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Disney to reboot Home Alone for TV streaming

[2019-08-09 08:12]

LOS ANGELES - Disney is rebooting Home Alone and Night at the Museum for its new TV streaming service, which launches in the United States in November and is intended to rival Netflix.

Japan lets out first S. Korean export since July curbs

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Japan has granted material exports to the South Korea for the first time since imposing restrictions on them in July but threatened further action.

Pakistan downgrades Indian ties

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ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - The political crisis over the disputed territory of Kashmir escalated on Wednesday when Pakistan said it would downgrade its diplomatic ties with India, expel the Indian ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its regional rival.

Car bomb attack by Taliban renews fears among Afghans

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KABUL, Afghanistan - A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighborhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 - most of them women, children and other civilians - shortly after the extremist group and the United States reported progress on negotiating an end to Afghanistan's nearly 18-year war.

Warning issued as searing temperatures claim dozens of lives in Tokyo in 6 days

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TOKYO - At least 39 deaths in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the first six days of August were attributable to heat-related illnesses, as a heatwave continued to scorch wide swaths of Japan, local media reported on Wednesday.

New study unearths the magic of mushrooms

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For Sylvie Rapior, mushrooms belong to the most magical of the five kingdoms of biological life.

Ankara, Washington agree on 'joint operation center' for north Syria

[2019-08-09 08:12]

ISTANBUL - Turkish and US officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to establish a "joint operations center" for northern Syria aimed at creating a safe zone to manage tensions between Turkey and a US-backed Kurdish militia.

Hostility as Trump visits gun victims

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US President Donald Trump met on Wednesday with elected officials, first responders and victims of the deadly mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, as protesters blamed his rhetoric on immigration for stoking racial animosity.

Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests in Mississippi

[2019-08-09 08:12]

MORTON, Mississippi - US immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants on Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

Caracas to skip Barbados talks with opposition

[2019-08-09 08:12]

Venezuela's government will skip a round of Norway-brokered talks on Thursday and Friday to protest a new set of US sanctions against the country, the Venezuelan Information Ministry said on Wednesday.

Washington 'ready' to sign post-Brexit trade deal

[2019-08-09 08:12]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country would be ready "pen in hand" to sign a free-trade deal with the United Kingdom post-Brexit, but US legislators who would have to approve any such deal have made it clear things would not be so simple because of the issue of the Irish border.

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