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Today in History: September 5, Pan Am hijacking kills 20 passengers, crew members

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UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size

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Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak town as haze reaches critical level

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Why Mexican cartels are increasingly using car bombs and other explosives

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Women gathered in a small Iranian town for a wedding. Then a deadly US strike hit

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What to know about UK-controlled Falkland Islands after Argentina's president stakes claim

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Rome mounts a crackdown on golf carts that are increasingly popular with tourists

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Russia now bombards Kyiv during the day as well as at night

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Jordan's alliance with the US makes the kingdom a target for Iranian strikes

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Russian drone strikes Ukraine security service headquarters as US talks on the war are expected

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Rescuers pull 2 trapped workers from a hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods

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Israel releases more 4 more prisoners, a shipping slowdown and other Mideast news

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Today in History: September 4, Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis

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British police try to track down theft of 70,000 pints worth of Guinness stout

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US hits Cuba with new sanctions as island's crises multiply

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Volkswagen board approves cutting 50,000 more jobs and closing 4 plants

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Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science

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Robotaxi service debuts on London's busy streets as Europe weighs more self-driving vehicles

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German far-right party targets iconic Bauhaus school ahead of landmark state election

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Ukraine's drone attacks caused turmoil for Russians throughout summer

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Netanyahu's big reelection concern isn't his political rivals. It's some of his biggest supporters

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Pacific island nations seek to turn geopolitics into funding to offset climate change harm

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Russia to close German cultural centers amid deepening tensions with Europe over supporting Ukraine

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A Lebanese man held prisoner in Israel is released and handed over to Lebanon

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Proud of their oil, Venezuelans view US stake in their reserves as a surrender

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A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage

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Trading food for medicine and crossing the river by zip line are part of life in Nepal flood zone

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USS Lincoln crew hits the streets of Thai beach city after lengthy Middle East deployment

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Iran targets Kuwait in retaliation for US bombardments, and other Mideast news

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Today in History: September 3, British journalist breaks automobile speed record

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Tens of thousands in Spain protest Ceuta border crisis

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Milo Yiannopoulos sours on ICE, Trump after being deported

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'Aura farming' trend inspired by video games is sweeping Latin America

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After fleeing Afghanistan to continue educating girls, SOLA opens a permanent school in Rwanda

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Italy has started exporting a delicacy prized abroad, reviled at home

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Xi visits Egypt as China seeks deeper influence across the Mideast

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EU struggles to find an effective response after Germany blames Russia for a failed drone attack

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Russian strikes kill 2 Ukrainian civilians as Moscow and Kyiv threaten to raise the stakes

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Symbolic funerals held in Nepal for those feared lost as some missing tourists make contact

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Congo's Ebola outbreak shows no signs of slowing as deaths top 3,000

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China presses the US for answers after a man dies hours after entering ICE custody

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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

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US oil giant Chevron confirms it will expand operations in Venezuela

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Today in History: September 2, fire engulfs dive boat off Southern California, killing 34

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Cuba's tourism plummets 62% after US pressure and energy embargo

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Jewish artists clap back at antisemitism accusations against Mark Ruffalo

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Venezuela's main airport partially resumes commercial flights after deadly earthquakes

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Syria was building a nuclear reactor in Deir el-Zour under Assad, UN reports

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Carney tells Trump 'Stop trying to be tough'

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Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist

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As Spain swelters, a centuries-old accessory is having a moment

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UN food agency halves West Bank aid because of funding shortages, warns new cuts may be needed

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China warns of 'consequences' for Taiwan after Taipei envoys attend Pacific leaders summit

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Germany blames Russia for last month's attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport

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Why finding missing workers from Nepal's hydropower tunnels is proving to be difficult

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Russia pounds Kyiv for more than 12 hours, killing at least a dozen in 6th straight day of attacks

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Mass burials in Nepal as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000

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Schools reopen in Congo's Ebola epicenter despite concerns from parents and teachers

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Thailand anticipates USS Abraham Lincoln visit following its Middle East deployment

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US and Iran trade strikes, and other Mideast news

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Today in History: September 1, first Japanese baseball player makes MLB debut

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Dramatically low flyby by passenger jets over packed South African stadium sparks safety debate

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Lionel Messi retires from Argentina's national soccer team

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School starts soon in Lebanon but thousands still shelter in them during war

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Leaders of China, Russia and India are among heads of state meeting to counter US influence

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This principal in Nepal evacuated 900 students before flooding swept away their school

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Russia's jet-powered drones bring empty Kyiv supermarket shelves and rattle Ukrainians

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Congo authorities report more than 6,000 confirmed Ebola cases and nearly 3,000 deaths

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Hundreds feared stuck in hydropower tunnels as flood deaths surpass 950 in Nepal and China

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New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says

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United Arab Emirates says it intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters

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Today in History: August 31, Princess Diana dies in Paris tunnel crash

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Today in History: August 30, Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Black Supreme Court justice

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Today in History: August 29, Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana

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Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

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Virginia family with 4 relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods pleads for more rescue help

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A theater is reimagining Homer's Odyssey through the agony of Ukraine's war

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UN agency warns of 17,000 children in urgent need of assistance as aid reaches some Nepal survivors

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United Nations talks in Mongolia expose growing drought crisis as climate impacts worsen

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Hong Kong court hears arguments over sentencing for former Tiananmen vigil organizers

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What to know about Iceland's vote on whether to restart talks to join the EU

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Russian drones batter Ukraine's Kyiv region, hitting apartments and warehouses for a second day

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Quebec's governing party names Trump its 'real adversary' as election begins

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Israeli strikes kill 5 in Gaza and 3 in West Bank, and other news in the Middle East

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Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with a total of 60 areas now affected

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How to help after Nepal and Tibet's catastrophic floods

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Six months on, the Iran war has changed the Middle East, but not in the way its architects had hoped

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Norway's King Harald V dies at 89 and his son becomes King Haakon VIII

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Ebola is still killing in central Africa. These groups are working to save lives

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US, South Korea and Japan to hold trilateral drill as North Korea ramps up pressure on US

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Rescuers retrieve flood survivors caked in mud as death toll in Nepal-China border disaster climbs

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Today in History: August 28, police, protesters clash outside Democratic National Convention

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Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded

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For everything from troubled hearts to lost keys, Greeks bake cakes for a wish-granting saint

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Parents and teachers in Congo urge delay of school resumption as Ebola outbreak rages on

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Jerusalem court acquits a man indicted in nun attack, orders psychiatric care

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Another former Malaysia prime minister faces criminal charges after leaving office

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Britons get the chance to read Jason Arday's story for themselves as memoir is published in the UK

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Chinese foreign minister calls for US and China to 'overcome obstacles' ahead of presidential summit

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Official leading Trump's Gaza ceasefire effort criticizes Israel for its attacks

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