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Australia’s wildfires choke Sydney

 Trump resumes peace talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Southern Africa’s deadly drought is leaving millions hungry

 High tides swamp Venice in northern Italy
French woman not French enough for Quebec

 Protests force Chile to drop plans to host summits
Solomon Islands reject Chinese deal to lease an entire island

 Protests and a general strike paralyze Barcelona, Spain
Ecuador’s president moves government to avoid protests

 Ukraine rocked by U.S. political storm
Threat of Mont Blanc glacier collapse forces evacuation

 Online videos spark protests over corruption in Egypt
Drone strikes hit major oil sites in Saudi Arabia

 Austria’s capital listed as the world’s ‘most liveable city’
Indonesia to move its capital from a sinking city

 Tensions grow between U.S. allies Japan and South Korea
Beer with the prince: Liechtenstein marks its 300th anniversary

Fired scientist warns of Amazon deforestation in Brazil
Mass shootings kill at least 29 in Texas and Ohio

 Puerto Rico’s governor resigns after protests
Dutch court rules on a massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Wrong man’ from Eritrea freed after 3 years in Italian prison
‘Wrong man’ from Eritrea freed after 3 years in Italian prison

 Fox travels 2,175 miles across the arctic in 76 days

Dominican Republic deaths don’t look all that “mysterious”

Hundreds of thousands protest in Hong Kong
Vatican City Radio delivers the news – in Latin

 Philippines returns garbage to sender
European Union voters choose a parliament

 Iran’s leaders and Trump say they don’t want war
Hostages rescued in Burkina Faso praise fallen French commandos

 Thailand crowns a king
Drones begin delivering medical supplies in Ghana

 Northern Ireland leaders urge calm after journalist's killing
Rulers ousted, protesters demand more change in Algeria and Sudan

 U.S.-China trade talks could bring a presidential summit
Brunei defends tough new Islamic laws

Trump backs Israel’s authority over seized territory
March Madness is on a march to Minnesota

 Road building sparks fighting in New Guinea
Grandmother rescued from an iceberg in Iceland

 Attack inflames tensions between India and Pakistan
Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles

 Vietnam will host new talks between Trump and Kim
Calling Gibraltar a colony upsets Britain

 Students in Belgium skip school to join climate protests
Denmark tells new citizens to shake hands

 Residents slowly abandon a forgotten town on Hispaniola
Mexico’s president owns no cars or real estate, but his wife does

 Easter Island leader says Moai statue might be better left in British Museum
France drops fuel tax hike amid 'yellow vest' protests

 Ukraine bars Russian men after naval clash
Switzerland holds vote about cow horns

 Former leaders convicted of genocide in Cambodia

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

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