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Thousands flee killer wildfires in California

 U.S. calls for truce, Saudis launch attack in Yemen
Ireland votes to end blasphemy law

 Ireland votes to end blasphemy law
Women are half the ministers in Ethiopia’s new cabinet

 Spacecraft makes emergency landing in Kazakhstan

Trump: I told Saudi king he wouldn't last without U.S. support

 Chinese buy most “golden visas” in Portugal
New Zealand celebrates 125 years of women having the vote

 Florence floods the Carolinas
Florence floods the Carolinas

 U.S. chastises nations for ending ties to Taiwan
Remains of a brutal past returned to Namibia

 Climate change opens the Arctic to shipping
Ecuador declares emergency over Venezuelan migrants at its border

 Trump raises tariffs on NATO ally Turkey
Sweden’s crown jewels are stolen

 Severe weather kills hundreds in Japan
Luxembourg police deploy Tesla cars

 Nicaragua militias attack church to get to students
Thailand races to save boys trapped in cave

 Algeria turns off internet for high school exams
Name deal stirs up Greece and ‘North’ Macedonia

 Singapore hosts nuclear negotiations
Trump slaps tariffs on allies in Europe, Canada and Mexico

 Brazil sends in troops to clear protesting truckers
Ebola spreads to city of 1.2 million in Congo

 Iran and Israel trade attacks in Syria
Bering Sea ice drops to record low

 Driver kills 10, injures 15 plowing van into Toronto sidewalk crowd
King of Swaziland proclaims his nation will be henceforth known as eSwatini

Syrian man trapped in Malaysia airport
Russia tests missiles in the Baltic Sea, a day after Baltic leaders met with Trump

Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown

Bolivians demand access to sea at nationwide parades

Finland is rated the happiest while U.S. grows sadder
Reporter’s murder stirs mass protests in Slovakia

 Is China getting a ‘president for life’
Trump execs fight eviction from Panama hotel

 Will South Korea-North Korea thaw outlast Olympics?
Valentine’s Day roses courtesy of Colombia

 Laser scans finds Mayan ‘megalopolis’ in Guatemala
Bid to outlaw talk of ‘Poland death camps’ stirs anger

 South African city is running out of water
False missile alert panics Hawaii

 Electric and hybrid cars outsell others in Norway
More autonomy for Corsica gets a boost

 Trump decision on Jerusalem sparks protests
Citizens walk for hours to vote in Nepal

 Argentina to keep searching for lost submarine
Zimbabweans celebrate expected Mugabe downfall

 Tensions rise after Lebanon’s prime minister ‘quits’
Cosmic rays reveal hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid

 5-day funeral ends for Thailand’s king
Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta’s ties to tax havens

Millions flushed away in Switzerland
Madagascar battles plague outbreak

 Vanuatu flotilla begins evacuating islanders from volcano
Earthquakes kill hundreds in Mexico

 Myanmar troops force 400,000 to flee to Bangladesh
Hurricane Irma rips up the Caribbean on way to U.S.

 65,000 evacuated in Germany to dispose of WWII bomb
Hurricane Harvey tears up Texas

 Terrorist drivers kill 14 in Spain
Guam caught in a war of words with North Korea

 China opens first overseas military base in Djibouti
Boring, Oregon, finds friends in Dull and Bland

 Trump says Iran is complying with nuclear deal
Ecuador stops building border wall after Peru protests

 Singapore turns vacant space into urban farms
Arizona gets too hot for some planes to handle

 At least 62 killed in forest fire in Portugal
Qatar isolated in Persian Gulf crisis

 Truck bomb kills at least 80, wounds hundreds in Afghanistan
Bombing rocks Manchester in northern England

 Saudi Arabia is Trump’s first stop
Banana boom brings cash and chemicals to Laos

 France elects a new president
Trump talks tough about both North and South Korea

 March memorializes those killed in Venezuela unrest
Montenegro accuses Russians in coup plot

 U.S. bombs Syria after poison gas attack
Farmer swallowed by python in Indonesia

 Ontario school district bans field trips to U.S.
Helicopter attack kills refugees from Somalia

 Chicken dinners celebrate removal of South Korean president
Sweden will reinstate military draft

 Hungary drops its bid for Olympics
Malaysia hunts North Koreans in assassination

 War-torn Yemen facing famine
Trump’s 'worst call' with Australia’s leader

 Chile's worst wildfire outbreak destroys forests, farms and towns
Former Gambian president goes into exile

 Czechs ready for fake news ahead of elections

Seeking cash, Zimbabwe sells 35 elephants to China

 UN vote calls on Israel to halt settlements
Trump mocks CIA report on Russia’s role in election

 Netherlands and Belgium trade land
Bolivia schools close early as drought empties reservoirs

 Bhutan journalist faces jail for sharing Facebook post

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