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Police break out tear gas to control crowds clamoring for new Swatch drop

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Prince William to sell 20% of Duchy of Cornwall to fund housing, clean energy

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The Ebola outbreak started weeks ago, officials believe. Here's a timeline of what we know

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A humanitarian aid ship from Mexico docks in Havana as US-Cuba tensions escalate

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Argentina's icy outpost at the end of the world fears the hantavirus will chill tourism

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Ebola and hantavirus have Africa talking 'health sovereignty' as donor support fades

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Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical on May 25

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Lebanon death toll reaches 3,000 in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah

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Greenland's prime minister tells Trump's envoy self-determination cannot be negotiated

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Congo opens more centers to treat rare type of Ebola that has killed more than 110

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Israeli troops intercept flotilla boats trying to breach the blockade of Gaza

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Pop star Shakira is acquitted in a Spanish tax fraud case

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Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection

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Today in History: May 18, only 1 survives Boeing 737 crash near Havana airport

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Barbra Streisand to miss Cannes and Palme d'Or acceptance due to knee injury

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Today in History: May 17, televised Watergate hearings begin

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Israeli strike kills Hamas' military wing leader, who Israel says was an architect of Oct 7 attacks

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Today in History: May 16, Queen Elizabeth addresses US Congress

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Scientists find climate change is reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide

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Belarus authoritarian leader welcomes US evangelist Franklin Graham to hold massive gathering

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Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion and say today's catastrophe is worse

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War worsens Lebanon's economic crisis with job losses, price gouging and slow business

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Iran war energy shock drives interest in ethanol and other biofuels across hard-hit Asia

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What to know about new Ebola outbreak that has killed 65 people in Congo

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6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine

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Kyiv mourns as death toll from Russian attack in the Ukrainian capital rises to 24

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Today in History: May 15, first McDonald's opens in California

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Raul Castro's grandson in Havana, US and Cuban officials say

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New round of Lebanon-Israel talks kicks off as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues

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Over 40% of Sudan's population faces high levels of acute food insecurity, monitoring group warns

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Cuba's power grid collapses and plunges eastern provinces into a major blackout

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After bombs, blackouts and bank restrictions, Gaza's digital workers are still coding

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Ultranationalist Jews chant racist slogans during annual march into Jerusalem's Old City

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Hungary summons Russian ambassador after drone attack in Ukraine

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Activist flotilla leaves Turkey for Gaza weeks after Israel intercepted a previous convoy

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Pope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation

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The world's reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID

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UK health secretary resigns, setting up a potential Labour leadership challenge to Keir Starmer

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Russia hammers Ukraine for a 3rd straight day, flattening a Kyiv apartment block and killing 9

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France allows asymptomatic passengers off new cruise ship struck by stomach bug outbreak

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Tensions flare near Strait of Hormuz as a ship is seized and another is sunk

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Today in History: May 14, Skylab, the first American space station, launches into space

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Remains of 2nd US soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered

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'Ocean Dream' blue-green diamond sells for more than $17 million at Christie's auction in Geneva

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Some Japanese snack packages are turning black-and-white as Iran war depletes ink supply

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France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

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Ancient teeth hint at canoodling between early human relatives

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The European Commission seeks to ban gay 'conversion therapy'

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Princess Catherine arrives in Italy on first solo trip abroad after cancer goes into remission

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Russia fires 800 drones at Ukraine despite recent talk by Putin and Trump of possible peace

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Palestinian man shot dead while climbing West Bank barrier into Israel in search of work

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Brazil's beloved instant payment system faces scrutiny from the Trump administration

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Gunfire breaks out in Philippine Senate where authorities tried to arrest a senator

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Israeli drone strikes on vehicles in Lebanon kill 12 people, including 2 children

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Soaring inflation and plummeting economy test Iran's ability to withstand war and US blockade

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Board of Peace envoy Mladenov says ceasefire hinges on Hamas' disarmament

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Today in History: May 13, Winston Churchill offers his 'blood, toil, tears and sweat' in speech

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Bonnie Tyler 'remains seriously ill but stable' in Portugal

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Nigerian military airstrike kills 100 civilians at a market, rights group says

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Israeli bulldozers raze about 50 Palestinian shops ahead of settlement-linked road project

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Ukraine officials say Zelenskyy's ex-chief of staff is a suspect in a money-laundering probe

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Hezbollah leader urges Lebanon to quit direct talks with Israel

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Shipping industry fears fuel shortages as Iran war squeezes bunker fuel supply

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UK's Starmer defiant as calls for his resignation grow and several ministers quit

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French hantavirus patient is critically ill, on an artificial lung as total cases grow to 11

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Trump and Hegseth claim 'control' over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire talks are stalled

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Today in History: May 12, SS Mayaguez seized by Khmer Rouge soldiers

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Philippine vice president impeached by lawmakers over suspected wealth and threats

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'Total Eclipse of the Heart' singer Bonnie Tyler suffers cardiac arrest: report

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Asia braces for a second wave of energy shocks from the Iran war

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The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

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Pakistan protests to Afghanistan over suicide attack that killed 15 officers

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Ukrainians seeking cultural escape from war's brutality find comfort and resilience at Kyiv art fair

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EU targets Russians with sanctions over the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children

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Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi is transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says

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Russia and Ukraine trade blame for continued fighting as US-brokered ceasefire nears its end

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Trump says Iran ceasefire is on 'life support' and proposes gas tax pause as strait stays closed

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Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

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Today in History: May 11, Bob Marley dies of skin cancer

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Today in History: May 10, Nazis burn books across Germany

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Today in History: May 9, freighter slams into Tampa Bay bridge, killing 35

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Aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, some passengers fear what awaits back home

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Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

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Hungary's incoming prime minister plans a 'regime-change celebration' to mark Orbán's departure

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Trump's tariffs hit Toyota profit, though its global sales grew

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David Attenborough, the excited but hushed voice of nature programs, turns 100

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A year in, what's on Pope Leo XIV's to-do list? And what has he done so far?

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Starmer says he won't quit after local elections deliver losses for Labour and wins for Reform UK

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Pope prays for end to 'fratricidal hatred' as he celebrates anniversary with visit to Pompeii

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What Russia's low‑key Victory Day celebrations reveal about Putin and the war in Ukraine

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Pope Leo XIV sought a pastoral role in his first year, but verbal sparring with Trump intervened

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Japanese video-game maker Nintendo raises Switch price, forecasts lower profits

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What we don't know about the hantavirus outbreak as the cruise ship nears Spanish territory

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Israeli airstrikes kill 5 in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah rockets hit open areas in Israel

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Oil tanker arrives in South Korea after passing through the Strait of Hormuz in mid-April

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Man pleads not guilty to charge of threatening behavior toward ex-Prince Andrew

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Spain readies for evacuations as a hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads for the Canary Islands

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Today in History: May 8, Allies celebrate Nazi surrender in World War II

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Hamas says a son of its chief negotiator was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza

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In Gaza, some Palestinian children find respite and catharsis in breakdancing

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