On your marks, set, go -- the Rio Games are here and the next chapter in Olympic history is about to be written.

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A three-person IOC panel will have the final say on Russian athletes' eligibility to compete at Rio 2016.

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The making of the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic medals is a mix of art and science.

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Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct connection.

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The outbreak of terror attacks in Northern Europe has also translated into growing hostility toward migration, writes Tim Lister.

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Since declaring its caliphate in June 2014, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has conducted or inspired more than 140 terrorist attacks in 29 countries other than Iraq and Syria, where its carnage has taken a much deadlier toll. Those attacks have killed at least 2,043 people and injured thousands more.

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In what may be a sign of a cultural shift in India, well-known Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted of raping an American researcher.

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Syria and Russia will establish four additional humanitarian corridors into Aleppo, Russian state media reported Sunday, a day after both governments said residents began using the routes to flee the besieged city.

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Hundreds of soldiers detained in the fallout of the July 15 coup attempt have been released, Turkish state media reported.

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As Turkey returns to some degree of normality following the July 15 coup attempt, which claimed the lives of 246 people and 24 coup plotters, the government has wasted little time in their response.

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An ISIS hostage-taking at an oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has ended with the attackers killed and their captives safely freed, a senior security source in the city told CNN.

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Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide car bombings Sunday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, an attack that left five civilians and a police officer dead.

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A top leadership candidate in Hong Kong has been banned from running in the upcoming elections after the government declared he "cannot possibly fulfill his duties as a legislator" while also pledging allegiance to his pro-independence party.

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Muslim community leaders have refused to bury one of the terrorists who killed a Catholic priest this week in northern France, according to the president of a local Muslim organization.

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Full stats from the PGA Championship

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DNC hack is criticized by Clinton camp as Russia interference in U.S. election, to help Trump. But Kissinger, Clinton counselor, OKd similar interference by U.S..

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Dozens of families have started to trickle out of war-ravaged Aleppo, days after the Syrian army announced it had encircled the city and cut off rebel supply routes, according to reports.

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CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on the siege of rebel held Aleppo by the Syrian Army, and fears of massive suffering of the civilian population.

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Battlefield success against ISIS may produce more terrorism for the West, FBI Director James Comey warned this week.

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Pope Francis made a historic visit Friday to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp in Poland, to pay tribute to the more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, who lost their lives there in the Holocaust.

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A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean early Saturday.

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A U.N. humanitarian convoy under military escort came under Boko Haram gunfire during an ambush in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, the United Nations and Nigerian military said Friday. Three humanitarian staff members and two soldiers were injured.

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The 2016 presidential campaign has not been easy on American Muslims.

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A man was beheaded and his wife hacked to death after a disagreement with a grocer, according to authorities in India.

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A large wing part recently found on a Tanzanian island "highly likely" came from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, according to Australia's transport minister.

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At the same time that political tensions between Washington and Moscow were raging this week, the US and Russia calmly handled the emergency landing of a US military aircraft in western Siberia, according to the Pentagon.

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The Great Wall is disappearing, brick by brick, and Chinese authorities have had enough.

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In the Brexit aftermath, many British politicians needed nine lives just to keep hold of their job. Luckily, that won't be a problem for Gladstone.

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library," the late Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges once said.

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The build up to Rio 2016 has been beset by political, economic and health crises, while doping has cast a shadow over sport and track and field in particular.

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As all eyes turn to Brazil, the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, we bring you an alternative, cultural guide to the country that gave the world Gisele, Pelé and Walter Salles. Watch the video above for your A to Z of Brazil.

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From America to Britain to the United Nations, women are taking to the center of the political stage. At this week's Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton was officially selected as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, accepting the nomination with a striking video message that opened with a symbolic shattering of glass.

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Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al Nusra has announced it is severing ties with al Qaeda and changing its name to Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, according to a video statement from leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani.

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Syrian and Russian forces are to open humanitarian corridors for people to flee Aleppo, the day after Syria's army announced that it had encircled the besieged city -- cutting off supply lines and creating relief sites to distribute food and medicine to civilians.

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Scientists have discovered what's being described as the world's deepest underwater sinkhole in the South China Sea, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported.

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A new normal shrouds Europe now.

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A seven-year-old Moroccan girl has died after a zoo elephant threw a rock at her.

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How should the media report terror attacks? It's a question many in France have been asking after an 86-year-old priest was killed by ISIS terrorists Tuesday -- the latest in a slew of terror attacks in the country.

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Even before Tesla reported the first known death of a driver using its autopilot feature, some employees worried the car company wasn't taking every possible precaution.

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J.K. Rowling denounced a web site that is using her name and image to pitch a workshop that promises best-seller success.

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Syrian and Russian forces are to open humanitarian corridors for people to flee the besieged city of Aleppo, both countries' state media reported Thursday, the day after Syria's army announced it had encircled the city and cut off rebel supply routes.

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Syrian refugees just arriving in the United States will likely not be watching the Republican or Democratic conventions or the political ups and downs of the campaign.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday described recent attacks in the country and across Europe as "shocking, depressing and terrifying," but she refused to back down from an open-door refugee policy that has attracted fierce criticism following recent assaults in the country.

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Donald Trump went "beyond the pale" in calling on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email on Wednesday, former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.

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Donald Trump said Thursday morning that he was only kidding when he appeared to encourage Russian intelligence agencies to find Hillary Clinton's thousands of deleted emails.

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Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party's platform.

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