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Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli President Shimon, speaks during a press conference at the hospital in Tel Aviv, on Wednesday.

Israel mourns as preparations begin for Peres' funeral

The White House said Wednesday night that President Obama will lead a U.S. delegation to Jerusalem to attend Mr. Peres’ funeral Friday.

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World briefs: OPEC agrees to cut oil production for first time in 8 years

Plus: Kerry pushes trade pact; Envoy slasher sentenced; Airstrike kills 13 in Afghanistan; Typhoon hits China; Hurricane predicted

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Kerry warns that U.S. may suspend cooperation with Russia in Syria

The warning signaled growing frustration in the Obama administration at what it sees as a widening Russian effort to prop up Bashar Assad.

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Members of a joint investigation team present the preliminary results of the criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , in Nieuwegein, on Wednesday.

Russia Implicated in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine

A Dutch-led investigation says a powerful surface-to-air missile system was trucked in from Russia.

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U.S. adds more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul offensive

The Pentagon said the increase of 615 service members will bring the official number of U.S. troops in Iraq to 5,262.

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Debris from a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in July 2014 lies on the ground near the village of Rozsypne in the Donetsk region.

Prosecutors: Malaysian jet downed by missile moved from Russia

The findings challenge Moscow's suggestion that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down by the Ukrainian military.

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Obituary: Shimon Peres / Built up Israel’s defense and sought peace

He was one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation.

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A man sifts through trash at a massive garbage site in New Delhi on Tuesday.

More than 9 in 10 people breathe bad air, WHO study says

The new report is another sign that atmospheric pollution is a significant threat to global public health.

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Syrians inspect damaged buildings after airstrikes by government helicopters on the rebel-held Aleppo neighborhood of Mashhad, Syria, Tuesday. With diplomacy in tatters and a month left to go before U.S. elections, the Syrian government and its Russian allies are using the time to try and recapture the northern city of Aleppo, mobilizing pro-government militias in the Old City and pressing ahead with the most destructive aerial campaign of the past five years.

Battle for besieged Syrian city of Aleppo intensifies

With international diplomacy in tatters, the Syrian government and its Russian allies are seizing the moment.

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Baby born with DNA from 3 people, first from new technique

The goal was to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from his mother, who had previously lost children to the illness.

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World briefs: Militant leader found guilty of war crimes

Plus: Visions of living on Mars, A referendum for Italy, Greece’s bailout move,

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After deadly raid, India is steering a course of caution

Following a raid that killed 18 Indian soldiers at a Kashmir army base, some commentators bayed for a thundering strike against Pakistan.

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A local resident collects stones today from the Xindian river after Typhoon Dujuan passed.

Intense typhoon winds devastate Taiwan island, killing at least 4

Megi’s bands of heavy rain and sustained winds of 100 miles per hour blanketed the island by midafternoon.

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, an anti-Syrian government fighter, left, looks at a Syrian soldier, right, as he leaves the last besieged rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Waer in Homs province, Syria, on Monday.

Syria says truce still viable after week of airstrikes

Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem also said the government is prepared to take part in a unity government.

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A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, is kissed by her grandmother Monday in the Yari Plains of southern Colombia as they watch live images of govermment and FARC leaders sign a peace agreement.

Colombia, rebels sign peace agreement

The ceremony was meant to promote their agreement to end the country’s 52-year armed conflict.

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Baekdusan crater, called Changbaishan in China, and its caldera lake, are seen on Sept. 18.

Chinese firm charged with plotting to evade N. Korea sanctions

Also on Monday, the Treasury Department blacklisted the same firm, Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Company.

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Vice President Joe Biden shake hands with President of El Salvador Salvador Sanchez Ceren during North Triangle forum at Inter-American Development Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

El Salvador credits U.S. for drop in homicides there

El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are three of the most violent nations in the world.

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World briefs: Capsized boat was carrying 23 Cubans

Plus: Hollande says dismantle camp; no challenger for leader; party wins regional ballot; disappearance marked; and more.

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In this Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view shows the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in the remote Pingtang county in southwest China's Guizhou province. China has begun operating the world's largest radio telescope to help search for extraterrestrial life. (Liu Xu/Xinhua via AP)

China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life.

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35 states, including Pennsylvania, sue British drugmaker over marketing of opioid

They allege that Indivior tried to keep cheaper, generic versions of Suboxone off the market.

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Afghan refugee girls listen to their teacher during their daily madrassa, or Islamic school, lessons at a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Aug. 11, 2014.

After a lifetime in Pakistan, Afghans are told to go

The population of 1.5 million long-settled, registered refugees has been given six months to leave.

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In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, heavily damaged buildings are seen after airstrikes hit in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday.

At least 26 killed in Aleppo as U.N. meets over Syria

Residents have described the latest onslaught as the heaviest air bombardment of the 5½-year civil war.

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An elderly man stands among the rubble of the Alsonidar Group's water pump and pipe factory after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday.

Over 300 civilians have been killed in Yemen since August, U.N. says

The great majority of the casualties were inflicted in airstrikes by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

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2008 Crisis Deepened the Ties Between Clintons and Goldman Sachs

And even now, Ms. Clinton faces lingering doubts about the sincerity of her proposals to rein in Wall Street behavior—an idea she rejects.

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Members of Civil Defense removing a dead body Saturday from under the rubble after airstrikes hit in Aleppo, Syria.

Syrian troops advance in Aleppo amid war's heaviest bombing

The United Nations said that nearly 2 million people in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and onetime commercial center, lack running water.

