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IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2018-07-18 08:25]

UK's May facing key votes over Brexit

[2018-07-17 06:55]

The next few days will be crucial for British Prime Minister Theresa May and her plans for how the United Kingdom should interact with the European Union after it leaves the bloc.

Five EU countries to take in stranded migrants, Italy says

[2018-07-17 06:55]

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Sunday said five European countries had agreed to take in 250 of the 450 migrants aboard two EU border agency vessels.

Indonesia invites Moon, Kim to Asian Games

[2018-07-17 06:55]

JAKARTA - The leaders of the two countries on the Korean Peninsula have been invited to next month's Asian Games in Indonesia, Jakarta said on Monday, after the neighbors agreed to field several joint teams at the event.

La Paz's cable cars bring lift to commuters

[2018-07-17 06:55]

LA PAZ, Bolivia - "Now I'm going to get to work faster!" said a smiling Rosa Lima, 52, one of the first passengers on a new cable car line in La Paz that reaches into the heart of the city.

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[2018-07-17 06:55]

Cease-fire holds after day of intense Gaza fighting

[2018-07-16 07:26]

GAZA - Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movements announced on Saturday night that the efforts to reach an agreement with Israel on getting back to calm and end an escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip "had succeeded".

Haiti's prime minister resigns amid fuel subsidies row

[2018-07-16 07:26]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday as he faced a no-confidence vote after a move to lower fuel subsidies prompted days of violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Italy: France, Malta offer to take quarter of 450 migrants

[2018-07-16 07:26]

ROME - France and Malta have agreed to take 50 migrants each out of 450 stranded at sea on two EU border agency vessels, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday after pressing his European peers to keep their promise to share the burden.

Norway to increase defense spending

[2018-07-16 07:26]

OSLO - Norway on Saturday reconfirmed its commitment to gradually increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during a visit by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis to the Nordic country.

Rouhani says US isolated on Iran sanctions and will 'fail'

[2018-07-16 07:26]

TEHERAN - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the US hostilities toward the Islamic republic will fail.

Trump immigration remarks draw ire

[2018-07-16 07:26]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's lament this week that immigration is "changing the culture" of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the US are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the white majority uncomfortable.

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