Israel PM adds war goal of allowing northern residents to return home
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday expanded the country's goals for the war in Gaza, vowing to allow Israelis who fled areas near the Lebanon border to return to their homes.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested amid lawsuits
Sean "Diddy" Combs -- the rap mogul whose star has plunged after a wave of sex trafficking accusations and assault lawsuits -- was arrested in Manhattan late Monday.
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Buoyant Bangladesh seek more history in India Test series
Fresh from their first-ever Test series win over Pakistan, Bangladesh will chase more cricket history when they face India in Chennai from Thursday.
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Boeing, union to resume talks as strike quiets Seattle plants
Negotiators from Boeing and the machinists union are scheduled to resume talks Tuesday after some 33,000 workers went on strike late last week.
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UN General Assembly to debate call for end to Israeli occupation
UN member states will debate Tuesday a push by the Palestinians to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months.
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'Virus hunters' track threats to head off next pandemic
A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging viral threats, including many driven by climate change, in a bid to head off the world's next pandemic.
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Firefighters battling flames around Brazil's capital
Brazilian firefighters on Monday battled flames blazing through a nature reserve in the capital district of Brasilia, where an area the size of 3,000 football fields has already been destroyed.
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Myanmar flooding death toll jumps to 226
The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, as the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could be in need of help.
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Peruvian police seize 1.3 tons of shark fins
Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 US tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk.
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Town at center of US migrant conspiracies hit with 33 bomb threats
The town of Springfield has seen some three dozen bomb threats as it endures being the center of Republican-boosted conspiracy theories about immigration, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday.
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