Officials in Thailand have traced to a recycling foundry a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that had gone missing from a power plant. They say there appears to be no public health hazard. The …
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By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA
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3/20/23
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Northern Ireland’s main British unionist party says it will vote against a deal struck by Britain and the European Union to resolve a thorny trade dispute that vexed U.K.-EU relations. Democratic …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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3/20/23
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British police say windows at India’s High Commission in London have been smashed and two security guards were slightly injured during a demonstration by Sikh protesters. London’s Metropolitan …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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3/20/23
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South African police on Monday monitored protests by the country’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party, which is demanding the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The party urged all …
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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME
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3/20/23
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Spanish environmental groups have called on the European Union to open an inquiry into the approval of 26.4 million euros of “green” recovery funds to join two ski resorts in the rapidly warming …
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By JENNIFER O'MAHONY
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3/20/23
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At least three Kenyan legislators and several protesters have been arrested in ongoing protests in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, organized by the opposition demanding the resignation of President …
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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI
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3/20/23
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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the Group of Seven major industrial nations summit in May. He's later expected to announce a new plan for a …
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ
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3/20/23
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A major new United Nations report being released Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. …
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By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN
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3/20/23
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Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates. The discovery further expands this young …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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3/20/23
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Police have arrested the first Australian veteran for an alleged murder in Afghanistan three years after a war crime investigation found that 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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3/20/23
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Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China next week, in what a spokesman called a bid to ease tensions between the self-ruled island and the mainland.Ma presided over a period of warm …
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By HUIZHONG WU
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3/20/23
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A lawyer says a former United States military pilot could have been lured from China to Australia as part of a U.S. plan to extradite him. Daniel Duggan has been in custody in Australia since …
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3/19/23
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a political boost for the isolated Russian president after the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes in …
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By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and JOE McDONALD
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3/19/23
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North Korea has described its weekend ballistic missile launch as a simulated nuclear attack on South Korea. The North's leader, Kim Jong Un, called Monday for his nuclear forces to sharpen their war …
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG
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3/19/23
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The toll from an earthquake that rocked Ecuador and Peru this weekend stands at 15 dead. And a day after Saturday's tragedy, residents of the hardest-hit coastal regions of southwest Ecuador are …
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By GONZALO SOLANO and REGINA GARCIA CANO
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3/19/23
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The longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that his tell-all memoir has been criticized for casting Pope Francis in an unfavorable light. But Archbishop Georg Gaenswein insisted …
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3/19/23
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Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republicans party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party to vote to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. …
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3/19/23
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Publication of a major new United Nations report on climate change is being held up by a battle between powerful rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable …
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By FRANK JORDANS
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3/19/23
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Pope Francis has offered prayers for the victims of the earthquake that shook vast swaths of territory in Ecuador and parts of Peru. During his weekly Sunday noon blessing, Francis recalled that the …
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3/19/23
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Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by depleted oxygen levels in the river after recent floods and hot weather. …
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3/19/23
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