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In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder
The twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen's north, their collar bones and ribs visible. They cried loudly, twisting as if in pain, not from disease but from the hunger gnawing away at them.
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Greece: 2 private clinics appropriated to treat COVID-19
Greek authorities are taking over two private health clinics in the northern city of Thessaloniki as the region's public hospitals struggle to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases, the country's Health Ministry said Friday.
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APEC leaders, including Trump, agree on free trade
Leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, including U.S. President Donald Trump, pledged Friday to work toward free, open and non-discriminatory trade and investment to revive their coronavirus-battered economies.
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Asia Today: Australia's Victoria hits 3 weeks without virus
Australia's once hard-hit state of Victoria has gone three weeks without a new COVID-19 case for the first time since February.
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South African police use tear gas on protest over race
South African police used tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons on hundreds of mainly Black protesters who gathered again Friday outside a high school in a predominantly white neighborhood that's become a flashpoint for racial tensions.
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16 Albanians charged with murder over earthquake deaths
Albanian prosecutors indicted 16 investors, construction experts and local officials Friday on murder and other charges resulting from fatal building collapses after an earthquake a year ago.
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Azerbaijani leader hails handover of region ceded by Armenia
Azerbaijani forces entered the war-ravaged ghost town of Aghdam on Friday, regaining a once-beloved city over a quarter of a century after being driven out by Armenian forces.
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate 73rd anniversary
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary Friday, and for the occasion the royal couple have released a photograph of themselves opening a card from three of their great-grandchildren.
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Muslim teen shoots and kills minority Ahmadi man in Pakistan
A sixteen-year-old Muslim youth opened fire on Friday and killed a member of Pakistan's minority Ahmadi community in eastern Punjab province, police and the community's spokesman said.
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Human remains found in a southern Serbian mine
The European Union's mission to ensure the rule of law in Kosovo said Friday that human remains that appear to be a mass grave of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo have been found in a disused coal mine in southern Serbia.
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Prosecutors: evidence of 'cannibalism' in Berlin man killing
German prosecutors said Friday there is evidence of "cannibalism" in the killing of a 44-year-old man whose remains were found on the northern edge of Berlin earlier this month.
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EU gives upbeat assessment of state of Brexit trade talks
The European Union on Friday issued one of its most upbeat assessments of the state of post-Brexit trade negotiations, as the talks face an ever tighter deadline for a deal to enter into force for the start of the new year.
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India virus cases pass 9M; capital's hospitals under strain
Intensive care wards in New Delhi's hospitals are nearly at capacity, and the city's main crematorium is packed, as the coronavirus has surged in the Indian capital and the country hit a grim milestone Friday, recording 9 million infections.
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UK police release man arrested over 1974 pub bombings
Police have released a man arrested earlier this week in Northern Ireland in connection with the deaths of 21 people in a pair of pub bombings in the central England city of Birmingham in 1974.
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Explosion at gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai causes fire
An explosion at a natural gas pipeline in Egypt's restive northern Sinai Peninsula caused a fire but little other damage and there were no casualties, a senior military official said.
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Death toll at 37 in Uganda unrest after Bobi Wine's arrest
The death toll from protests over the arrest of Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine has risen to 37, police said Friday. This is the country's worst unrest in a decade, and more is expected ahead of the election early next year.
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Burkina Faso to vote amid escalating violence
Burkina Faso will vote in presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, amid escalating extremist violence that's killed more than 2,000 people this year and displaced some one million people from their homes.
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Zimbabwe judge ends detention for investigative journalist
A Zimbabwean judge on Friday ended the 17-day detention of an investigative journalist charged for tweeting about alleged corruption.
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China FM to visit Japan to discuss virus, regional concerns
Japan's foreign minister announced Friday that his Chinese counterpart will visit Tokyo next week to discuss ways to revive their pandemic-hit economies as well as regional concerns over China's growing influence.
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Global tech giants threaten to leave Pakistan over new rules
Internet and technology companies have threatened to leave Pakistan after the government granted blanket powers to authorities to censor digital content, a move critics say was aimed at curtailing freedom of expression in the conservative Islamic nation.
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