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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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Canada is bolstering its defense industry as US relations fray. A boom is on for local contractors

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Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas

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Russia bombards Kyiv and other cities in onslaught testing Ukraine's defenses

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Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies as a prisoner at 84

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Iran scrambles to sustain trade as US threatens to sanction countries that refuse to break ties

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Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing

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Regional powers seek off-ramp from Iran war, and other Middle East developments

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Today in History: August 27, Barack Obama becomes first Black presidential nominee by a major political party

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Ukraine's president coos over a puppy, starting a new volley in his war of visuals against Russia

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Reporter spends the night locked inside Jerusalem's holiest church with clergy and pilgrims

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The epic La Tomatina food fight drew foreigners to paint a small Spanish town red

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Sanctioned international court president says she asked Japan to help de-escalate tensions with US

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Inquest opens into death of ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday

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A Wildberries depot in Russia is destroyed as Ukraine extends its drone campaign

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Zelenskyy gives award to Elon Musk for Starlink's role in Ukraine

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Floods caused by a glacial collapse kill at least 160 people on Nepal-China border, hundreds missing

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Prince Harry and wife Meghan arrive in the UK as they make a fresh start in Britain

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Iran warns of military ship ban in Hormuz under potential deal with Oman, and other Middle East news

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A tornado tears through a village in southern France, wrecking 300 homes

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US issues security alert in Mexican border city and suspends consular activities

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King Charles wants to see his sons reconcile in Great Britain: report

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Iran's gas lines are growing, but there's no sign so far that its leaders will bow to US sanctions

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More than 50 kidnapped after violent gang attack in Haiti leaves 47 dead

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UN and Red Cross step up call for international rules on 'killer robot' weapons systems

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A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable

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Putin decree lets Russia take control of infrastructure damaged in Ukrainian drone attacks

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Iran and Oman hold talks on managing the Strait of Hormuz and other news from around the Middle East

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Today in History: August 25, singer Aaliyah killed in plane crash

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Today in History: August 26, Jaycee Dugard found alive after 18 years

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Mexico resumes limited cattle exports to US after screwworm pause, relieving ranchers

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Prince Harry steps away from African charity plagued by abuse charges

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Taiwan charges 9 over illegal AI server exports to China, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff

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Strikes in Gaza kill 4, including 2 children, a week after US asked Israel to curb attacks

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Colombia's armed groups recruit children and train them in drone warfare, rights group says

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Britain tells TikTok and other platforms to remove videos glorifying dangerous driving after deaths

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Denmark's prime minister blasts unsolicited beauty advice from plastic surgeon on Instagram

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Prince Harry to leave board of African Parks conservation nonprofit

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Ukraine's amputee veterans celebrate Independence Day with grueling endurance challenge

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Canada to announce retaliatory tariffs as Trump tells its leaders to 'fall in line'

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European leaders mark Ukraine's 35th Independence Day as Russian invasion pushes on

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Congo's Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

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US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months

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Iran warns of a harsh as US announces new sanctions and other Middle East news

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Today in History: August 24, Pluto demoted to dwarf planet

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Today in History: August 23, former priest, convicted child molester dies in prison attack

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Today in History: August 22, helicopter crash in Iraq kills 14 US soldiers

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An 18-year-old with a sword attacks a school in Sweden, leaving 1 dead

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Uber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accounts

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A donkey jumps into a van while on the loose, kicking and biting, injuring 3 people in Germany

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Russian drones kill 15 people at a shopping mall in a central Ukrainian city, officials say

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Israel will investigate Hind Rajab's killing. Her mother wants more

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Hungary drained its waters for generations. Now drought is exposing the cost

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Here's data that shows Congo's Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass history's largest

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Cuba says US sanctions are blocking its efforts to open the economy to private investment

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Iranian families struggle to afford the basics as US ratchets up economic warfare

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US, South Korean militaries wrap up drill early, a day after North Korea's missile barrage

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2 organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case

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Settlers kill a Palestinian teen in a West Bank clash, and other Middle East developments

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Trump warns of 'economic D-Day' against Iran, but Tehran is well acquainted with sanctions

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Prince Harry and 6 others must pay initial $13 million over failed invasion of privacy case

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Today in History: August 21, Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. assassinated

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