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  • Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a “serial killer” who should be forced out of office, one of his chief critics said on Tuesday, as she faced arrest on drug charges which she insisted were…

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  • Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six people, police said.

    A spokesperson for the Pakistan Taliban Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction claimed the…

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  • French investigators probing an alleged fake jobs scam by the far-right National Front (FN) raided the group’s headquarters outside Paris on Monday, the party said.

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  • Libya’s Red Crescent has said 74 bodies of refugees have washed ashore in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea.

    Mohammed al-Misrati, the aid organization’s spokesman, told AP…

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  • Four US citizens and an Australian pilot have died after their light plane crashed into a shopping center in Melbourne, Australia. The charter flight appeared to have had a “catastrophic engine…

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  • Tributes poured in Monday for Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations who died suddenly in New York. He was remembered for his intellect, wit and the pride he took in serving…

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  • Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the US to challenge Donald Trump in a Presidents’ Day protest dubbed “Not My President’s Day”.

    The protests on the federal holiday did…

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  • European Union President Donald Tusk said NATO is not obsolete, following his meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence in Brussels, Belgium, contradicting the bleak views regarding the alliance…

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  • Martin Schulz wants to undo labor market reforms credited with fixing the German economy in a bid to make peace with the trade unions.

    Appearing at one of his first campaign rallies since…

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  • A trial of almost 50 suspects accused of plotting to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the botched July 15 coup opened Monday in southern Turkey. Forty-four suspects—mainly…

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  • Malaysia has summoned the North Korean ambassador over his accusation that it was conspiring with “hostile forces” as it investigates the murder of leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother.

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  • Leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno was within striking distance of winning the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election on Monday, as the Andean country’s electoral body counted…

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  • US Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Iraqis the United States has no plans to take the country’s oil during an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Monday morning, despite President Donald Trump…

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  • A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the United Nations report that 100,000 people are facing…

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  • Upon arrival in Brussels on Sunday, US Vice President Mike Pence said he looked “very much forward” to his meetings with EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, European Council President…

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  • British attempts to “blackmail and divide” EU countries in the runup to Brexit negotiations will lead to a disastrous “crash-landing” out of the bloc, European politicians said.

    They also…

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  • Iraqi government forces are targeting Mosul airport as they launch a long-awaited offensive to retake the western part of the city, the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s last major…

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  • At least 14 people were killed when a car packed with explosives blew up near a busy intersection in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said.

    According to a security…

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  • Tony Blair wants fellow Britons to “rise up” and block or soften Brexit, but it may now be out of their hands as many Europeans just want them to get on and get out.

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  • Ecuadorians are voting in the first round of elections to choose a new president. Leftwing incumbent Rafael Correa is standing down after leading the country for a decade, BBC reported.

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  • Suspected Russian cyberattacks on the French presidential campaign are “unacceptable”, France’s foreign minister said on Sunday, adding it was clear that pro-Europe candidate Emmanuel Macron was…

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  • Turkey’s prime minister drew criticism on Saturday for holding a rally in Germany urging Turks there to support a referendum that would expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.

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  • Senator John McCain, defending the media against the latest attack by President Donald Trump, warned that suppressing the free press was “how dictators get started”.

    The Arizona Republican…

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  • Malaysia’s police are looking for four more North Korean suspects who they say left the country the same day the North Korean leader’s brother died after being attacked at the Kuala Lumpur airport…

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  • Thirteen people have been arrested and two police officers were slightly injured following a protest in Paris against police violence. Rallies have taken place around France following the alleged…

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