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WHO rejects call for Olympics to be moved due to Zika
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to ...Colombian rebels free Spanish journalist, 2 others
Leftist rebels have freed a Spanish correspondent and two other journalists who went missing in a lawless region of Colombia, ending a ...Obama makes historic visit to Hiroshima
Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the site of the world\'s ...UN ends sanctions on Liberia
The last remaining United Nations sanctions on Liberia were lifted on Wednesday in a decision the United States called a tangible sign ...World leaders open G7 talks with economy in focus
World leaders kicked off two days of G7 talks in Japan on Thursday, with the creaky global economy taking centre stage and ...Trump denounces illegal immigrants as tensions flare
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump stumped in California, the US state with the largest Hispanic population, doubling down on his anti-immigration position ...Cuba considers legalizing small private businesses
The Cuban authorities are considering legalizing certain private businesses, a potentially transformative move for the communist island as it liberalizes its economy.Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant
A Stockholm district court on Wednesday maintained a European arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape allegation, rejecting ...Macedonia constitutional court annuls parliament dissolution
Macedonia\'s constitutional court has ruled that a decision to dissolve parliament to pave the way for early general elections was unconstitutional, and ...Greece starts evacuating squalid Idomeni migrant camp
Hundreds of Greek police on Tuesday began clearing the squalid Idomeni camp, a migrant flashpoint on the Macedonia border where thousands of ...