Hundreds injured as Spanish festival platform collapses into sea

Hundreds of people were hurt, five seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in northwestern Spain on Sunday night, state television RTVE reported.

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Afghan special forces sent to bolster threatened city defenses

Afghan special forces units moved to embattled Ghazni overnight to try to beat back Taliban insurgents who have come close to overrunning the city as public anger mounted over the government's response to the crisis.

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Heathrow Airport passport queues reach 2.5 hours

The airport's border force missed its target for non-EEA visitors nearly every day last month.

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Florida candidate tried to prove she's a college graduate. The school says her diploma is fake. - Washington Post

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Florida candidate tried to prove she's a college graduate. The school says her diploma is fake. Washington Post The political kerfuffle around Melissa Howard began when a news site reported that the Florida state House hopeful is not a college graduate, as she claims to be. To prove the story wrong, Howard (R) reportedly flew to her proclaimed alma mater, Ohio's ... and more »

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Rival Korea leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September - ABC News

Rival Korea leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September ABC News The rival Koreas announced Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang sometime in September, while their envoys also discussed Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament efforts and ... and more »

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Data recorder, human remains recovered in stolen plane investigation

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Brooks Koepka holds off Tiger Woods, Adam Scott to win PGA Championship

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Ticketmaster to close resale sites Seatwave and Get Me In

Seatwave and Get Me In will be shut down in October in a bid to fight touts, Ticketmaster announces.

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North, South Korea agree on third summit to be held in Pyongyang

North and South Korea agreed to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the latest step forward in cross-border ties this year after more high-level talks on Monday, the South's Unification Ministry said.

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No risk of speculative attack on Italian markets: deputy PM

Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Monday there was no risk of speculators attacking the country's financial markets and that the government was working to stabilize the economic and financial situation.

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Humanitarian ship seeks European port for rescued migrants

Human rights groups called on European governments on Sunday to tell a charity ship where it can dock and let more than 140 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean disembark in safety.

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Russia's Lavrov to discuss planned four-way Syria summit in Ankara

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday a four-way Syria summit "is planned in the upcoming future", with the leaders of Russia, France, Turkey and Germany attending.

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Blaze at Taiwan hospital kills 9; cause being investigated

A fire at a hospital in Taiwan killed nine people on Monday and injured 15 and an investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze, authorities said.

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Malaysia seeks $35 million private jet linked to 1MDB scandal

Malaysia is seeking to repossess a $35 million private jet owned by financier Low Taek Jho as part of investigations into a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday.

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Australian PM's popularity slumps as government fractures emerge

The personal approval rating of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull fell to its lowest level in more than four months, a widely watched poll showed on Monday, adding pressure on Turnbull as he seeks to unite a fractured government.

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Hippo kills Taiwan tourist visiting Kenyan lake

A hippopotamus attacked and killed a tourist from Taiwan who was taking photographs on the shore of Lake Naivasha.

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Arrested and killed: inside the Bangladesh prime minister's war on drugs

Bangladesh police arrested Riazul Islam as he was walking home from his in-laws' house. At 3:15 a.m., he was shot dead in a sandy field beside a set of railroad tracks north of Dhaka.

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China has prevented 'great tragedy' in Xinjiang, state-run paper says

Massively stepped-up security in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang has helped prevent "great tragedy", a state-run newspaper said on Monday, in the country's first response to a critical United Nations report on the situation there.

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