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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
Riders in the storm: Dutch cyclists brave Storm Ciara
NEELTJE JANS, Netherlands (AP) — Call them riders in the storm.
Ireland to face messy coalition talks after close vote
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish politicians are facing messy talks over the creation of a new government as an exit poll suggests that the parliamentary election ended in a dead heat between the country’s three biggest parties.
Israel blocks Palestinian exports in escalating trade crisis
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military blocked Palestinian agricultural exports on Sunday in the latest escalation of a monthslong trade war that comes amid fears of renewed violence as well.
Soldier kills 26 in bloodiest mass shooting in Thailand
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand's worst mass shooting before he was fatally shot inside a mall in the country's northeast on Sunday, offic…
Indian artists demand end to violence against women
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of artists and activists gathered in India’s capital on Sunday to demand an end to violence against women in a country where such crimes are rising despite tough laws enacted seven years ago.
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Trains, flights, ferries cancelled as high winds batter UK
LONDON (AP) — Trains, flights and ferries have been cancelled and weather warnings issued across the United Kingdom and elsewhere in northern Europe on Sunday as a storm with hurricane-level winds battered the regi…
Pakistan rescues Canadian, Finnish climbers by helicopter
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's military launched a helicopter evacuation of a Canadian and a Finnish mountain climber who were stranded on a peak in the country's north, according to the Alpine Club of Pakis…
Israel blocks Palestinian export in escalating trade crisis
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military blocked Palestinian agricultural exports on Sunday in the latest escalation of a monthslong trade war that comes amid fears of renewed violence as well.
Where did they go? Millions left city before quarantine
SHANGHAI (AP) — For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first wave of China’s g…
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Swiss vote on law against anti-LGBT discrimination
BERLIN (AP) — Swiss voters are delivering their verdict Sunday on a measure that would make it illegal to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation.
Spain confirms 2nd virus case; UK plane brings 200 evacuees
MADRID (AP) — Spain confirmed its second case of the new virus from China, and a plane evacuating more than 200 people from the Chinese city at the center of the epidemic landed Sunday in Britain.
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Surge of violence threatens Cameroon's parliamentary vote
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A surge of violence in Cameroon's English-speaking regions threatens to derail the the West African nation's parliamentary election on Sunday, as militant separatists kidnap scores of candi…