HUIZHONG WU, TIAN MACLEOD JI and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
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7/27/23
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Survivors of a pod of almost 100 whales that beached on the southwest Australian coast have been euthanized after a second day of frantic, but unsucessfulv efforts to rescue them. The pod of …
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7/26/23
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A prominent journalist in Belarus has been sentenced to six years in prison, the latest step in a years-long crackdown on opposition figures, independent journalists and human rights activists. On …
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By YURAS KARMANAU
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7/26/23
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It was once Latin America’s largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro closed it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, snails, …
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By MARIO LOBÃO and DIANE JEANTET
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7/26/23
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors is on strike again, demanding better pay and working conditions for its members. The doctors decided after their meeting on Tuesday night to embark on a …
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By CHINEDU ASADU
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7/26/23
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country’s infected blood scandal, which saw more than 2,000 …
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By SYLVIA HUI
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7/26/23
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Some African leaders have arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin seeks more allies amid the fighting in Ukraine. Putin has billed the two-day summit that opens …
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7/26/23
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Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones. Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater have been discovered under the garden of the future Four Seasons Hotel. Ancient …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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7/26/23
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China’s sharp-tongued foreign minister, Qin Gang, was something of an avatar for nationalist Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping, warning of “conflict and confrontation” with the …
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7/26/23
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Iran says it gave new details to the U.N. about two sites near Tehran that inspectors say bore traces of manmade uranium. The comments Wednesday by Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s civilian …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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7/26/23
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A Palestinian man was killed in a shootout with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in one of the most violent stretches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years. …
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7/26/23
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Singapore has executed a man for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman on Friday. She will be the first female hanged in the city-state in 19 years. The new executions have prompted renewed …
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7/26/23
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Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire populist who was ousted by a 2006 military coup, plans to return home next month from years of self-imposed exile, as Thailand …
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
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7/26/23
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The European Union’s official watchdog says it has opened a probe into the role of the bloc’s Frontex border agency in the shipwreck off Greece last month that is feared to have killed hundreds …
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By RAF CASERT
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7/26/23
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Japan's population has declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its population of foreign residents reached a new high of almost 3 million people, highlighting …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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7/26/23
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The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions. …
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG
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7/26/23
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A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched in June to try to recapture its land from Russian forces. Surgeons at the Mechnikov Hospital, one of the …
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By SAMYA KULLAB
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7/26/23
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