Pakistan's Imran Khan 'quietly confident' he will be PM

Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan said he was "quietly confident" of victory in a general election this month and that as prime minister, he would drive an anti-corruption and anti-poverty campaign in the south Asian nation.

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Turkey signs deal with Pakistan on sale of 30 attack helicopters

Turkey and Pakistan have signed an agreement on the sale of 30 Turkish T129 attack helicopters in what will be the biggest export deal of the Turkish defense industry, the country's defense industry directorate said on Friday.

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Eritrea's president to visit Ethiopia, Eritrean minister says

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki will visit Ethiopia on Saturday, Eritrea's information minister, Yemane Meskel, said on Friday, days after the two neighbors declared their "state of war" over.

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Thai soccer team planned to be inside the cave for only an hour

Twelve boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand planned to explore the cavern complex for only about an hour before treacherous flood waters rose to trap them for more than two weeks, one of the boys' fathers said.

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Danish man charged with starting destructive Colorado wildfire

A Danish national accused of starting the second-largest wildfire on record in Colorado was charged on Thursday with 141 counts of first-degree arson for each building destroyed in the massive blaze, court documents showed.

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White House orders greater access to files on FBI informant: New York Times

The White House has ordered that a wider group of lawmakers have access to classified information about an informant the FBI used to investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two American officials with knowledge of the decision.

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U.S. judge asked to create mental health fund for migrant children

A civil rights group asked a federal judge on Thursday to order the U.S. government to provide mental health counseling for the around 2,000 immigrant children separated from their parents by officials at the U.S.-Mexican border.

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Explainer: Drought creates a perfect storm for wildfires in U.S. West

Bigger and more "explosive" wildfires are raging across the U.S. West, with the area burned in Colorado already four times the size of last year's total, as rising temperatures, drought and a buildup of forest fuels supercharge blazes.

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Ex-N.Y. state university official found guilty of bid-rigging

The former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute was found guilty on Thursday of charges that he helped rig a 2013 bidding process for a billion-dollar development project intended to revitalize the Buffalo, New York region.

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Build-A-Bear limits store promotion as crowds build a logjam

Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc, the global stuffed-animal retailer, had to limit a popular pay-your-age event on Thursday as long lines stretched outside its U.S., Canada and UK stores and crowds clogged mall corridors.

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Fourth defendant pleads guilty to racist attack livestreamed on Facebook

The last of four defendants pleaded guilty on Thursday to taking part in a racially-charged 2017 attack on an 18-year-old mentally disabled Illinois man that was livestreamed on Facebook, county prosecutors said.

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Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio strip club, but charges dismissed

Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has said she had a sexual encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump, was arrested while performing at an Ohio strip club on Thursday, but the charges were dismissed and her lawyer called the arrest a politically motivated setup.

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Jury orders J&J to pay $4.7 billion in Missouri asbestos cancer case

A Missouri jury on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company's talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.

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