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January 16, 2019 at 1:53 pm

Unbearable stench: Giant sewage spill befouls Peru’s capital

A woman covers her nose as she passes a street that was flooded over the weekend with sewage water in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. In the middle of an intense pestilence, workers, police and soldiers struggled to clean up after a flood of sewage water was triggered by the obstruction of a huge pipe that collected waste from the most populated district of Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) LIM102 LIM102

The flooding began Sunday when millions of gallons of sewage spilled across more than 20 acres, flooding more than six feet deep in spots. The contractor was the Brazilian construction giant at the heart of a large corruption scandal. VIEW

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January 17, 2019 at 4:37 am

Slain mayor lies in state at Solidarity museum in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The slain mayor of Gdansk lay in state Thursday at a museum devoted to Poland's pro-democracy Solidarity movement, which started in... Updated 1:27 pm

January 17, 2019 at 12:06 am

Brexit talks by UK’s May called a ‘stunt’ by opposition VIEW

LONDON (AP) — A weakened but defiant Prime Minister Theresa May met lawmakers from Britain's rival Brexit factions Thursday to try to forge a replacement... Updated 1:46 pm

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FILE – In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, Rahaf al-Qunun makes a public statement in Toronto. Another Saudi woman has turned to social media for protection from her father just days after Canada granted refuge to Rahaf al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi who fled her family. (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press via AP, File) ARE101 ARE101

January 16, 2019 at 10:39 pm

Saudi women runaways rebel against system of male control

"When a Saudi girl decides to flee, it means she's decided to put her life on the line and take a very, very risky step,"...

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January 16, 2019 at 3:26 pm

Pair of male penguins act as parents, become celebrities in Australia

SYDNEY — It was a young penguin colony, and all but one of the couples were pretty bad parents. They would get distracted from their...

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FILE — Workers harvest coffee beans in Arusha, Tanzania, Oct. 16, 2018. More than half of all coffee species are at risk of vanishing in the wild because of climate change and deforestation, new research has found. (Adriane Ohanesian/The New York Times) XNYT47 XNYT47

January 16, 2019 at 11:36 am

Global warming is helping to wipe out coffee in the wild

More than half of the world's coffee species are at risk of vanishing in the wild because of climate change and deforestation, new research has...

January 16, 2019 at 10:56 am

Several thousand in Belgrade seek truth about Kosovo murder

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in the capital of Serbia, demanding that the authorities find out who killed a moderate Serb...

January 16, 2019 at 9:51 am

Serbia court acquits suspects in 2008 torching of U.S. embassy

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A Serbian appeals court has acquitted the suspects in the 2008 rioting and torching of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade after...

January 16, 2019 at 9:50 am

Burkina Faso says Canadian abducted by suspected extremists

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A Canadian national has been kidnapped by suspected extremists in Burkina Faso near its border with Niger, the West African...

In this grab taken from security camera footage released to the local media, an armed attacker walks in the compound of a hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Extremists launched an attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberate through the neighborhood. A police officer says he saw bodies, “but there was no time to count the dead.” Al-Shabab _ the Somalia-based extremist group _ is claiming responsibility. (Security Camera Footage via AP) AMB851 AMB851

January 16, 2019 at 9:42 am

AP Explains: Who are al-Shabab attackers of Kenya hotel?

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The overnight attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi that left 14 dead was quickly claimed by the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab,...

January 16, 2019 at 9:27 am

Albania parliament backs government reshuffle

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's parliament has backed a government reshuffle in a vote called by the prime minister after the country's president refused to...

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