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Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Chinese social media giant WeChat shuts LGBT accounts
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — China's most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling … more
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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2020 file photo, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti is bracing for a fresh round of widespread protests starting Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, with opposition leaders demanding that President Moise step down next month, worried he is amassing too much power as he enters his second year of rule by decree. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in their home early Wednesday, inflicting more chaos on the unstable Caribbean country … more
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The Antonov An-26 with the same board number #RA-26085 as the missed plane is parked at Airport Elizovo outside Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020.Local officials say a plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka. Emergency officials say the Antonov An-26 plane with 22 passengers and six crew members missed a scheduled communication while it was flying Tuesday from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana. (AP Photo/Marina Lystseva)
Plane apparently crashes in Russia; 28 aboard feared dead
MOSCOW (AP) — A plane carrying 28 people apparently crashed as it came in for a landing in bad weather Tuesday in Russia's Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the … more
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Israeli Arab women hold a sign during a protest ahead of a vote by Israel's parliament on renewing a law that bars Arab citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, outside the parliament building in Jerusalem, Monday, July 5, 2021. Israel's new government faces an early challenge in deciding whether to renew the temporary law first enacted in 2003. Critics say it's a racist measure aimed at limiting the growth of the Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security reasons and to preserve Israel's Jewish character. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israel blocks law that keeps out Palestinian spouses
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's parliament early on Tuesday failed to renew a law that bars Arab citizens from extending citizenship or residency rights to spouses from the occupied West Bank and … more
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A nun walks outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Tuesday, July 6, 2021, where Pope Francis was hospitalized Sunday. Pope Francis ate breakfast Tuesday, read the newspapers and took a walk as he continued recovering from intestinal surgery, the Vatican said, declaring his post-operative checks to be “good” and normal. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis eats breakfast, takes walk 2 days after surgery
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ate breakfast, read the newspapers and took a walk Tuesday as he continued recovering from intestinal surgery, the Vatican said. A statement from the Vatican … more
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Senior Superintendent Li Kwai-wah, Hong Kong Police National Security Department, left, and senior bomb disposal officer Alick McWhirter, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau, pose in front of the confiscated evidence during a news conference as nine people were arrested over the alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong, at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 6, 2021.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
6 students among 9 arrested in alleged Hong Kong bomb plot
HONG KONG (AP) — Nine people, including six secondary school students, were arrested in Hong Kong on Tuesday for allegedly plotting to set off homemade bombs in courts, tunnels and trash cans … more
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A woman wearing face a mask walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Global shares fall after stalemate in OPEC talks, US holiday
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower Tuesday as oil prices surged after a meeting of oil producing nations was postponed, with little else guiding trading after the U.S. Independence … more
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A general view shows the U.S. Embassy in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 3, 2021. Long before the last U.S. and NATO troops packed up to leave Afghanistan, American diplomats arriving in the capital Kabul were taken to the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy by helicopter. The short four- mile road trip through Kabul's chaotic traffic was considered too dangerous. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
After troops exit, safety of US Embassy in Kabul top concern
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — As the end to America's "forever war" rapidly approaches, the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Kabul are watching a worsening security situation and … more
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An Afghan army soldier stand guard inside the prison after the American military left Bagram air base, in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 5, 2021. The U.S. left Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years, winding up its "forever war," in the night, without notifying the new Afghan commander until more than two hours after they slipped away. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
US left Afghan airfield at night, didn't tell new commander
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. left Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base's new … more
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Monday July 5, 2021, ahead of the NHS service of commemoration and thanksgiving to mark the 73rd birthday of the NHS. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via AP)
Johnson says UK must live with virus as he announces easing
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to unveil plans Monday to scrap mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing in England in two weeks' time, despite surging … more
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