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Gaza's Hamas rulers calling on Palestinian President Abbas to lift his 'sanctions' on coastal territory

The magazine of the Jesuit order in the United States has withdrawn its endorsement of Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice after Senate testimony by the Jesuit-educated Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

Silvio Berlusconi is back in the soccer business after his family's holding company Fininvest bought Serie C club Monza

Indonesian agency lifts tsunami warning triggered by powerful earthquake in Sulawesi

An exiled Turkish journalist says he won't attend a press conference in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after learning the Turkish leader was considering canceling if he were there

A publicity-savvy activist in Thailand seeking to run in an upcoming election has learned one of the unwritten rules of his country's politics: pirates need not apply

Powerful earthquake rocks central Sulawesi in Indonesia, agency issues tsunami warning

India's top court has rejected pleas by five rights activists that they be freed a month after being arrested for alleged links to Maoist rebels

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Dozens of passengers queued Friday at Ryanair counters in Madrid and hundreds at the airport in Tenerife as at least 64 flights of the low-cost company from or to Spain were cancelled amid a Europe-wide cabin crew strike

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