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Kenya is moving 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in what has been hailed as a conservation success
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A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws
October 15, 2024In the heartland of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have changed and violence rages
Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside the Sinaloa drug cartel
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UN accuses Venezuela of crimes against humanity in post-election violence
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Puerto Rico police investigate 8 deaths and about two dozen suspected fentanyl overdoses in one town
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Mexican president acknowledges army killings of 3 civilians in a violent border city
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$55 million plan to give Notre Dame area a green facelift is part of Paris-wide eco plan
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Belarus adds 1 year to imprisoned opposition activist's sentence
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Hezbollah vows to expand attacks in Israel after deadly strike in Lebanon's Christian heartland
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A grand museum displaying Egypt's ancient treasures is opening for a trial run
The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
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Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria
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Head of Myanmar's military government urges ethnic rebels to join peace talks
The head of Myanmar’s military government has invited ethnic rebels to hold peace talks to end armed conflict across the country
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Russia releases man whose daughter's drawing opposed Ukraine fighting
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Tubeworms, snails discovered beneath Pacific Ocean seafloor: Study
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Qatar's ruler says his nation will vote on abandoning legislative elections after just one poll
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UN asks Asia-Pacific countries to invest more in preventing damage from disasters
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A Saudi cartoonist has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, activists say
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Several thousand attend a funeral service in southern Bosnia for 19 killed in devastating floods
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Kenya's High Court rejects move to stop deputy president's impeachment debate
Kenya’s High Court has rejected an application by the deputy president’s lawyers to stop the senate from debating an impeachment motion against him after parliament voted to remove him from office last week
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Suspect in mass shootings in South Africa that left 18 dead abandons his bail application
A man charged with killing 18 people in mass shootings in two separate homes on the same night in South Africa has abandoned his bail application and remains in custody
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A gang leader in Haiti is injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police
Police in Haiti said that a leader of one of that country's powerful gangs has been injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year
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Hereditary nobles have sat in Britain's Parliament for centuries. Their time may be up
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4 people die in a migrant boat accident off a Greek island
Greek authorities say four people, including two children, have died off the island of Kos in an accident involving a migrant smuggling boat crossing from nearby Turkey
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World conkers tournament investigates claims of cheating with steel chestnut
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Canada-India dispute over assassination allegations could impact Modi's global ambitions
A diplomatic row that has strained bilateral relations between India and Canada for over a year has boiled over as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada and allegations of other crimes there
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Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Ni?o, the UN says
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Albania says only Italy is allowed to operate migrant asylum centers in the country
Albania’s prime minister says his government turned down many requests from other European Union countries to take in thousands of asylum-seekers but made an exception for Italy
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South Korea fires warning shots after North Korea blows up border roads
South Korea's military said Tuesday it detected explosions on two cross-border roads connecting the country to North Korea.
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After 67 days adrift, a Russian man was rescued but his brother and nephew are dead
A Russian man has been rescued in the Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for two months in an inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew have died
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Taliban-run media stops showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces
A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws
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Slovak government and South Korea's Hyundai Mobis sign a deal to build an electric car parts plant
The Slovak government and Hyundai Mobis have signed a memorandum of understanding on the South Korean company’s plan to build a plant for engines and other parts for electric cars in Slovakia
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France's budget battle: Why the government's plan to plug the deficit is sparking an outcry
France’s new government has unveiled its 2025 belt-tightening budget bill, with plans for major tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at tackling the country’s giant deficit
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South Korea fires warning shots after North Korea blows up border roads
The explosions follow several months of rising cross-border tensions.
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Violence-hit Pakistan locks down its capital for an Asian security meeting
Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several nations arrive for an Asian security group meeting
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Middle East latest: Hezbollah's acting leader says the group is focused on hurting Israel
Hezbollah’s acting leader says the Lebanese militant group is focused on “hurting the enemy” by targeting Haifa and other parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv
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How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India expelling each other's diplomats?
Relations between India and Canada are at a low point as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada
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China unveils its plans to turn its feats in space exploration into scientific advances
China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon
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A Hong Kong zoo seeks answers after 9 monkeys die in 2 days
Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species
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King Charles III set to visit Australia and Samoa on a trip spanning a dozen time zones
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A pastry brought to Mexico by British miners is still popular after 200 years
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Campaigning begins for Japan's parliamentary election
Official campaigning has begun for Japan's Oct. 27 parliamentary election
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