Italy PM Conte resigns amid political row

Italy's prime minister has resigned after launching a blistering attack on his own interior minister, Matteo Salvini, accusing him of sinking the ruling coalition and endangering the economy for personal and political gain.

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Militants leave as Syria takes rebel town

The main insurgent group in the Syrian province of Idlib has pulled out of a key rebel town as government forces advanced in the area amid intense bombardment and air strikes, a militant group and opposition activists say.

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Kashmir border clashes leave several dead

Several people have been killed in fresh exchanges of gunfire between Pakistani and Indian border forces in the disputed Kashmir region.

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'Somebody had to take on China': Trump

President Donald Trump says his administration is looking to cut US taxes on wages and on profits from selling assets such as stocks, but that he isn't talking about doing anything imminently.

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Boris optimistic on Brexit deal, EU baulks

The European Union is being "a big negative" about the prospects of reaching a Brexit deal but it can be done, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says.

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Hundreds escape prison in West Papua riots

Indonesian police are hunting for more than 250 inmates who fled a jail in Papua that had been set ablaze a day earlier, during a wave of civil unrest in cities across the country's easternmost area.

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Rio police shoot dead man who hijacked bus

A police sniper in Rio de Janeiro has shot dead a man who had hijacked a bus on a bridge across Guanabara Bay and taken 37 people hostage.

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Australian Associated Press