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Rohingya refugees celebrate holiday amid memories of home

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BANGLADESH, August 22: Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh were celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday,

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Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha as pilgrims conduct hajj rites

SAUDI ARABIA, August 21: Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha as over 2 million pilgrims carry out the final rites of the hajj in Saudi Arabia. Pilgrims walked to a complex

Turkey
Shots fired at gate of US Embassy in Turkey, but no one hurt

ISTANBUL, August 20: Shots were fired at a security booth outside the US Embassy in Turkey’s capital early Monday, but US officials said no one was hurt. Private Ihlas news

India
800,000 displaced in flooding in southern Indian state

INDIA, August 19: Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, as authorities rushed to

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Fresh quake rocks Indonesia’s Lombok island

INDONESIA, August 19: A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a tremor killed more than 460

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Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80

GENEVA, August 18:  Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black

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Pakistan’s Imran Khan sworn in as prime minister

ISLAMABAD, August 18 — Pakistan’s cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan has been sworn in as prime minister after his party won the most votes in last month’s election despite protests by

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Vatican in ‘shame and sorrow’ over abuses in Pennsylvania

VATICAN CITY, August 17 — The Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in

Afaganistan
Suicide bomber targets Shiite students in Kabul, killing 48

AFGHANISTAN, August 16: A suicide bomber struck a private education center in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul on Wednesday where high school graduates were preparing for university entrance exams, killing

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Japanese emperor tries to make amends for his father’s war

TOKYO, August 15: For his last time, Japan’s Emperor Akihito addressed a memorial service Wednesday marking the end of World War II. Once again, he expressed “deep remorse” for the