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Trump, top officials defend response to Russia bounty threat

Criticized for inaction, President Donald Trump and top officials on Wednesday stepped up their defense of the administration’s response to intelligence assessments tha

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Trump faces pressure over Russia bounties to kill US troops

President Donald Trump on Tuesday came under growing pressure to respond to allegations that Russia offered bounties for killing American troops in Afghanistan, with De

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Taliban say Afghan peace effort figured in video talks with Pompeo

The head of the Taliban's political office in Doha and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video conference to discuss the Afghan peace process, the Islamist group said on Tuesday, in a bid to

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APD | Indians in China face hostility from homeland

By APD writer AliceWhen tensions erupted at the border, Indians in China have become targets of criticism on social networks.Thousands of Indian software experts, garme

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Global deaths top 500,000, Macron/Merkel talks: COVID-19 bulletin

TOP HEADLINES- European Union governments willseek a deal on a recommended travel list for the bloc on Monday, asEurope readies itself to lift borderrestrictions for the first time in almost four mon

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One-year-old boy killed in Chicago drive-by shooting

A drive-by shooting caused the death of a one-year-old boy here on Saturday afternoon, and wounded his mother, local media reported. The tragedy occurred when the 22-y

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Mexico City police chief shot in assassination attempt, 3 others died

00:43 Mexico City's chief of police was shot and two of his bodyguards killed in a dramatic assassination attempt early on Friday that he quickly blamed on one of Mexico's most powerfu

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UK police: Park stabbing that killed 3 was a terror attack

A stabbing rampage in Britain that killed three people as they sat in a park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack, British police said Sunday as a

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One dead, 11 wounded in shooting in U.S. city of Minneapolis

One man was killed and 11 people were wounded in a shooting in the northern U.S. city of Minneapolis, local police said Sunday. Minneapolis police tweeted that "12 peo

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Urgent: 5 killed in Taliban attack on police station in N. Afghanistan

Three police officers and two Taliban militants were killed and 16 people wounded in a Taliban attack on a district police station in Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan Saturday night, a loca

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U.S. reaches troops reduction target of 8,600 in Afghanistan: U.S. general

File photo taken on July 11, 2018 shows the Pentagon seen from an airplane over Washington, D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)The agreement also called for the f

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Urgent: 5 army soldiers killed in predawn clashes in N. Afghanistan

Five Afghan soldiers and four militants were killed and six army soldiers wounded after Taliban militants attacked a military camp in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz early Wednesday, an arm

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Death toll rises to 19 in east China tank truck blast

The death toll from a tank truck blast in east China has risen to 19 and the number of the injured grew to 172, of which 24 are severely wounded, local authorities said

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Over 100 arrests after violent clashes at far-right linked UK protest

00:35 Thousands of protesters countering the anti-racism demonstrations assembled in and around Parliament Square in London, despite the coronavirus restriction orders. The local polic

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Zoom disables accounts of Chinese dissidents

Questions have been raised about Beijing's ability to censor Zoom after it targeted pro-democracy activists with suspensions.

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In Minneapolis, rage over George Floyd extends beyond cops

To truly understand the rage people in this city felt as they watched a video of George Floyd begging, gasping and slowly succumbing beneath the weight of a police offi

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When should the shooting start?

06:26 Since the 2014 Occupy Central movement, the reputation of Hong Kong police has fallen sharply from "Asia's finest" to "riot police," as the shadow of police brutality haunts the