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China Under Pressure To Free Ailing Nobel Laureate

China faced sustained international pressure on Thursday to let cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo seek...

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US Seeks To Renegotiate S.Korea Free Trade Deal

The United States formally declared Thursday it wants to renegotiate its free trade agreement with South Korea, as the...

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China’s Uighur Muslims Struggle Under ‘police State’

Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China's far western city of...

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China Says Trade With N.Korea Up 10.5% In First Half

China's first-half trade with North Korea rose 10.5 percent year-on-year, Chinese officials said Thursday, as the US...

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Corrupt Former FIFA Official Chuck Blazer Dead

Former top football official Chuck Blazer, whose evidence to US investigators helped trigger the FIFA corruption...

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Shadowy App Turkey Says Was Key To Coup Bid

It's the app Ankara says provided the messaging hub for many of the suspected plotters who took part in last year's...

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Asian Markets Rally With Wall St As Yellen Sparks Buying Spree

Asian markets surged on Thursday, extending a global rally that saw another record on Wall Street after the head of the...

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Prisoner Aid Cut Could Trigger Palestinian Crisis

International pressure on the Palestinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli...

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In Reversal, Afghan Girls Get US Visas To Attend Robotics Competition

A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition are now allowed to come,...

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Mexican Artist Aims For Record Mural On US Border Wall

On the imposing metal sheets of the border fence that divides Tijuana, Mexico from San Diego, California, a hand...

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UN Identifies 38 New Probable Mass Graves In DR Congo

Another 38 probable mass graves have been discovered in DR Congo in the country's troubled central region of Kasai, the...

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CNN Video Shows Trump With Figures Linked To Russia Email Controversy

CNN on Wednesday released a video showing Donald Trump attending a dinner with key figures at the center of a growing...

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Trump Jets Off To Paris As Russia Crisis Plagues Washington

US President Donald Trump departed for France Wednesday, as yet another political firestorm swirled in Washington over...

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Trump’s FBI Nominee Wray Vows He Won’t ‘pull Punches’

High-flying criminal lawyer Christopher Wray took a big step Wednesday toward becoming the next director of the FBI as...

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Trump Says He Gets Along ‘very, Very Well’ With Putin

US President Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he has a good relationship with Russian President...

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Parliament Reconstitutes Committees

Parliament has reconstituted its committees. This follows the appointment of some Committee chairmen into ministerial...

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Switzerland Supports Ghana With $80 Million

The Federal Republic of Switzerland has earmarked an amount of $80 million to support the enhanced competitiveness of...

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NPP MP ‘fights’ Majority Leader Over Committee Position

Drama unfolded on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, when two Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Majority side in...

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Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Convicted of Corruption

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and...