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Hong Kong police to enter university as hunt for protesters turns up empty

The red-brick university on Kowloon peninsula was turned into a battleground in mid-November.

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First of 39 bodies found in U.K. truck repatriated to Vietnam

So far 16 bodies have been returned to families in Hanoi two days after the suspect trucker pleaded guilty to assisting in plotting illegal immigration.

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Top Maltese officials quit amid probe into reporter's murder

The resignations follow the arrest last week of Maltese hotelier and power company director Yorgen Fenech in relation with the case.

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Green Vault heist: Experts fear royal treasures could be destroyed and lost forever

"The fact that these are precious cultural objects to Saxons and the world means nothing to these criminals," one expert said.

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Fears grow for Arizona woman detained for months in China

Fountain Hills resident was detained on Aug. 29 as soon as her flight landed in Shanghai.

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Saudi Arabia arrests more journalists and activists, rights group says

"They are still repressing people, still arresting more human rights defenders," said Yahya Assiri, a London-based Saudi dissident.

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Sub believed to be carrying tons of cocaine sinks off Spain's coast

Media reports said the vessel could be carrying three metric tons of the drug.

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Deadly earthquake rattles Albania

The magnitude 6.4 quake killed at least four and injured 150, officials said. It was centered 19 miles northwest of the capital, Tirana.

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Surveillance video shows thieves using axe during Dresden jewerly heist

"This is an attack on the cultural identity of all Saxons and the state of Saxony," an official said.

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'Unimaginable' loss after heist at world-renowned museum in Dresden

"Not only the state art collections were robbed, but we Saxons," tweeted the prime minister of Saxony.

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Human Rights Watch researcher deported by Israel vows to continue work

Israel revoked the visa of Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, under a law barring entry to foreigners who have called for boycotts of Israel or its settlements.

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Pro-democracy landslide in Hong Kong vote prompts stern response from China

For months, Hong Kong protesters have been demanding that China loosens its grip on the former British colony.

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At least 25 dead as plane crashes into homes in Congo

A small passenger plane carrying at least 17 people crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday in Congo's eastern city of Goma.

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Record flooding pushes a new worry on Venice: Fleeing Venetians

Inhabitants are used to seasonal deluges but were not prepared for recent onslaughts, which plunged more than 80 percent of the city under water.

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U.N. refugee organization reopens corruption probe after NBC News report

NBC News reported that refugees in Uganda said workers for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, wanted bribes for everything from medicine to U.S. resettlement.

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Hong Kong turns out in huge numbers for vote viewed as referendum on protests

The district elections were being viewed as a key test of public support for protests that have shaken the territory for months.

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Boris Johnson may just have met his match: the voting public.

The test for the Johnson, who is fighting his first election as prime minister, is how he acts when the laughter stops.

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'France's shame': Thousands protest in Paris against domestic violence

France has among the highest rates of domestic violence in Europe.

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U.S. reversal on settlements leaves Palestinians fearing what's next

The United States on Monday reversed its decadeslong position that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal.

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U.S. military says unmanned drone lost over Libyan capital

Fighting has raged between rival groups for control of Tripoli for months.