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  Lebanon’s health minister says women and children are among the dead as rescuers search through rubble. Read More

  Vladimir Kara-Murza thought he would be executed before the biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War began. Read More

  Footage shot from the road shows a massive blast and huge plume of smoke in Tikhoretsk. Read More

  The rains have caused floods and landslides in the coastal quake-hit region of Ishikawa in northern Japan. Read More

  New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped and held captive by separatists in Indonesia’s West Papua region. Read More

  Robert Hernandez, a Cal Fire employee, is suspected of starting five blazes in recent weeks in the US state. Read More

  Freddie Owens, convicted of murdering shop worker Irene Graves in 1997, dies by lethal injection. Read More

  The ban affects government officials and military personnel, over concerns about Russian cyber-attacks. Read More

  Scandalous claims about a Trump-endorsed candidate for governor generate turbulence on the campaign trial. Read More

  Cost of living is front of many voters’ minds in what is expected to be a close race. Read More