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U.S. debt tops $40 trillion. And, new census report Trump is touting raises concerns

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North Korea fires a suspected missile toward the sea, Japan says

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Chinese court sentences founder of property developer Evergrande to life in prison

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Prince Harry and Meghan are returning to the U.K. with their children

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Israeli military launches criminal probes into killings of 5-year-old and paramedics

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Iraq is caught between Washington and Tehran

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Greetings from Trouville-sur-Mer, a beach town little changed since Monet painted it

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U.S. delays 50% tariff on Canadian imports. And, takeaways from Florida's primaries

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How India's blocking of a film exposing real-life police abuses backfired

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Congo's Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts

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Israel strikes an air base in Syria to prevent Turkish troops from deploying

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Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S.

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Charm and charges for India's youth

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S. Korea stresses US alliance amid confusion over Trump drill cut

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U.S. and Iran miss peace talks deadline. And, Alaska, Florida and Wyoming primaries

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Jason Arday's rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says

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Palestinian American returns to his West Bank home, under siege by Israeli settlers

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Israeli settlers besiege a West Bank house owned by a U.S. citizen

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USS Washington to relieve USS Lincoln. And, Jared Kushner to meet with Netanyahu

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Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

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Kushner meets with Hamas on the Gaza road map ahead of talks with Netanyahu

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A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security

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What really happened in Ceuta? Why we may never find out

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Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia

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