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Spain mounted a sweeping anti-terror operation on Friday after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13...
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After tensions between US and North Korea reached the danger zone with war looming, senior US national security officials have said on...
President Donald Trump gave North Korea an apocalyptic warning on Tuesday, saying it faced “fire and fury” over its weapons programs, as...
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Hiroshima, the city that suffered US atomic bombing in 1945 during World War II, commemorated on Sunday the 72th anniversary of the...
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