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ROME -- The Eurosceptic League led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini emerged as Italy's largest party after European Parliament elections held here on Sunday, exit polls suggested.

The anti-immigrant party won 27 to 31 percent of the vote, according to projections by three different pollsters unveiled by state TV broadcaster RAI. (Italy-EU-Election)

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TOKYO -- The leaders of Japan and the United States underscored the importance of the two countries' alliance at the outset of their talks in Tokyo on Monday.

"I also want to make this an opportunity to clearly demonstrate, in and out of Japan, that the bonds of the Japan-US alliance continues to be firm in the Reiwa era," the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said to U.S. President Donald Trump. (Japan-U.S-Summit Talks)

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A prison conflict in northern Brazil left 15 dead on Sunday, local authorities confirmed.

According to the authorities, the incident occurred at the Anisio Jobim Prison Complex in the Amazon Rainforest region. It was not a prison riot, authorities said, but a fight between inmates during visit hours. (Brazil-Prison Conflict)

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KABUL -- At least 10 people were wounded after a bomb blast struck a government workers' bus in Afghan capital on Monday, a security official confirmed.

"A sticky bomb attached to a mini-bus carrying employees of Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs was detonated in Baraki neighborhood, Police District 2 roughly at 7:45 a.m. local time. The initial information found 10 people aboard the bus were wounded," said a police officer who requested anonymity. (Afghanistan-Explosion-Bus) Enditem

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