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Aids deaths down a third since 2010: UN
While Aids-related deaths in Africa, the continent most affected by the epidemic, have plummeted this decade, Eastern Europe has seen the death toll rise 5% and the Middle East and North Africa 9%.
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Over 100 killed, millions displaced from floods in India, Nepal and Bangladesh
Some 4.3 million people have been displaced from their homes in Assam in the last 10 days due to rising waters across the mostly rural northeastern region, according to a government release on Monday.
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Amazon workers strike as 'Prime' shopping frenzy hits
Amazon workers picketed outside the facility, briefly delaying a few trucks and waving signs with messages along the lines of "We're human, not robots."
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Trump under fire for attacks on Democratic congresswomen
Trump also accused the four first-term congresswomen - who are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African American origin - of having "love" for US "enemies like Al-Qaeda."
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Philippines' Duterte mulls cutting Iceland ties over UN probe
Duterte bristles at any Western condemnation of his signature campaign, which has killed thousands and critics say could amount to crimes against humanity.
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El Chapo expected to get life sentence from US judge
Last week, prosecutors asked US federal judge Brian Cogan to tack on a symbolic extra 30 years in prison for the use of firearms in his business, portraying Guzman as 'ruthless and bloodthirsty.'
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Aussie kids take stolen car on 1,000-kilometre road trip
Queensland police said the car was spotted early on Sunday morning in the outback town of Banana, where the kids allegedly stole petrol, before travelling south.
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Guatemala court blocks signing of migration deal with US
President Jimmy Morales, who was under pressure at home not to seal the deal, called off White House talks with Donald Trump set for Monday hours.
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Key questions as flight MH17 remembered five years on
Five years ago on Wednesday, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was blasted out of the sky over war-torn eastern Ukraine with the loss of all 298 people on board.
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Hong Kong leader says protesters in latest clashes can be called 'rioters'
Lam made the comments at a hospital where she visited three police officers injured in violent disturbances on Sunday between police and demonstrators angry about an extradition bill.
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Iran ready to talk if US lifts sanctions, Pompeo skeptical
Confrontations between Washington and Tehran have escalated, culminating in an aborted plan for US air strikes on Iran last month after Tehran downed a US drone. Trump called off the retaliatory US air strike at the last minute.
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Clashes break out as Hong Kong protesters escalate fight in suburbs
Millions have taken to the streets in the past month in some of the largest and most violent protests in decades over an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party.
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One dies, hundreds evacuate after 7.3 quake in Indonesia
In South Halmahera district, the closest area to the epicentre, around 160 houses collapsed when the shallow earthquake struck. A woman was confirmed dead in the disaster.
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Trump tells congresswomen to 'go back' where they're from
In a tweet, Donald Trump referred to "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," which appeared to be a reference to a group of outspoken relatively young, liberal women, all first-time members of the House of Representatives.
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Deadly monsoon destroys 5,000 shelters in Bangladesh Rohingya camps
Bangladesh's meteorological department said the Cox's Bazar district - home to nearly one million Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar - has seen at least 58.5 centimetres of rain since 2 July.
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At least 50 dead in Nepal's monsoon
Northeast India has also been hit by floods with 11 deaths recorded as rivers burst their banks.
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Huge power outage that plunged Manhattan into darkness ends
About 42,000 customers lost electricity in the early evening, according to power utility Con Edison, which didn't indicate a cause of the power failure.
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New Zealand's first gun buyback event a success - police
The event was the first of 258 planned until the end of the year, to compensate owners of powerful, but newly banned, semi-automatic weapons following the attacks.
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New Zealanders give up weapons after mosque killings
The first of more than 250 collections to be held nationwide was in Christchurch, where 51 Muslim worshippers were gunned down while at prayer less than four months ago.
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SA mulls revoking extradition of ex-Mozambique minister
In May, South Africa said it would send Manuel Chang back to Mozambique, which had requested his extradition, rather than agree to a competing US extradition claim.
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US regulators approve $5 billion Facebook settlement over privacy issues: source
Investors cheered news of the deal and pushed Facebook shares up 1.8%, while several powerful Democratic lawmakers in Washington condemned the proposed penalty as inadequate.
