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A Palestinian baby died from hypothermia on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, underscoring the grim humanitarian conditions in the territory as world leaders were gathering at a Swiss resort where U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan is high on the agenda.
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Colombia says former FARC rebels have not kept promises to surrender cash and gold
The former rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is violating a 2016 peace deal with the Colombian government by failing to relinquish gold, land and other assets to fund reparations for the group's victims, officials said Tuesday.
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Photos from the annual World Economic Forum in Davos
The World Economic Forum think tank opened its four-day annual meeting in the Swiss town of Davos on Tuesday where political leaders and business leaders will discuss issues ranging from economic disparity to climate change to world conflicts. This year's geopolitical context — with the recent U.S. military strike in Venezuela,protests in Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to take Greenland — have provided a tense backdrop and sparked protests. Read the AP story on What to Know.
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Gunmen kill 31 villagers in western Niger, student groups and a resident say
Gunmen attacked a village in western Niger over the weekend, leaving at least 31 people dead, student organizations and a resident said Tuesday.
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A look at Trump's Board of Peace and who has been invited
The Board of Peace led by U.S. President Donald Trump was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan. The Trump administration's ambitions have ballooned into a more sprawling concept, with Trump extending invitations to dozens of nations and hinting it will soon broker global conflicts, like a pseudo-U.N. Security Council.
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Nigerian police deny church attacks as residents insist 168 people are held by armed groups
Nigerian police denied reports of simultaneous church attacks in northwestern Kaduna state over the weekend, even as residents shared accounts of kidnappings at the churches in interviews Tuesday.
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Under fire in Haiti: Veteran AP cameraman tells the story
Veteran Associated Press videographer Pierre-Richard Luxama was filming a tactical police unit patrolling Haiti's capital Monday when some of the gang members who control almost the entire city attacked.
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Israel's settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month
Celebratory music blasting from loudspeakers mixed with the sounds of construction, almost drowning out calls to prayer from a mosque in the Palestinian town across this West Bank valley.
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Spain's high-speed train crash casts a shadow over a world-class rail system
The deadly train wreck in southern Spain has cast a pall over one of the nation's symbols of success.
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Families of Venezuelan prisoners demand their release after weeks of waiting outside prisons
Families of Venezuelan prisoners on Tuesday demanded the release of nearly 800 imprisoned critics, journalists and members of the opposition still detained in the South American nation.
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