Senator Rand Paul wins damages after neighbour attack

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Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff

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China's factory activity shrinks as slowdown worries rise

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Emiliano Sala: Missing Cardiff striker's former club Nantes pay tribute

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The story of a US raid on al-Qaeda in Yemen

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Polar vortex: What is it and how does it happen?

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Actor 'tasted brutality of hatred'

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The Afghan Invictus athletes claiming asylum in Australia

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Zimbabwe women raped as government crackdown continues

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MP defends unmasking shot reporter

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'Why I fled Saudi Arabia and sought asylum in the UK'

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Richard E Grant in tears over Barbra Streisand's reply to 1970s fan letter

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The Lord of the Ringos? Peter Jackson to direct a Beatles film

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Bulgarians decry ‘eco vandalism’ on coast

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Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail

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How do you compost a human body - and why would you?

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The Indians sharing their villages with crocodiles

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Maduro and Guaidó: Who is supporting whom in Venezuela?

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Nastya Rybka: Model who got caught up in the Trump-Russia row

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Why Dutch fear Brexit no deal will leave onions to rot

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FOX NEWS: Johnny Cash's former Tennessee property selling for $3.95 million

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FOX NEWS: 6 surprising items you can recycle instead of toss

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FOX NEWS: Most expensive home in US – dubbed ‘billionaires’ bunker’ – purchased for $238 million

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Cost-conscious Chinese tourists staying closer to home for Lunar New Year

Trade tensions with the United States and a slowing economy are keeping Chinese tourists to budget-friendly destinations closer to home for the Lunar New Year holiday, with more likely opting for Bangkok than Sydney or San Francisco.

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China's military-run space station in Argentina is a 'black box'

LAS LAJAS, Argentina - When China built a military-run space station in Argentina's Patagonian region it promised to include a visitors' center to explain the purpose of its powerful 16-story antenna.

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Russia, U.S. last-ditch talks to break nuclear pact deadlock fail: agencies

Russia and the United States failed to bridge their differences over a landmark Cold War-era arms treaty at last-ditch talks in Beijing, Russia's deputy foreign minister was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Thursday.

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Watchdog shows Afghan defense forces declining as peace talks edge forward

The strength of the embattled Afghan defense forces has declined to its lowest level in four years, a U.S. watchdog said on Thursday, as talks between Washington and the Taliban continue over the possible withdrawal of foreign troops.

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African churches boom in London's backstreets

On a cold, grey Sunday morning, in a street lined with shuttered builders' yards and storage units, songs of prayer in the West African language of Yoruba ring out from a former warehouse that is now a church.

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Soft power: Australia uses hard game to tackle China in Pacific

Australia will direct more foreign aid to develop the sport of rugby league in the Pacific, officials say, bolstering a soft power offensive against China's growing influence in the region.

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Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters reporters

A Myanmar court on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act, saying the defense had not provided sufficient evidence to show they were innocent.

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