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[2017-06-29 07:21]

Trump, Modi vow to strengthen ties

[2017-06-28 07:32]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Monday held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House, eyeing a robust partnership despite their growing trade frictions.

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[2017-06-28 07:32]

ROK vice-minister says sorry for THAAD push

[2017-06-28 07:32]

SEOUL - The Republic of Korea's vice-defense minister who was appointed by the new government apologized to residents on Tuesday for the previous administration's push for the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile interception system in their hometown.

'Pay as you like' bookstore saved by online effort

[2017-06-28 07:32]

AMMAN, Jordan - For years, Hamzeh al-Maaytah nurtured a community of book lovers in Jordan, keeping his bookstore in Amman's old center open around the clock, encouraging customers to linger over rare treasures and often allowing them to set the price for a purchase.

Temer formally accused of corruption

[2017-06-28 07:32]

BRASILIA - Brazil's top federal prosecutor charged President Michel Temer on Monday with accepting bribes, the first of what is expected to be a series of formal graft charges against the leader in the coming weeks.

Alaska lauds black soldiers' work on WWII highway

[2017-06-28 07:32]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches.

Manila won't talk with militants

[2017-06-28 07:32]

MANILA - The Philippine government will stick to its policy of not negotiating with extremists allied with the Islamic State group that overran Marawi City in the southern Philippines in May, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.

9 die as boat capsizes in Colombia

[2017-06-27 07:05]

BOGOTA - At least nine people were dead and 28 others went missing after a tour boat with some 170 passengers onboard capsized on Sunday afternoon in northwest Colombia. Officials did not yet say what caused the El Almirante to go down in the Penol-Guatape reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape, in Colombia's northwest department of Antioquia.

Nations torch drugs worth $1 billion

[2017-06-27 07:05]

YANGON/BANGKOK - Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia torched nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as police struggle to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region.

May strikes deal to get DUP support

[2017-06-27 07:05]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party struck a deal with the small Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, which will allow her a slim majority in parliamentary votes.

Trump eager for big meeting with Putin

[2017-06-27 07:05]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump is eager to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the idea is exposing deep divisions within the administration on the best way to approach Moscow in the midst of an ongoing investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US elections last year.

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