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Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit, highlight nuclear security
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month and become the first sitting U.S. president to do so since World ...Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippines presidential elections
Geraldine Roman on Tuesday celebrated overcoming "bigotry, hatred and discrimination" as results showed she had become the first transgender politician to win ...BBC correspondent expelled from North Korea over reporting
North Korea detained a BBC journalist and ordered his expulsion over his reporting, the broadcaster said on Monday, as a large group ...Earthlings watch as tiny Mercury sails past the sun
Tiny Mercury, the solar system\'s innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about ...Austrian chancellor quits after far-right triumph
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann quit Monday, bowing to intense pressure two weeks after the opposition anti-immigration far-right dealt his coalition a historic ...Cameron warns Brexit threatens peace in Europe
Prime Minister David Cameron warned Monday that a British exit from the EU would threaten peace on the continent, as the campaign ...Duterte favourite as Philippines votes for new president
Tens of millions of Filipinos jammed into schools and other voting stations on Monday to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand ...Greece passes pension, tax reform bill
Greece\'s parliament on Sunday passed a package of unpopular pension and tax reforms that the country\'s leftist-led government hopes will help persuade ...Afghan road crash inferno leaves at least 73 dead
At least 73 people were killed Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision ...North Korea leader Kim sets five-year economic plan, vows nuclear restraint
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with ...




