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61 people killed as 2 trains crash in east India

The powerful crash between two express trains at a station in eastern India early Monday morning killed 61 people and injured scores more. The force …
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Recovery jitters drag European shares lower

Challenges to economic recovery were reinforced by data showing that U.S. home-builder sentiment fell more-than-expected in July to the lowest level …
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Italian junior minister under pressure over probe

The Italy of Values party said it would call the motion in the Senate against junior Justice Minister Giacomo Caliendo, over what it said was his …
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Cuban dissidents claim they were misled by Spain

The 11 dissidents were released this month by Havana as part of the Castro regime’s commitment to free 52 imprisoned since 2003 under an agreement …
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U.S. cities have HIV epidemics

In a study of rates of HIV across the United States, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that poverty is the …
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Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse elected president

Desi Bouterse’s supporters are cheering and waving flags outside parliament. Lawmakers voted Monday after the former strongman secured the necessary …
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Bouterse chosen as Suriname president by parliament

The parliament made the selection by 36 votes out of 50 after Bouterse, 64, who led a 1990 coup and has faced accusations of drug-trafficking and …
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Reform needed for South Africa economic growth

In its first economic survey of South Africa, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Monday urged the country to implement …
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196 indicted in alleged Turkish coup plot

A 968-page indictment accuses the suspects of planning to create chaos and pave the way for a military takeover in an alleged conspiracy dubbed …
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Three Belfast teenagers, woman in court over riots

The woman, Norma Crowder, denies knowledge of a loaded handgun and ammunition found at her home near the scene of the worst rioting in Ardoyne, …
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Delta posts $467 million profit in the second quarter

The world’s largest airline said Monday its second-quarter net income was $467 million, or 55 cents per share. That reversed a year-ago loss of $257 …
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Hungary under pressure to agree with Monetary Fund

Analysts said the new centre-right government, which has spooked investors before when officials compared Hungary’s problems with those of Greece, …
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Clinton, Gates call for a more efficient fight against AIDS

In separate speeches at an international AIDS conference in the Austrian capital, the former American president railed against spending too much …
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Argentina’s import curbs threaten to bite back

The South American nation, which saw exports rise 25 percent year-on-year in May, responded to the global financial crisis by limiting imports of …
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Greek guerrilla behind journalist’s murder

Sokratis Giolias, 37, was killed outside his home in the Athens suburb of Ilioupoli early on Monday, when three unknown assailants shot him several …
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WWI troops found in mass grave reburied in France

German machine guns and artillery left more than 5,500 Australians and more than 1,500 British killed, wounded or missing in under 24 hours at the …
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U.S. Army unveils a trove of soldiers’ war paintings

"Landing Zone," a somber depiction of the Vietnam War in 1966 by soldier John Wehrle, is among about 300 paintings by U.S. servicemen and women that …
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Air show kicks off with small flurry of orders

The aerospace market "has come back faster than we expected" and Boeing has twice raised its internal forecasts for the number of orders at the …
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