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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam renewed her appeals for peace in the Chinese-ruled city yesterday but failed to offer any concessions to anti-government protesters despite a resounding victory for pro-democracy parties in local elections.
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Malta government chief of staff Keith Schembri resigned yesterday, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told reporters, as police continued their investigation into the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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The White House was briefly put on lockdown yesterday, as fighter jets were scrambled in Washington following an airspace violation, law enforcement officials told NBC News.
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Rescue crews with excavators were searching for survivors trapped in toppled apartment blocks after a powerful pre-dawn earthquake in Albania killed at least 18 people and injured more than 600.
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A federal judge has ordered former White House counsel Donald McGahn to appear before Congress in a setback to US President Donald Trump's effort to keep his top aides from testifying.
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The world has squandered so much time mustering the action necessary to combat climate change that rapid, unprecedented cuts in greenhouse gas emissions offer the only hope of averting an ever-intensifying cascade of consequences, according to new findings from the United Nations (UN).
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