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  • Money for the wall US President Donald Trump wants to build along the US border with Mexico must be part of the massive spending bill Congress is preparing, the White House budget director said.…

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  • A verdict is due on April 27 in the trial by military court of Radio France Internationale journalist Ahmed Abba who is accused of complicity with Boko Haram. Cameroonian prosecutors have…

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  • Police arrested a man on suspicion he attacked the bus of German soccer team Borussia Dortmund GmbH last week, hoping to profit from a slump in the publicly traded club’s share price.

    The…

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  • Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif survived a Supreme Court ruling Thursday over corruption allegations that could have seen him ousted from office.

    The five-judge panel, formed by…

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  • South Korea said on Friday it was on heightened alert ahead of another important anniversary in North Korea, with a large concentration of military hardware amassed on both sides of the border…

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  • Venezuela’s opposition renewed protests across the country on Thursday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’s government to hold elections, a day after three people were killed in similar…

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  • A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others on Paris's Champs Elysees in an attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group days before a…

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  • The number of people applying for asylum in Mexico has soared by more than 150% since Donald Trump was elected US president, according to Mexican data, as more Central American migrants seek to…

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  • The United Nations said late Tuesday that 16 staff members taken hostage by unarmed South Sudanese refugees at a UN camp in a restive eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been…

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  • The government-affiliated Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says 669 people were killed in several months of violence that led to the country’s current state of emergency.

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  • US President Donald Trump has set the wheels in motion for H-1B visa reform.

    On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to implement a «Buy American, Hire…

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  • French police say they have foiled an imminent attack leading up to the presidential election, with the arrest of two men in Marseille on Tuesday.

    Explosives and multiple weapons were found…

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  • Gaza’s main hospital is on the verge of running out of fuel, doctors have warned, amid a deepening power crisis affecting more than two million people already living under a crippling Israeli…

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  • Britain’s Parliament voted Wednesday on holding a snap election in June, as Prime Minister Theresa May seeks to make strong gains against the opposition ahead of grueling Brexit negotiations.

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  • One person has been killed and at least four others have been injured in an attack in southern Sinai.  The attack, near Egypt’s St. Catherine’s Monastery, has been claimed by the self-styled…

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  • A report released on Tuesday said the US bombed a Syrian mosque in an airstrike last month, which the US military had denied.

    The Human Rights Watch report on the attack on Omar Ibn al-…

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  • British Prime Minister Theresa May called on Tuesday for an early election on June 8, saying the government had the right plan for negotiating the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union…

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  • North Korea has warned its army is on “maximum alert” after the US vice president visited the heavily militarized border between the two Koreas and reiterated Washington’s position that “all…

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  • US Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese leaders began talks on Tuesday expected to focus largely on trade with America’s anchor ally in the region, though tensions with North Korea loomed large…

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  • US President Donald Trump called on his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to congratulate him on winning a referendum granting him sweeping new powers that exposed bitter divisions in the…

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  • Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes says he will not be a candidate in the 2018 election even if Congress approves a constitutional amendment to allow a second term. Cartes made the announcement…

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  • Venezuela’s defense minister on Monday declared the army’s loyalty to President Nicolas Maduro who ordered troops into the streets ahead of a major protest by opponents trying to oust him.

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  • The movement behind more than three weeks of social unrest in French Guiana said on Monday it would press its action until the government signs a draft accord on an emergency package and reopens…

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  • The Nigerian Army has freed over 1,600 people from Boko Haram hideouts in the northeast region, killing at least 21 militants in the operation, the military announced.

    Army Spokesman Brig.…

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  • China reiterated on Monday its opposition to the deployment of a sophisticated US anti-missile system in South Korea.

    Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang voiced China’s opposition to the…

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