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Britain's Jeremy Corbyn survives Labour Party leadership challenge

Mr. Corbyn, who has been described as “Britain’s Bernie Sanders,” proved once again he is overwhelmingly popular with the party’s grass

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World briefs: Triple suicide bombing kills 11 in Iraq

Plus: Elephant ivory trafficking, Chilean dictator guilty, Europe’s migrant crisis

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police chief Kerr Putney, right, gestures Friday as Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts, left, watches in Charlotte, N.C. during a news conference concerning protests and the investigation into Tuesday's fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.

Video shows deadly Charlotte incident, man’s wife recorded shooting by police

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Friday there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera.

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World briefs: 60 nations back airline emissions plan

Plus: Putin’s inner circle, India trying diplomacy, Facebook privacy battle, Great Wall touch up

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Assad and Russian allies bombard opposition forces in Aleppo, kill 100

Rescue workers shared numerous videos of men digging children out of piles of debris and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble.

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Evans Revere, then president of the Korea Society and a former Asia specialist at the State Department, talks to reporters after a meeting with North Korea's deputy foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator in 2007 in New York.

Ex-U.S. officials N. Koreans hold quiet meetings

Officials sat down in Singapore, Berlin, Beijing to discuss details of North Korea’s nuclear program.

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Egyptian coast guard and rescue workers bring a body ashore from a Europe-bound boat that capsized Thursday off Egypt's Mediterranean coast, in Rosetta, Egypt.

Scores drown after migrant boat capsizes

Dozens more are feared dead, between 20 to 30 bodies were seen being brought in by coast guards in gray inflatable boats Friday morning.

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly Friday, at U.N. headquarters.

Russia FM: Cease-fire agreement must be preserved

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov depicted his country’s military assistance to Mr. Assad as a positive counterweight to the chaos.

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Egyptian coast guard and rescue workers bring ashore a body from a Europe-bound boat that capsized off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, in Rosetta, Egypt, Thursday.

115 bodies pulled from waters after Egypt boat tragedy

Hundreds of migrants heading to Europe drowned when a boat capsized nearly 7.5 miles from the Nile Delta port city of Rosetta.

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Secretary of State John Kerry speaks Thursday in New York at a meeting of the International Syria Support Group.

Kerry admits diplomacy at impasse as Syrian truce collapses

Violence in Syria flared up anew and the relationship between the two key foreign powers in the conflict appeared to reach a new low.

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Amin Karim, representative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, right; Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, center; and Afghanistan national security adviser Hanif Atmar, left, pray after signing a peace deal in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday.

Afghan government signs draft peace pact with militants led by fugitive Islamist

Kabul hopes it will help restore stability to the country and bring one of its most notorious warlords into the political mainstream.

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Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Israeli leader invites Abbas to the Knesset in U.N. speech

The Palestinians quickly rejected the invitation as a “new gimmick” designed to mask what they described as Israel’s intransigence.

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World Briefs: Pakistan says it’s ready for India

Plus: Finding supports U.S.; more JPMorgan penalties sought; and more.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to President Barack Obama on Wednesday during a bilateral meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City.

Obama, Netanyahu look past years of tensions in last meeting

They bid each other farewell with a strident affirmation of security ties between their nations and little public talk of their differences.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters Wednesday.

World leaders rage against neighbors on 2nd day of U.N. debate

And a few paces from the General Assembly hall, the United States and Russia bitterly attacked each other during a Security Council meeting.

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Iraqi security forces are stationed outside the city of Shirqat near Mosul, Iraq, on Tuesday.

Pentagon: Islamic State fired mustard gas at coalition forces

If confirmed, it would be the first recorded chemical attack on U.S. troops since IS overran parts of northern and western Iraq in 2014.

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This undated photo released by the Israel Antiquities Authority shows an ancient charred scroll destroyed in a fire centuries ago.

Scanning software deciphers ancient biblical scroll

The passages offer the first physical evidence that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.

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Eske Willerslev, a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, is seen in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2.

A single migration from Africa populated rest of the world, studies find

Three separate research teams conclude that all non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population that left the continent.

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World Briefs: Migrant boat capsizes, at least 42 dead

Plus: S. Sudan rejects report; China’s chemical deaths; U.S., Canada cod fishing; and more.

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In this March 2, 2008, file photo, two passenger planes of Iran's national air carrier, Iran Air, are parked at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran.

U.S. grants Airbus, Boeing a chance to sell airplanes to Iran

The approval clears the way for the two plane manufacturers to access one of the last untapped aviation markets in the world.

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President Barack Obama reaches to shake hands with Peter Thomson, right, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after addressing the 71st session of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in New York City.

Obama, in a U.N. bow, stumps for open world

The president sought to rise above the conflicts of the moment and outline a future of international cooperation.

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Aid meant for war victims is seen strewn across the groud in the town of Urum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the morning after a convoy delivering the aid was hit by a deadly air strike.

U.N. suspends Syria aid convoys after ‘savage’ attack

The move jeopardizes food and medical security for millions of besieged and hard-to-reach civilians.

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Migrants look at smoke rising from an olive grove near the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday.

Greeks appeal for aid after fire damages refugee camp

The fire destroyed 50 prefabricated homes and dozens of tents, driving 4,400 migrants into nearby fields.

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France bans plastic plates and cutlery

No country seems to have embraced a plastic ban as sweeping as France’s will be.

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World Briefs: Opposition in Congo claims police killed 50

Plus: Rocket engine tested; 7 Afghan officers killed; Tropical Storm Lisa; Canada wary of Trump; and more.

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