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Afghan officials: Flash flood kills at least 30 villagers
KABUL - At least 30 Afghan villagers searching for gold in a riverbed perished on Sunday in a flash flood in northeastern Badakhshan province, provincial officials said. Along with those killed, dozen...
Jan 06, 2019
Malaysia's king abdicates in unexpected and rare move
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian King Sultan Muhammad V abdicated on Sunday in an unexpected move, after just two years on the throne. The palace said in a statement that the 49-year-old ruler had r...
Jan 06, 2019
Quebec City consumed by debate over new span across the St. Lawrence
MONTREAL - In car-loving Quebec City, residents can’t stop talking about what’s become known as the “third link” - a future bridge or tunnel crossing the St. Lawrence River. Ne...
Jan 06, 2019
Africa is divided over ivory trade ahead of wildlife meeting
JOHANNESBURG - Several African countries with some of the world’s largest elephant populations will push this year for looser controls on legal ivory trade, while another group of countries on t...
Jan 06, 2019
Egyptian policeman killed while defusing bomb outside church
CAIRO - Egypt’s Interior Ministry said a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse an explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast late on Sa...
Jan 06, 2019
UK leader May: Brexit critics risk damaging UK democracy
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that a delayed vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal will “definitely” go ahead later this month, as she promised to set out measure...
Jan 06, 2019
Reports: 2 British soldiers wounded in IS attack in Syria
BEIRUT - A missile attack by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least one Kurdish fighter and wounded two British soldiers embedded with them, according to reports Sunday, amid fierce ...
Jan 06, 2019
Cardinal on trial in France's biggest church sex abuse trial
LYON, France - A Catholic cardinal and five other people went on trial Monday accused of covering up for a pedophile priest who abused Boy Scouts - France’s most important church sex abuse case ...
Jan 06, 2019
Man charged, detained in Poland escape room game deaths
WARSAW, Poland - Prosecutors in northern Poland detained and brought charges Sunday against the man who designed an escape room entertainment site where five teenage girls were killed in a fire. The m...
Jan 06, 2019
Brother questions why American man being held by Russia
MOSCOW - The brother of an American man being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying is raising the possibility that his sibling is being used as a pawn in a potential exchange for a Russian woman behi...
Jan 06, 2019