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October 20, 2018

Latest communal violence in central Nigeria kills 55

Nigeria's government says 55 people have been killed in the latest eruption of communal violence in north-central Kaduna ...

October 20, 2018

Violence, confusion surround Afghan parliamentary elections

Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years suffered from violence and chaos Saturday, with a multitude of ...

October 20, 2018

The Latest: Germany reassessing arms sales to Saudi Arabia

The Latest on the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who vanished after entering the Saudi ...

October 20, 2018

Former Dutch PM Wim Kok dies at 80, haunted by Srebrenica

Former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, a trade unionist-turned-politician who inspired a new breed of pragmatic Social ...

October 20, 2018

The Latest: Suicide blast kills 3 at Afghan polling station

The Latest on parliamentary elections in Afghanistan (all times local): 6:05 p.m. Police say a suicide bomber blew himself ...

October 20, 2018

IS frees 6 hostages in exchange with Syrian government

The Islamic State group early Saturday released two women and four children they had been holding since July in the first ...

October 20, 2018

The Latest: Group: Malta finally allows rescue ship to leave

The Latest on migration issues in Europe (all times local): 3:55 p.m. A humanitarian group says its migrant rescue ship has ...

October 20, 2018

Ex-India state official: Most train victims migrant workers

Most of the casualties in a train disaster that killed dozens of people in northern India were migrant workers, a former ...

October 20, 2018

Australia's ruling coalition forced into minority government

Australia's ruling coalition was forced into minority government on Saturday after a massive swing against its senior ...

October 20, 2018

3 charged in southern France extremist attack

Three people have been charged in France over an Islamic extremist's shooting rampage and supermarket hostage-taking earlier ...

October 20, 2018

Rights groups warn Ethiopia against return to repression

Rights groups are calling on Ethiopia's reformist new leader to stop using repressive tactics once favored by the previous ...

October 20, 2018

Cyprus takes in 29 Syrian migrants departing from Lebanon

Cypriot police say most of the 29 Syrian migrants who have arrived to the Mediterranean island after setting sail from ...

October 20, 2018

South Africa highway crash kills at least 27, including kids

South Africa's government says at least 27 people, including small children, have been killed in a multi-vehicle accident in ...

October 20, 2018

Africa's youngest billionaire free 9 days after abduction

The man described as Africa's youngest billionaire said Saturday he is free more than a week after his abduction from a ...

October 20, 2018

Saudis blame 'fistfight' for Jamal Khashoggi's death

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a "fistfight" in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the kingdom claimed early ...

October 20, 2018

Dems struggle with Trump's approach to culture war

More than seven years after President Donald Trump launched his political career by questioning then-President Barack Obama's ...

October 20, 2018

The Jamal Khashoggi I knew: mentor, bridge between cultures

Sitting in my suburban American kitchen, it is easy to feel that Saudi Arabia is a world away, that events at the Saudi ...

October 20, 2018

Housing official caught up in dispute with Interior resigns

A political appointee who was caught up in a dispute between the departments of Interior and Housing and Urban Development ...

October 20, 2018

Playing Trump's game in culture war a losing Dems' strategy

More than seven years after President Donald Trump launched his political career by questioning then-President Barack Obama's ...