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Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped ...

Over two dozen families from one of the few remaining Palestinian Bedouin villages in the central West Bank have packed up and fled their homes in recent days, saying harassment by Jewish settlers ...

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In 1943, Army pilot Lt. Morton Sher of Greenville was killed and declared missing. Eight decades later, his remains were ...