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India launches historic bid to put spacecraft on Moon

India's moon mission Chandrayaan 2

Chandrayaan-2 -- or Moon Chariot 2 -- took off on time at 2:43 pm (0913 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on an island

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Hong Kong anti-government movement
Hong Kong braces for fresh anti-government march

Hong Kong is bracing for another huge anti-government march on Sunday afternoon with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub, sparked by years of rising

South Korea Japan diplomatic row
South Koreans boycott Japan beer in brewing trade row

Beer-loving South Koreans angered by a trade row with Tokyo are boycotting Japanese brews in a surge of patriotism that has even seen popular beauty bloggers targeted.

29 die as bus falls off India's 'highway to hell'
29 die as bus falls off India’s ‘highway to hell’

At least 29 people were killed Monday after a bus careered off one of India's busiest roads which has become known as the "highway to hell" because of its poor

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Trump celebrates ‘greatest political journey’ in history

President Donald Trump celebrated the story of America as “the greatest political journey in human history” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy but cheering crowd of spectators,

Japan resumes commercial whale hunting after 30 years
Japan resumes commercial whale hunting after 30 years

Japanese fishermen have set sail to hunt whales commercially for the first time in more than three decades after Tokyo’s controversial decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission.

Rain causes wall collapse in Mumbai, killing 15 people
Rain causes wall collapse in Mumbai, killing 15 people

Heavy rainfall in the western India city of Mumbai caused a wall to collapse onto shanties, killing at least 15 people and injuring 66, police said Tuesday, as forecasters warned

Antarctic sea ice melting
Antarctic sea ice in dizzying decline since 2014: Study

After mysteriously expanding for decades, Antarctica's sea ice cover melted by an area four times greater than France in just a few years and now stands at a record low,

‘Back on track’: Trump, Xi seal trade war truce

US President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed trade talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as "far better than expected" and vowed to hold off on further tariffs as negotiations

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Father, daughter drowning fuels anger at Trump migration policies

A shocking photograph of a Salvadoran man and his baby daughter drowned in the Rio Grande fueled a surge of emotion around the world Wednesday -- as US Democrats furiously