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Australia repatriating 8 youth from Islamic State families

Published on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:00am

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eight Australian offspring of two slain Islamic State group fighters had been removed from Syria in Australia’s first organized repatriation from the conflict zone, Australia’s prime

Alerts issued in France as intense heat wave hits continental Europe

Published on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:00am

PARIS (AP) — The sunset had an orange glow and so does the new heat alert level for Paris. More than half of France, including around Paris, was placed on

Protesters block Hong Kong building access

Published on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:00am

HONG KONG (AP) — Protesters fearing an erosion of Hong Kong’s legal autonomy blocked access to a government office building for nearly two hours Monday and plan more demonstrations to

Pompeo in talks on building a coalition against Iran

Published on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:00am

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat

President Trump calls off Iranian strikes, citing likely deaths

Published on Fri, 06/21/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. was “cocked and loaded” to retaliate against Iran for downing an unmanned American surveillance drone but he canceled the strikes

Estonian wolf ‘probably’ shot

Published on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:00am

HELSINKI (AP) — A wolf that captured international attention earlier this year after being rescued from an icy Estonian river by construction workers may have been killed, authorities said.
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In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

Published on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:00am

ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese authorities are making their most aggressive campaign yet for Syrian refugees to return home and are taking action to ensure they can’t put down roots.

Canada reapproves contentious Pacific coast pipeline

Published on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:00am

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again approved the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would nearly triple the flow of oil from the Alberta oil

WOLVES IN EUROPE

Published on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:00am

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Wolves are officially back in the Netherlands, two centuries after the animals were hunted to extinction in the country, after a pair produced a litter

4 charged in downing of Malaysian airliner

Published on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 12:00am

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) — International prosecutors announced murder charges Wednesday against four men — three of them Russians with military or intelligence backgrounds — in the missile attack that blew