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The man gave away tickets to foreigners after developing a fear of asking them for money. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2JshEZE

"No permission was granted" to play the song at a rally held hours after a mass shooting, his lawyer says. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2yBO67C

A vet in Portugal is using washing machines to house stray cats in her home town. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Od9jtv

Bulgarian police will protect a Soviet Army monument from graffiti artists. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2EYMACm

Uzbek deputy PM sacked for making farmers stand in an irrigation ditch. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2ER8Yxn

Are fears among environmentalists about the election of Brazil's new president justified? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2EPWNRa

A law against pretending to be a witch is set to be repealed, but not before two women are charged. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2zpcZ6j

Why have Nigeria's main parties both chosen septuagenarian presidential candidates? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2ABVbq9

The president wants to end the right of people born in the US to be citizens but does he have the power? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Q6xr2V

So extensive is the spread of English, a group of lecturers warns of a looming "linguicide". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2ABTn0d

How a friendly chat on the sidelines opened the door for North and South Korea to start talking. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2CPZ7VN

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba on Wednesday, according to a Reuters witness, more than two years after he fled the country after the collapse of a 2016 peace deal. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Q6jOR5

An Afghan army helicopter crashed in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 crew and passengers, provincial officials said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PDX0eN

Austria will follow the United States and Hungary in withdrawing from a United Nations agreement on migration, APA news agency said on Wednesday, citing Austrian concerns about its sovereignty and potential restrictions on its freedom to act. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2RnY0AI

Indonesian search and rescue workers believe they have found the fuselage of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed with 189 people on board, and are also trying to confirm the origin of an underwater "ping" signal, officials said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ju5QpM

Indonesia's transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its jets with 189 people on board, the Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PvGKMv

Indonesian search and rescue workers have detected a 22-metre long object underwater in area where a Lion Air passenger jet with 189 people on board crashed, a navy official said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2RrSihm

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Tuesday for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen and said U.N.-led negotiations to end the civil war should begin next month. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Q5Ifhy

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy against Islam, a ruling likely to set off mass street protests by hardline Islamists. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Prx4Tx

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan bestowed names on Wednesday to two newly-hatched young of New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi, in the northeastern town of Rotorua, on the final day of their two-week tour of the Pacific. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2CUOj99

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam's prophet, ordering her to be freed if she was not accused of any other crime. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2SuAofj

Philippine rescue teams worked to free at least 30 people trapped under earth and rubble on Wednesday after a typhoon dumped heavy rainfall on a mountainous region, triggering floods and deadly landslides. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Jy0qu5

A suicide bomber blew himself up near the gate of Afghanistan's largest prison on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding three, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JrbZTJ

Efforts to decide self-ruled Taiwan's future by "other than peaceful means" are a grave concern to the United States, a senior American diplomat said on Wednesday, amid renewed tension between China and the island it considers a wayward province. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2DcI5lF