Trade, climate change and the war in Ukraine are on the agenda as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who is on his first foreign trip since taking office. The meeting …
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6/20/23
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Thousands of poor Filipinos risk their lives by living and working in villages inside a permanent danger zone around Mayon volcano. The Philippines' most active volcano began expelling lava a week …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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6/19/23
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A new report from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people living downstream from the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened by the end …
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By SIBI ARASU
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6/19/23
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The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean has risen to 81 after three more bodies were found off southern Greece. Also, survivors have claimed that …
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS
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6/19/23
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Four temples from ancient Rome stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads. But until this week, practically the only ones getting a close-up view were cats, who prowled …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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6/19/23
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Members of the United Nations have adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas. The U.N.'s chief, Antonio Guterres, is hailing the historic agreement. He says it gives the …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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6/19/23
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Dozens of migrants who packed a fishing vessel that sank off Greece last week came from impoverished farming communities in Egypt’s Nile Delta. Days after the tragedy, one mother fears that her son …
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By SAMY MAGDY
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6/19/23
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Britain’s House of Commons is likely to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson lied to lawmakers about lockdown-flouting parties in his office. That would be a humiliating censure that would …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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6/19/23
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Nearly 170 people have died in two of India’s most populous states in recent days amid a sweltering heat wave, as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and routine power outages add to the …
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By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH, PIYUSH NAGPAL and SIBI ARASU
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6/19/23
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang has started a visit to Germany and France that is his first trip abroad since taking office. The visit comes as Europe seeks to balance concerns over economic dependence on …
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6/19/23
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The United Nations is rebuking Moscow for allegedly denying its aid workers access to Russian-occupied areas affected by the recent Kakhova dam collapse in southern Ukraine. The breach stranded …
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By SUSIE BLANN
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6/19/23
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Australia’s Senate has voted for a referendum to be held this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocacy body to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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6/18/23
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Exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press show that Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while …
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By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT
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6/18/23
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A Greek news web site has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday's deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece. More than 500 people are feared drowned after an …
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By DEMETRIS NELLAS
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6/18/23
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke after reports in …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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6/18/23
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Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. The interior ministers are traveling …
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6/18/23
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A Ugandan border town is preparing to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students. Security forces have stepped up patrols along …
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
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6/18/23
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Mali's military junta holds referendum on new constitution that it calls a step toward new elections
Malian voters are casting ballots on whether to approve a new constitution. The coup leader in charge of the West African country says that Sunday's referendum is one of the steps toward holding new …
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By BABA AHMED
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6/18/23
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Sudan’s warring parties have begun a cease-fire, as two months of fighting pushed the African nation into further chaos. The three-day cease-fire has taken effect Sunday morning. It comes ahead of …
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By SAMY MAGDY
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6/18/23
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For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with …
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By YURAS KARMANAU
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6/18/23
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