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Uruguay's government on Monday rejected an ultimatum by a former Guantanamo prisoner who is on a hunger strike demanding to leave the South American country.

Two priests have been found dead after they were abducted in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Joined by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, a Yazidi woman who described praying for death while being raped by her Islamic State captors called on world leaders Monday to step up efforts to bring the militants group to justice for genocide and other crimes.

A self-defense group says Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria and beheaded the local chief and his son.

Allister Sparks, a South African journalist and commentator who documented injustices under white minority rule as well as South Africa's evolution as a multiracial democracy, has died at the age of 83.

Economists have long said that when the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia.

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Amnesty International on Monday called on Argentina to implement a plan to welcome Syrian refugees fleeing their country's civil war.

Employees at one of Saudi Arabia's largest privately-run hospitals have gone on strike to protest nearly four months of salary delays.

President Vladimir Putin sees the governing party's huge gain in parliamentary elections as a vote of confidence in his government, despite a low voter turnout which suggests broad public apathy and dismay with the political process.

Italy's foreign ministry says that two Italian workers have been kidnapped in Libya.

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Archaeologists excavating one of the richest shipwrecks of antiquity say they have found a 2,000-year-old depth measuring device, and bones that could help build an ancient mariner's genetic profile.

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has ordered a man arrested pending trial for attacking a woman who was wearing shorts on a bus, after his initial release from custody caused uproar.

Germany's top security official has ordered a review of the way migrants' passports are scrutinized, after some fake documents were reportedly overlooked.

International Criminal Court judges have reported Kenya to the court's governing body for failing to cooperate with investigators in the failed prosecution of the country's president.

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Witnesses say at least four people are dead after opposition protests against a delayed presidential election turned violent in Congo's capital.

Archaeologists are back searching for an unmarked grave in southern Spain where the acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca is believed to have been buried following his execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

North Korea is an economic basket case that incomprehensively pours resources into nuclear weapons and cares only about enriching a tiny circle of elites when it can't even feed its own people.