Israeli authorities say a Palestinian driver slammed his truck into pedestrians at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, wounding three people. The bloodshed Thursday was the latest in a …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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8/31/23
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Chinese state media report at least 121 passenger trains are suspending service in anticipation of the arrival of Typhoon Saola, while people in coastal areas of southern China were being warned to …
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8/31/23
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India is one of the fastest growing electric vehicle markets in the world, and more than 90% of India’s 2.3 million EVs are the cheaper and more popular two- or three-wheelers — that’s …
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By SIBI ARASU
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8/30/23
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If you hail a rickshaw in the Indian city of Bengaluru, your driver might just be a 38-year-old transgender woman named Preethi. Not that long ago, Preethi says she was surviving by begging for money …
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By SIBI ARASU
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8/30/23
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Mexico’s Navy says it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal hooks to snag gill nets that trap vaquita marina porpoises. The Navy began dropping the blocks …
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By FERNANDA PESCE
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8/30/23
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Three people have been arrested in the Dominican Republic as part of an ongoing investigation into a powerful explosion at a plastics company that killed at least 34 people earlier this month. A …
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By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA
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8/30/23
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Police west of Toronto warned drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. Pedestrians were also asked to avoid the area. Halton …
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8/30/23
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A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late …
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By JAMEY KEATEN and YURAS KARMANAU
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8/30/23
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An Israeli court has ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son must compensate a woman who sued him after he implied she was having an affair with his father’s chief political …
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By JULIA FRANKEL
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8/30/23
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The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, knew well the threat of military coups in his part of the world. But he swore one wouldn’t happen to him. “Rest assured that I will never allow you and …
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By CARA ANNA
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8/30/23
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Fighting has erupted in a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank between Palestinians and their own security forces, Palestinian authorities said, leaving a 25-year-old Palestinian dead. The …
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By ISABEL DEBRE
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8/30/23
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet has classified Moldova and Georgia as so-called “safe countries of origin,” meaning asylum-seekers from there can be rejected and deported faster than in the …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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8/30/23
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The Kremlin says “deliberate wrongdoing” is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week. A Kremlin spokesperson noted that “different …
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8/30/23
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More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates are urging Bangladesh to suspend legal proceedings against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the use of microcredit …
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By JULHAS ALAM
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8/30/23
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Poland's health authorities say the death toll from Legionnaires' disease has risen to 16 with another 140 people infected in the southeast region close to the border with Ukraine. Laboratory tests …
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8/30/23
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A defense lawyer says Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will remain in prison for another two weeks despite being granted bail. An anti-terrorism court has extended his detention in a …
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By MUNIR AHMED
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8/30/23
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Pope heads to Mongolia to minister to its few Catholics and complete centuries-old East-West mission
Pope Francis is travelling to Mongolia this week to minister to one of the world's tiniest and newest Catholic communities, the first-ever visit by a Roman pontiff to the East Asian country. In some …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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8/30/23
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Typhoon Saola has strengthened overnight as it continues its path across the Pacific and heads for China’s southern coast. The typhoon is moving northwest with sustained winds of 118 mph and gusts …
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By HUIZHONG WU
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8/30/23
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Britain’s top diplomat, James Cleverly, has begun a long-awaited visit to China as the two countries attempt to stabilize ties that have frayed in recent years. The trip is the first by a United …
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8/30/23
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India protests China's land claim ahead of the G20 summit President Xi Jinping is expected to attend
An Indian foreign ministry official says New Delhi has lodged a protest over a new Chinese map that lays claim to India’s territory. The objection comes ahead of the G20 summit of industrialized …
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By ASHOK SHARMA
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8/30/23
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