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Volkswagen CEO will step down by Sept. 1
VIENNA — Herbert Diess, the CEO of the German automaker Volkswagen, is stepping down, the company announced Friday. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company
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American man accused of murdering his wife while on their honeymoon in Fiji
An American man was recently arrested and charged with murdering his wife while they were on their honeymoon at a
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Libya official: Renewed militia clashes in Tripoli kill 13
BENGHAZI, Libya — Clashes between competing militias in Libya’s capital on Friday killed at least 13 people, despite calls for calm
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Pakistan ex-PM Khan’s bloc sidelined in Punjab assembly vote
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party was sidelined in a key vote Friday in the local assembly in Punjab province,
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Terror threat cancels Iranian opposition’s summit in Albania
TIRANA, Albania — Iranian dissidents in Albania on Friday said they had canceled a summit following warnings from local authorities of
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School in east Ukraine hit by Russian strike, bodies found
KYIV, Ukraine — Emergency workers recovered three bodies from a school hit by a Russian strike in eastern Ukraine, officials said
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Bannon contempt trial: After guilty verdict, Bannon rips Jan. 6 committee members
Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, was
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‘A beacon of hope’: Ukraine, Russia sign grain export deal
LONDON — Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of Dover on
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Secret Service says no new Jan. 6 texts found after records were deleted; investigation requested
The Secret Service notified the House Jan. 6 committee that it had found no new text messages related to the
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Will the BA.5 COVID strain force new mask mandates?
The new COVID-19 variant, called BA.5, has been rapidly spreading across the country and is now estimated to make up
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House passes bill codifying same-sex marriage right, with some Republicans joining Democrats
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage in the wake of
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With fires raging in Europe, France detains man over blaze
LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France — Investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in southwest France detained
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Israeli leader warns Hezbollah during visit to border
JERUSALEM — Israel’s new prime minister paid an unannounced visit to the border with Lebanon on Tuesday, threatening to unleash a
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Lawsuit: UK officials had concerns with Rwanda deportations
LONDON — Officials at Britain’s Foreign Office warned against the U.K.’s plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, citing the East African
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UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles
LONDON — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of
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Greece: Hundreds evacuated as fire nears mountain suburbs
DRAFI, Greece — Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday as a wildfire threatened mountainside suburbs northeast of
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Russia pounds Ukraine as Putin gets Iran’s backing
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine, hitting homes, a school and a community center
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Putin warns EU that gas supplies could keep dwindling
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it is the West’s own fault that the flow of Russian natural gas
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Tunisian opposition party leader free after questioning
TUNIS, Tunisia — The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party was freed after being questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion
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Japan extends detention for Abe’s alleged assassin
TOKYO — Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s
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