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Saudi-led airstrike at Yemen wedding killed at least 20Health officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, killing at least 20 people

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Report: Iran officially bans use of cryptocurrenciesA newspaper says Iran's Central Bank has officially banned the use of cryptocurrencies in financial transactions in order to prevent money laundering and terrorism.

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The Latest: UN chief says retreat 'cooled' Syria tensionsU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says a retreat in Sweden with members of the deeply divided Security Council had "cooled down" tensions over Syria, stressing that all 15 members fully support a political solution

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The Latest: Yemen rebels say strike kills senior officialYemen's Houthi rebels say their acting head of state has been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition

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Yemen's rebels say airstrike by Saudi-led coalition has killed the head of their presidential councilYemen's rebels say airstrike by Saudi-led coalition has killed the head of their presidential council

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, smoke rises after Syrian government airstrikes and shelling hit in Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, southern Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 22, 2018. Syrian state media says government forces are pounding districts of southern Damascus held by Islamic State militants with warplanes, helicopters and artillery in a bid to enforce an evacuation deal reached earlier in the week. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops look to isolate IS in Damascus battleSyrian state media say government forces have moved to cut off Islamic State militants in southern Damascus from nearby rebel-held suburbs in an attempt to force the extremists to surrender or evacuate the district

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Fearing Ethiopian dam, Egypt bans water-intensive cropsEgypt's parliament has passed a law banning the cultivation of crops that require a large amount of water, amid fears that a massive Ethiopian dam being built upstream could cut into the country's share of the Nile

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Iran police's assault on woman over headscarf stirs debateVideo of police assaulting woman over her loose headscarf stirs debate on mandatory hijabs in Islamic Republic

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Yemen detainees in UAE-controlled prison start hunger strikeDozens of prisoners at UAE-run prison in southern Yemen start hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention

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Watchdog warns of humanitarian crisis in Egypt's SinaiRights group warns of humanitarian crisis in Egypt's Sinai amid military campaign against militants

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Qatar denies UAE, Bahrain allegation over military jetsQatar is denying an allegation by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that it sent military fighter jets dangerously close to an Emirati commercial airliner

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2 Palestinians die of wounds sustained in Gaza protestsGaza's Health Ministry: 2 Palestinian youths die of wounds sustained in Israeli fire during border protests

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Yemen health officials: Saudi-led coalition bombed a wedding in northern Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 15Yemen health officials: Saudi-led coalition bombed a wedding in northern Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 15

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Kuwait says overnight fire at onshore oil rig now containedKuwait's state-run oil company says it has contained a fire at an onshore oil rig in the country's southwestern oilfields

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Prosecutors say terror suspect doesn't qualify for immunityFederal prosecutors say a former California college student charged with providing material support for a terrorist group isn't entitled to the sort of immunity often bestowed upon soldiers in national armies during wartime

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AP Entertainment HeadlinesThe Latest: White House spokeswoman can relate to Kate

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge with their newborn baby son as they leave the Lindo wing at St Mary's Hospital in London London, Monday, April 23, 2018. The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth Monday to a healthy baby boy — a third child for Kate and Prince William and fifth in line to the British throne. (John Stillwell/Pool photo via AP)

AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesTrump says North Korea agreed to denuclearize. It hasn't.

FILE - This combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. Trump is claiming Sunday, April 22, 2018, that North Korea has agreed to "denuclearization" before his potential meeting with Kim, but that's not the case. The North says it will suspend nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches before summits with the U.S. and South Korea. The North stopped short of suggesting it has any intention of abandoning its nuclear arsenal. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesThe Latest: McConnell looks forward to confirming Pompeo

In this April 12, 2018, photo, Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo speaks during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his confirmation on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Pompeo, faces serious opposition including a rare rebuke expected Monday, April 23, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as all Democrats, and at least one Republican, have said they will oppose him. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

AP Entertainment HeadlinesClinton: Free press is under 'open assault' in Trump era

FILE - In this April 13, 2018 file photo, Hillary Clinton speaks during the ninth annual Women in the World Summit in New York. Clinton says press rights and free speech are “under open assault” under Donald Trump, and has likened his administration to an authoritarian regime. In a lecture on freedom of speech Sunday, April 22, the former secretary of state minced no words as she decried what she called “an all-out war on truth, facts and reason.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesTrump says he doesn't think personal lawyer will 'flip'

FILE - In a Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, center, leaves federal court, in New York. Federal prosecutors said they can give President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Cohen, copies of materials seized from him by the FBI by May 11. They notified a New York judge Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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