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Canadian wildfire evacuees monitor situation, while some restrictions lifted

Thousands of people in Canada remain on evacuation orders as hundreds of fires burn across the country.Many evacuees continue to wait and monitor the news for updates o

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Wagner chief presumed dead in plane crash near Moscow

Wagner Group private military company's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was presumed dead on Wednesday in a plane crash in the Tver Region near Moscow.According to the list re

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Trump plans to turn himself in on Thursday over Georgia indictment

Former President Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed in Atlanta on Thursday in connection with his indictment in Georgia, he said on social media on

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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean despite protests and concerns

Japan will start releasing more than 1 million tonnes of treated radioactive water into the ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on August 24, said Prim

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Pheu Thai Party's Srettha Thavisin elected as new Thai PM

Srettha Thavisin from the Pheu Thai Party was elected as the new prime minister of Thailand on Tuesday after winning a simple majority in a parliamentary vote.Srettha w

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Thailand's Pheu Thai to announce backing of 14 parties in bid to form new government

Thailand's Pheu Thai Party will announce later on Monday it has the backing of 14 parties in its bid to form the next government, its deputy leader said, ahead of this

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Thai court jails ex-PM Thaksin for 8 years as he returns from exile

Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for eight years, as he returned to the country after going into self-imposed exile i

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Japan to begin dumping Fukushima nuclear wastewater on August 24

Japan will begin discharging the nuclear-contaminated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea on August 24, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio

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Singaporean PM says recent political scandals will not delay leadership renewal

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday stressed that the country's leadership renewal plan is on track and recent scandals involving political figures wil

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Russia's Luna-25 has smashed into the moon

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it spun into uncontrolled orbit, Russia's space corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday.The space agency said it lo

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Bernardo Arevalo wins Guatemala's presidential election

Bernardo Arevalo has won Guatemala's presidential election, according to a count by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Sunday evening.With 95 percent of ballots counted,

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Moscow says four Russian regions attacked by Ukrainian drones

Russia said Ukrainian drones had attacked four separate regions in a flurry of attempted strikes on Sunday, injuring five people and forcing two of Moscow's airports to

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Iran summons Swedish and Danish envoys over Quran desecrations

Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Swedish and Danish charges d'affaires in Tehran over the recurrent Quran "desecration" in the two Nordic countries, the semi-of

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Cementing U.S.-Japan-ROK security ties a long way to go: expert

The leaders of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) met at Camp David on Friday, inaugurating what they call "a new era of trilateral partnership."T

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ECOWAS says 'we are going into Niger' if all else fails

The West African bloc ECOWAS stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs wh

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ECOWAS delegation meets ousted Niger president, junta leader

A delegation from West Africa's main regional bloc ECOWAS on Saturday met Niger's ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and held talks with junta leader General Abdourahmane

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Death toll from U.S. Hawaii wildfires rises to 114

The death toll from the Maui wildfires in the U.S. state of Hawaii reached 114 on Friday while more than 60 percent of the disaster area has been searched, authorities