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Japan’s Kishida to call a general election on Oct. 31

TOKYO - Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday (Oct. 4) that he plans to call a general election on Oct. 31.

Facebook family of apps gradually returning to service

Facebook and its family of apps began to slowly return to service Monday (Oct. 4) following a six-hour worldwide outage whose cause remains unknown.

Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libyan coast: UNHCR

TRIPOLI - Hundreds of migrants had been rescued off Libya's coast in two separate operations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Sunday (Oct. 3).

Massive oil spill off Southern California coast a ‘potential ecological disaster,’ official warns

LOS ANGELES - A massive oil spill off the Orange County coast in Southern California prompted the closure of a 9-kilometer long beachfront area on Sunday (Oct. 3), and crews from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) are cleaning up the pollution from facilities in federal waters.

DPRK decides to restore all inter-Korean communication lines

PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) decided to restore all the north-south communication lines starting from 9:00 a.m. on Monday (Oct. 4), according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

Independent report claims boxing matches in 2016 Olympics manipulated

A report of an independent sports consulting firm in Canada on Thursday (Sept. 30) claimed that the results of the 2016 Summer Olympics' boxing matches have been manipulated by a system.

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