US lawmakers meet with Dalai Lama in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China
DHARAMSHALA, India (news agencies) — A bipartisan United States congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama on Wednesday at his ...
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Deaths, drownings and destruction as heavy rains move through Central America. 3 killed in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (news agencies) — Three men drowned in Guatemala when two of them tried to help another who had ...
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Kim and Putin meet in Pyongyang as worries are raised about North Korea’s and Russia’s military ties
SEOUL, South Korea (news agencies) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Wednesday in ...
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Stock market today: Global stocks are mixed after Wall Street edges to more records
HONG KONG (news agencies) — World stocks were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. benchmarks ticked to more records following the ...
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US approves new $360 million arms sale to Taiwan for drones, related equipment
WASHINGTON (news agencies) — The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the ...
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Attorneys for Baltimore seek to keep crew members from bridge collapse ship from returning home
Baltimore (news agencies) — Attorneys are asking a federal judge to prevent crew members on the cargo ship Dali from ...
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With election looming, UK’s governing Conservatives seize on inflation fall to 2% target
LONDON (news agencies) — Inflation in the U.K. returned to the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% for the ...
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Dutch leader Mark Rutte clears a big hurdle to becoming NATO chief after Hungary lifts objections
BRUSSELS (news agencies) — Hungary on Tuesday lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO after ...
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Ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in fatal assault sinks in Red Sea in second-such sinking
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (news agencies) — A bulk carrier sank days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels believed ...
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Religious and cultural mentions removed from names of China’s Xinjiang villages, rights groups say
TAIPEI, Taiwan (news agencies) — Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited ...
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