Michael Gove, Abandoning Boris Johnson, Enters Race for Conservative Party Leadership and other top stories.

• Michael Gove, Abandoning Boris Johnson, Enters Race for Conservative Party Leadership

  

  LONDON — Displaying further division and discord among the leaders of the victorious campaign to take Britain out of the European Union, Michael Gove, the justice secretary, announced on Thursday his candidacy to lead the Conservative Party and become prime minister.Mr. Gove’s candidacy is a significant blow to Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London who with Mr. Gove was among the most prominent leaders of the campaign to leave the bloc. And it could be a significant boost for Theresa May, t..

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• Malaysian Opposition Politician Charged With Graft

  

  A Malaysian opposition politician who has strongly criticized financial scandals involving Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with corruption Thursday but vowed to fight on. The prosecution of Lim Guan Eng, chief minister of northern Penang state, has sparked accusations of a witch hunt by the government, which itself faces allegations of massive corruption in a multibillion-dollar scandal involving a state investment fund. His lawyer, Gobind Singh Deo, said Lim was charged with abusing..

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• Israeli girl stabbed to death by Palestinian inside bedroom

  

  Image copyright IDF Image caption The Israeli military released a photograph showing Hallel Yaffa Ariel's blood-stained bedroom A teenage Israeli girl has been stabbed to death in an attack at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.Thirteen-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel was attacked while she slept inside her bedroom in Kiryat Arba. A security guard who responded to the incident was wounded before the attacker was shot dead by other guards.The Pa..

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• Rodrigo Duterte inaugurated as Philippines president

  

  Duterte, 71, won the presidential election in May by 16 million votes, or about 38%, an unassailable lead that forced his three opponents to throw in the towel one after the other.Promising that "change is coming" Duterte -- called "the Punisher" for going after alleged criminals and drug dealers -- captured the imagination of the masses long suffering from chronic corruption and high crime.In his speech he highlighted the country's problems of corruption, criminality, drugs and the erosion of ..

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• Istanbul terror attack: Turkey mourns 42 killed as investigators seek answers

  

  Those detained in the raids Thursday included three foreign nationals, according to state media. They did not provide information on their nationalities. When the attackers arrived at the Turkish airport armed with rifles and suicide bomb vests, two opened fire and detonated their bombs at the international terminal building, according to officials.A third one died in the parking lot, where he detonated himself as terrified travelers scattered in all directions. Like the attack in Brussels, t..

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• Iraq Destroys 200 Vehicles in Airstrike on Alleged ISIS Convoy

  

  Iraqi airstrikes destroyed around 200 vehicles believed to be carrying ISIS fighters fleeing one of their former strongholds — killing an unknown number of people, a senior official told NBC News on Thursday. Brig. Yahya Rasool, a spokesman for Iraq's Joint Operation Command, said Iraqi helicopters and warplanes attacked the convoy on a road about 12 miles south of Fallujah on Wednesday. "All ISIS militants traveling in these vehicles were killed," he said without providing a number of p..

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• Taliban suicide bombers kill 27 in attack on Afghan police cadets

  

  KABUL Two Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 27 police and wounded around 40 in an attack on Thursday on buses carrying recently graduated cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul.A police official said that, according to preliminary information, three buses were attacked as they approached the Afghan capital from neighboring Wardak province."Initial information we have is that two suicide bombers were involved and there are many casualties," he said, declining to be identified by name. A..

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