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BEIRUT, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said in a statement on Friday that an artillery shell hit its West Sector headquarters in the village of Chamaa in southern Lebanon. “This afternoon, a 155mm…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 10-story hotel under renovation in Argentina collapsed Tuesday, leaving one person dead and at least seven trapped in the debris, authorities said. Firefighters searching for survivors rescued a woman who was alive from the rubble…

TOKYO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, plunged more than 4 percent on Monday after former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba was elected head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last Friday. ■

France finally has a government more than two months after a snap election triggered by President Macron. With calls for a vote of no confidence from day one, how long can it survive? Even though the left won the elections…

DULAC, La. (AP) — Shortly after Hurricane Francine’s storm surge flooded a cemetery in the Louisiana bayou town of Dulac, Lori-Ann Bergeron arrived Thursday to check on three generations of family graves. Their tombstones were fine, but neighboring caskets had…