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Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:34:14 GMT2017-06-26T07:34:14Z

BEIJING (AP) -- The world's biggest coal users - China, the United States and India - have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year's record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions....

Dozens missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:22:42 GMT2017-06-26T03:22:42Z

GUATAPE, Colombia (AP) -- A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, leaving at least six people dead and 31 missing, officials said....

The Latest: 3 Australian Crown Resorts employees sentenced

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:40:36 GMT2017-06-26T04:40:36Z

SHANGHAI (AP) -- The Latest on the criminal trial of Australian and Chinese casino workers in a Chinese court (all times local):...

UK: All samples from high-rise towers fail fire safety tests

Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:14:21 GMT2017-06-25T23:14:21Z

LONDON (AP) -- The list of high-rise apartment towers in Britain that have failed fire safety tests grew to 60, officials said Sunday, revealing the mounting challenge the government faces in the aftermath of London's Grenfell Tower fire tragedy....

Pakistan raises death toll to 157 from fuel truck fire

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:20:28 GMT2017-06-26T08:20:28Z

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's prime minister cut short a trip abroad to rush to the side of victims of a massive fuel tanker fire as authorities on Monday raised the death toll from the blaze to 157....

China's jailed Nobel Peace laureate granted medical parole

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:09:15 GMT2017-06-26T09:09:15Z

BEIJING (AP) -- Jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo has been released on medical parole after being diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, his lawyer said Monday....

Jewish group cancels meeting with Netanyahu in protest

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:13:27 GMT2017-06-26T08:13:27Z

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A high-profile group of Jewish leaders cancelled a gala event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to protest his government's decision to scrap plans for a mixed-gender prayer area at Jerusalem's Western Wall....

Attention on Supreme Court as justice weigh Trump travel ban

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:10:49 GMT2017-06-26T07:10:49Z

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The focus is on the Supreme Court as the high-stakes legal fight over President Donald Trump's travel ban awaits action by the justices....

Center-right set to win top race in Italian mayoral runoffs

Sun, 25 Jun 2017 22:59:52 GMT2017-06-25T22:59:52Z

ROME (AP) -- Exit polls early Monday indicated that center-right forces, including an anti-immigrant party, were headed to victory in several key mayoral runoffs, two weeks after a first round of voting saw most populist candidates eliminated in all big cities up for grabs....

Italy giving 5.2B euros in resources to keep 2 banks open

Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:51:15 GMT2017-06-25T21:51:15Z

ROME (AP) -- The Italian government on Sunday made 5.2 billion euros ($5.8 billion) of resources immediately available to keep operative two banks that the European Central Bank has deemed "failing or about to fail," sending them into insolvency procedures....

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