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Singapore calls for vigilance after 'rocket attack' plot foiled
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Singapore called for heightened vigilance on Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.
Could 'Reformocons' update GOP economic views?
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Ronald Reagan's notions that policies that benefit the rich and big business lift all incomes now appear outmoded in a new era of rising wealth inequality and stagnant wages.
South African ruling party suffers worst election outcome
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South Africa's ruling party was struggling on Saturday to retain control of two major municipalities after losing one other key urban area in its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid.
At least 13 dead after France bar fire
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A fire swept through a bar in the northern French city of Rouen overnight, killing 13 people and injuring six, after a birthday cake with candles and sparklers fell to the floor and set the carpet ablaze, police said.
London knife attack accused to face court
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A teenager charged with carrying out a knife attack in London which left an American tourist dead and five people, including two Australians, injured has been remanded in custody after appearing in court.
Hiroshima marks 71st anniversary of atomic bomb
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The Japanese city of Hiroshima has commemorated the 71st anniversary of the atomic bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people at the end of World War II.
The height of pettiness? Wife, girlfriend pen duelling obits
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The wife and girlfriend of a deceased New Jersey man have placed competing obituaries side-by-side in their local paper because they could not agree on how to phrase the 55-year-old's death notice.
Putin is 'playing' Trump, says ex-CIA chief
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Michael Morell said Mr Putin drew on his training as a career intelligence officer to manipulate the Republican presidential nominee from afar.
Punisher Rodrigo Duterte has issued shoot-to-kill orders against elected officials
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Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has issued shoot-to-kill orders against elected officials, telling one mayor he should be shot "like a dog" because of his alleged involvement in drugs.
China slams Japan minister for ducking Nanjing massacre questions
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China on Friday accused Japan's new defence minister of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War Two.
Analysis: China's Gone Ballistic Since the Hague Ruling
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Chinese president Xi Jinping "had to choose between escalation and accommodation. Escalation it is."
Donald Trump names economic team of rich white men
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Donald Trump unveiled an economic team that's a mirror image of the candidate and his campaign: They're mostly outside the Republican, Wall Street and academic establishments, and they're all men.
Migrants break through Italy's barriers
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"Both the Italian and French forces at the border were taken by surprise," the Ventimiglia police commander said.
Trump unpopular with athletes in Rio
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Donald Trump once owned a professional American football team, and nearly bought another. He's also hosted several professional boxing bouts.
Video shows Chicago police shooting black teenager in the back as he fled
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Videos from the fatal shooting of a black teenager by Chicago police show officers firing into a car that was being driven away from them.
Man arrested over shooting deaths of 10 Protestants in Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland police have arrested a man over the shooting dead of 10 Protestant textile workers in 1976 in one of the deadliest of three decades of sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland.
Fear trumps free trade in US fortress of solitude
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The trade protectionism advocated by the US presidential candidates may have several dangerous ramifications.
Russian consulate in Rio denies man who shot mugger is a diplomat
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Russian officials have denied any links to a man who police say wrestled and killed a mugger near the Rio Olympic Park on Thursday.
Japan's Emperor Akihito to address the nation amid abdication rumours
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Japan's Emperor Akihito will make a video address to the nation on Monday, the Imperial Household Agency said, amid media reports that the 82-year-old monarch wants to abdicate.
German high court rejects "intersex" as third gender category
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Germany's high court on Thursday said it rejected the creation of a third gender category of "inter" to describe people born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical definitions of female or male.
Did Melania Trump immigrate legally to the US?
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Apparent inconsistencies in her account of immigrating to the United States from Slovenia in the 1990s have reporters asking questions.
Indonesia arrests six suspects allegedly planning Singapore attack
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Jakarta: Indonesian authorities arrested six suspected militants on Batam island on Friday who were believed to be linked to the Islamic State group and plotting an attack on nearby Singapore, an Indonesian police spokesman said.
The indigenous people paying the price for Brazil's political crisis
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As the eyes of the world turn to the Olympics, indigenous tribespeople and farmers are locked in a bitter conflict over Brazil's land.
Trump's enablers will finally have to take a stand
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Trump has shown that he is not a normal candidate. He is a political rampage charging ever more wildly out of control.
In Tianjin, China has done away with pretence of due process
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Each trial took less than half a day, with each man admitting guilt in time for China's prime-time news broadcasts.