Japan’s parliament has enacted a $21 billion extra budget to tackle soaring fuel and food prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The extra budget is for the current fiscal year that started …
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5/31/22
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Aleksandar Vucic has been sworn in for his second 5-yar term as Serbia’s president, pledging to keep the Balkan country on its European Union membership path and hinting that a new government might …
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By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
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5/31/22
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Tonga on Tuesday as he continued his regional island-hopping tour a day after failing to ink an ambitious deal with 10 South Pacific nations. Wang fell …
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By NICK PERRY
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5/31/22
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ankara’s planned military operation in northern Syria and the war in Ukraine with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. In recent days Erdogan has said …
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5/30/22
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Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox in 2022 while Congo has confirmed nine deaths and 465 cases this year. The chief of the Sankuru health division in Congo said Monday that the …
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By CHINEDU ASADU and JEAN-YVES KAMALE
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5/30/22
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An aging Japanese militant who spent more than a decade in an Israeli prison for his part in a deadly attack on the airport outside Tel Aviv showed up in Beirut at an event commemorating the 50th …
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By BASSEM MROUE
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5/30/22
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has defended an annual march that celebrated Israel’s takeover of east Jerusalem and was marked by violence and anti-Palestinian racism. Authorities called up …
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By JOSEPH KRAUSS
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5/30/22
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The French news broadcaster BFM TV says a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in Ukraine. It says the journalist was fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation …
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5/30/22
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The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns …
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By MARIA CHENG
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5/30/22
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German police have recorded a significant increase of depictions of sexual abuse against children last year compared to the year before. The country’s top criminal police official said Monday that …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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5/30/22
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Asian stocks are higher after Wall Street rebounded from a seven-week string of declines and China eased anti-virus curbs on business activity in Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and …
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By JOE McDONALD
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5/30/22
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Nepal's army says the wreckage of a plane missing since Sunday in the mountains was located Monday. There was no word on survivors among the 22 people aboard. The army posted on Twitter an aerial …
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
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5/29/22
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Police in Nepal say a small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route is missing in the mountains shortly after takeoff. The Tara Air plane, which was on a 15-minute …
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
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5/29/22
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A far-right Israeli lawmaker, joined by scores of ultranationalist supporters, has entered Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early Sunday, prompting a crowd of Palestinians to begin throwing …
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5/29/22
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Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 25 people who are missing after a cargo boat sank in the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province. A total of 42 people were on the boat when it sank in bad …
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5/29/22
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Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 29 people in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil on Saturday. Authorities say that in Alagoas, another state in the region, two people died …
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By DÉBORA ÁLVARES
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5/28/22
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Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan. That's according to …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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5/28/22
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Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and a church of Scotland prelate will together lead a prayer vigil for peace while visiting South Sudan next month. The Vatican on Saturday released details …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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5/28/22
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a once-powerful Italian prelate who long served as the Vatican's No. 2 official, has died. He was 94. Pope Francis in a condolence telegram Saturday to the retired prelate's …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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5/28/22
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Albania says former President Bujar Nishani has died at 55 following a serious health problem. President Ilir Meta wrote on Facebook that he had learned “with sadness and deep regret that President …
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By LLAZAR SEMINI
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5/28/22
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