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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will ask the Senate to schedule a referendum on whether to investigate and possibly bring charges against his predecessors, including almost all of Mexico’s living ex-presidents
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World Trade Organization rules that Trump administration tariffs on Chinese goods worth over $200 billion are illegal
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Portuguese authorities say they are close to bringing under control a major wildfire, with just a handful of hot spots being targeted by water-dropping aircraft
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Official figures show that unemployment in the U.K. edged up in July even though large sections of the British economy reopened after the coronavirus lockdown
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An Indonesian patrol ship has confronted a Chinese coast guard vessel that spent almost three days in waters where Indonesia claims economic rights and are near the southernmost part of China’s disputed South China Sea claims
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The United Nations refugee agency says it is “saddened and alarmed” after at least 10 refugees were killed in an attack last week by local residents in northern Uganda amid tensions over increasingly scarce resources
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The U.N. migration agency says that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya
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U.N.: At least 24 migrants drowned or missing and presumed dead after boat capsizes in the Mediterranean near Libya
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Chinese authorities have confirmed the criminal detention of 12 Hong Kongers who were allegedly attempting to travel illegally to Taiwan by boat last month, while the foreign ministry in Beijing labeled the group separatists
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Greek authorities say they three people have died and 56 have been rescued from the sea after a vessel carrying migrants sank off the southern island of Crete
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his plan to unilaterally rewrite Britain’s divorce deal with the European Union is a necessary insurance policy against the bloc’s unreasonable behavior
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Scientists say an enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be about 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles), has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic
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Almost 1,000 firefighters and 15 water-dropping aircraft are battling a major wildfire in central Portugal
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Poland’s conservative government has come under criticism in the European Parliament, where some lawmakers called for it to lose European Union funding over its rule of law record and discrimination against LGBT people
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Albanian family members are protesting, demanding that the government bring back 52 children who have been stuck in Syria because their parents were extremists
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A new report says warring parties in Yemen’s yearslong conflict are “severely restricting” the delivery of desperately needed aid as the country slides toward famine amid the coronavirus pandemic
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The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan is in Pakistan to express his gratitude for Islamabad’s role in helping launch the much-awaited negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan representatives
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