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Today in History: August 15, car bomb kills 29 in Northern Ireland

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off coast of Indonesia and tsunami warning issued

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Country singer Colt Ford injured in tour bus crash in Germany

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Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead

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Italian Carabinieri recover stolen Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse artworks worth millions

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Persistent Etna ash shuts Sicily's busiest airport during peak holiday week

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Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs and education

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Palestinians besieged in West Bank village fear Israeli settlers will seize their homes

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How to help after Colombia's devastating earthquake

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Russian drones kill a woman and 9-year-old son at home as Ukrainian civilian casualties surge

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Reform UK's Nigel Farage beats a slate of fringe candidates in election boycotted by major parties

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US missionary kidnapped in Niger is released after 9 months in captivity, his organization says

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2 UAE tankers attacked while transiting Strait of Hormuz, and other news from the Middle East

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Today in History: August 14, thousands gather for last public execution in US

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Rapper NBA YoungBoy leaves U.S., living in South Korea after Trump pardon

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Broken engine parts shattered the Ryanair plane window that a passenger's head got sucked into: NTSB

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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

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Alpine resorts' snowmaking equipment may be put to work fighting summer forest fires

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Cuba marks Fidel Castro's 100th birthday as his shadow still shapes a nation in crisis

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Colombia's earthquake is déjà vu for Venezuelans. The government response is anything but

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Nigel Farage faces off against Count Binface in special election that's been denounced as a stunt

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Ukrainian drones strike a major refinery deep inside Russia, setting it ablaze

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Rescuers call for silence around earthquake rubble as window for survival narrows in Colombia

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Israeli settlers' siege of Palestinian homes draws a sharp US rebuke

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Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak reaches a sixth province

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Poland says it thwarted a Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw

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Iran-backed Houthi rebels clash with Yemeni government forces and other Mideast developments

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Today in History: August 13, New York throws ticker tape parade for Apollo 11 astronauts

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Marc Anthony, Chayanne and more to play benefit concert for Venezuela and Colombia earthquake relief

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Oman says the oil spill from a grounded tanker has reached its coastline

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Mini-Mozart heist blights anniversary tribute as thieves make off with 210 statuettes

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Kosovo begins excavations at newly found mass graves tied to 1998-99 war missing

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In Taiwan, Chinese-born spouses face questions of loyalty and, some say, discrimination

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After an earthquake, how long can trapped people survive?

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Thousands flee yearslong drought in Somalia as hunger deepens and aid shrinks

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Congo's Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history, WHO chief says

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Prosecutors amass over 800 witness statements in case against man accused of Sydney massacre

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An overnight Ukrainian blitz damages Russia's Black Sea naval stronghold, Zelenskyy says

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Millions crowd Spanish cities to see country's first total solar eclipse in over a century

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Putin threatens retaliation for Western seizures of Russian commercial vessels

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Earthquake response strains Colombia's new government and rescuers as they race against the clock

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Israel says Gaza drone strike targeted a Hamas commander, and other developments in the Mideast

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Today in History: August 12, Japan Airlines flight crashes into mountain, killing 520

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North Korea launches another missile toward sea ahead of US-South Korean military drills

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Western Canada fights growing wildfires as thousands more told to be ready to leave

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2.4 million Afghan girls shut out of secondary school 5 years after Taliban takeover, UN says

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Over 16,000 civilians detained by Russia during the war in Ukraine are still held, UN estimates

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For Nigel Farage, success brings new pressures and a showdown with Count Binface

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Australia adds optional gender identity and sexual orientation questions to census

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Trump told Ukraine it had no cards. Then Kyiv took the war to Russia

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In rejecting Trump's Gaza plan, Netanyahu reprises a balancing act he has mastered

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Russian attacks kill 10 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy says Moscow is getting more North Korean missiles

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K-pop influencer Mina Chan died by suicide on TikTok livestream: report

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As search for thousands of missing pushes on, Colombia earthquake tests new president

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Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes

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Congo says 2,000 people have died in history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak

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Iranian-backed Houthis kill 6 in attack on vessel, and other developments in the Mideast

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Today in History: August 11, DJ Kool Herc's record breaks gives birth to hip-hop

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Canada puts the military on standby as British Columbia wildfires kill 1 and displace thousands

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Ukraine's push to cripple Russia in Crimea is just getting started, drone chief says

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South Korea, US to begin exercises next week to bolster readiness against North's threats

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Death toll continues to climb after powerful earthquake in western Colombia

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A blocked Iranian flight to Yemen set off Houthis' latest spiral with Saudi Arabia

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Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people

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Ukrainian drone attack on an oil hub deep inside Russia kills 13, officials say

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WHO says Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak started months before it was declared

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Flight in Canada canceled after child refuses to sit down and buckle up

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Trump scoffs at Iran's demand for war reparations and other Mideast developments

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Today in History: August 10, Jeffrey Epstein found dead in jail cell

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Today in History: August 9, Gerald Ford declares 'our long national nightmare is over'

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Today in History: August 8, 'Great Train Robbery' thieves get away with millions

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Farmers in Kenya dispute that cyanide poisoning could have killed 16 elephants

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Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia sign a mutual defense deal, and other Middle East news

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Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation

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Suspended priest in Grenada turns to calypso to preach about sexual abuse and Gaza

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Pope Leo to meet with clergy abuse survivors during upcoming trip to France

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Plan to limit 'vertical drinking' decried by pub landlords and UK politicians

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American flown to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter Antarctic rescue mission

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As blackouts stretch for days, life in Cuba revolves around small bursts of electricity

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One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid

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Student kills at least 7 people at a high school and a home outside Bangkok, officials say

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A Russian retail giant's warehouse burns after Ukraine's latest long-range drone attack

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How the Iran-backed Houthis' claims of deadly attacks are stoking fears of a wider regional conflict

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A deal with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz may require a compromise from Trump

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Today in History: August 7, Love Canal environmental disaster declared a federal health emergency

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More than a decade after 43 students vanished in Mexico, ex-governor arrested, accused of cover-up

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Romania rushes to sink 4 barges in the Danube to keep a nuclear power plant's second reactor running

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Why Mexican avocado exports to the US have once again been stopped

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South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash

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Toronto police arrest 2 in July shooting at US Consulate, cite gun-for-hire network

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This African city thought cable cars could fix its traffic gridlock. It was wrong

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China can't get enough of this smelly fruit as farmers fight extreme weather to feed the craving

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How to use your smartphone to capture the August total solar eclipse over Europe

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Rights groups accuse Israel of targeting and killing Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil

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US asks Philippines to extradite Filipino church leader accused of sex crimes and fraud

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Climate change created conditions for Canada fires, scientists say, as Trump blames mismanagement

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Ukraine strikes more oil facilities deep inside Russia, Zelenskyy says

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US suspends avocado inspections in Mexican state of Michoacan due to threat

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Rights group warns Israel's policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

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2 soldiers killed in Lebanon in the first Israeli deaths since June truce with Hezbollah

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