Trump wishes 'no ill will' with Tweet on Muslim lawmaker: White House

President Donald Trump did not wish any harm in his Twitter post criticizing Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's comments on the 9/11 attacks, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Sunday.

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Squalid conditions fuel frustration in South African township ahead of election

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Eastern Libyan warplane crashes in southern Tripoli: military sources

An eastern Libyan warplane crashed on Sunday in southern Tripoli, military sources said.

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German state-owned TV accuses Venezuela of blocking its Spanish channel

Germany's state-funded public broadcaster Deutsche Welle accused Venezuela's broadcast authority on Sunday of having blocked its Spanish-language channel from cable networks in the country.

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Nepal plane crash: Three die at world's 'most dangerous' airport

An aircraft veers off the runway at a remote airport near the Himalayas, killing three people.

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Minority Hazaras in Pakistan protest for third day after Quetta attack

Minority Shi'ite Hazaras blocked traffic in a sit-in protest for a third day in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday after a suicide bomb killed 19 people in an outdoor market, many of them ethnic Hazaras.

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Victims' remains kept by Nazi doctor to be buried in Berlin: Bild

Over 300 tissue samples from people killed by the Nazi regime and kept by a Berlin doctor will be laid to rest in a ceremony in Berlin on May 13, 74 years after the end of World War Two, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.

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Spain's Sanchez hardens position on Catalonia ahead of election

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who faces a national election in two weeks' time, has said he will act with "strength and proportion" against any attempt by Catalan separatists to repeat their 2017 independence bid.

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffer outages

The website Down Detector reports more than 9,000 people have complained that Facebook is down.

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Brexit cannot define us, says UK PM's deputy as ratings dip

Britain's ruling Conservative Party cannot let itself be defined solely by Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Sunday, as polling showed failure to leave the European Union on schedule has badly damaged its support.

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World War Two bomb detonated in Frankfurt's river

Some 600 people are evacuated from parts of the German city as experts explode a device underwater.

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Algeria protests: Youth lead the movement for change

Long-serving leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but many say this is just the start.

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Egypt president meets Libyan commander Haftar in Cairo

The president of Egypt met on Sunday in Cairo with the commander of eastern Libyan forces who is under international pressure to halt an advance on the capital Tripoli.

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Philippines confirms death of Islamist group leader

Philippine officials on Sunday confirmed that a leader of an alliance of pro-Islamic State militants was one of four insurgents killed in a clash with the military last month.

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Ukraine election: Poroshenko debates empty podium as Zelensky stays away

Petro Poroshenko's rival, Volodymyr Zelensky, fails to turn up for their election debate.

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Israeli delegation cancels visit to Bahrain after outcry

A delegation from Israel that was due to attend a conference in Bahrain this week has pulled out due to security concerns, the organizers said on Sunday, after Bahrainis held an extensive campaign against the visit.

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Arab Spring comes later in Sudan and Algeria

The armed forces of Algeria and Sudan, which pushed out the long-serving rulers of those countries after mass protests, are following a script that has failed millions of Arabs since the 2011 uprisings.

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Seychelles president delivers speech in Indian Ocean calling for better protection for world's seas

Seychelles' leader delivers a speech in defence of the Indian Ocean from inside a submersible.

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Sudanese protesters await military's response on transition demands

Several thousand Sudanese protesters continued a sit-in outside the Defense Ministry on Sunday as they pressured the military to accelerate a transition towards civilian rule.

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