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Heavy monsoon rains lash western India, killing 16
NEW DELHI - At least 16 people have been killed this week in heavy monsoon rains that have lashed western India, including the desert state of Rajasthan, with more than 24,000 villagers evacuated to h...
Jul 25, 2017
Al-Qaida in Syria snuffs out competition in northwest
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels and activists are warning that an al-Qaida-linked jihadi group is on the verge of snuffing out what remains of the country’s uprising in northwestern Syria, after the extr...
Jul 25, 2017
10 white caskets and memories: Funeral honours flood victims
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - To the strains of “Ave Maria,” more than 1,000 people said goodbye Tuesday to 10 members of an extended family who lost their lives in a flash flood while celebrating a...
Jul 25, 2017
Syria activists: Despite truce, strikes near Damascus kill 8
BEIRUT - Airstrikes in a Damascus suburb have killed eight people, including children, the area’s first casualties since Russia said three days ago that it reached an agreement with the Syrian o...
Jul 25, 2017
Pakistan buries more victims from deadly Taliban bombing
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan is burying the last victims from a Taliban suicide bombing the previous day that killed 26 people in the eastern city of Lahore. Hundreds of mourners have attended the fune...
Jul 25, 2017
Thousands join Muslim prayer protests over Jerusalem shrine
JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets near Jerusalem’s most contested holy site Tuesday, heeding a call by clergy to not enter the shrine despite Israel’s seem...
Jul 25, 2017
Australia denies reneging on a UNHCR deal to accept refugees
CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the United Nations refugee agency’s allegation that her government reneged on a deal to resettle some refugees who attem...
Jul 25, 2017
California knocks Trump as it extends climate change effort
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Jerry Brown and his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, stood side by side Tuesday to cheer the extension of one of the most ambitious programs in the U.S. to reduce fossil fuel p...
Jul 25, 2017
EU-Turkey talks fail to ease friction over detentions
BRUSSELS - High-level talks that European Union officials had with Turkey’s foreign minister Tuesday did not appear to ease tensions between the 28-nation bloc and Ankara over a wave of detentio...
Jul 25, 2017
Tokyo to begin seeking names for star giant panda cub
Tokyo is preparing to start collecting ideas later this week for naming a new giant panda cub born at its Ueno zoo. The zoo, Japan’s oldest, has not shown the cub directly to the public. But it ...
Jul 25, 2017
