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UN's Nikki Haley to leave in latest Trump shake-up

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest shake-up for President Donald Trump’s turbulent administration, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley abruptly announced Tuesday she is resigning at the end of the year, raising f...

Oct 10, 2018
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Kanye West to visit Trump, discuss prison reform, violence

Rapper Kanye West has been invited to the White House. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that West is scheduled to have lunch with President Donald Trump and meet with Trump's s...

Oct 9, 2018
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10 minutes of terror: A quake, a tsunami and a missing son

PALU, Indonesia (AP) -- The Muslim call to prayer had just started echoing across the Indonesian city of Palu when Musrifah's home began to shake violently. Family photos fell from the walls. Dishes...

Oct 9, 2018
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Australia seeks to settle migrants outside major cities

SYDNEY, (AFP) -- Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced Tuesday. While much ...

Oct 9, 2018
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Hong Kong leader refuses to explain journalist visa denial

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong's leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating demands for an explanation of the unprecedented...

Oct 9, 2018
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Malaysian PM rallies for successor and former foe Anwar

PORT DICKSON, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is campaigning for his designated successor and former foe Anwar Ibrahim, urging voters to support Anwar's return to active po...

Oct 9, 2018
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UN report: Technologies can help lives but boost inequality

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- New technologies from artificial intelligence to gene editing hold immense potential to improve people's live -- but can also drive greater inequality and social dislocation, a...

Oct 9, 2018
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Area hit hard by Indonesia quake was seen as high-risk zone

PETOBO, Indonesia (AP) — When the violent shaking from a massive magnitude 7.5 earthquake finally stopped, Selvi Susanti stood up and realized something strange was happening. First, she saw the grou...

Oct 9, 2018
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Rocket carrying Argentinian satellite takes off successfully

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite into space Sunday and for the first time landed a first-stage booster back at its ...

Oct 8, 2018
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning

WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an inter...

Oct 8, 2018
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Strong aftershock rattles north Haiti day after deadly quake

Haiti (AP) -- A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12...

Oct 8, 2018
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20 killed in upstate New York limo horror

NEW YORK (AFP) - Twenty people have been killed after a limousine careened out of control in what investigators described Sunday as the most deadly transportation accident in the United States for ne...

Oct 8, 2018
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Interpol's missing Chinese chief resigns amid Beijing probe

BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing announced Monday the Chinese head of Interpol, who vanished after returning to his homeland, was under investigation for possible criminal activity, and the world police organ...

Oct 8, 2018
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One dead, two flee as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

TUNIS (AFP) -- A boat carrying migrants trying to reach Italy from Tunisia capsized overnight, with one person killed, a security source in the North African country said on Sunday. The makeshift ve...

Oct 8, 2018
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[Graphic News] Female winners of scientific Nobel Prizes in history

US scientist Frances Arnold became the fifth women to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry on Oct. 3, a day after Canada’s Donna Strickland became the third woman -- and the first in 55 years -- to clinch...

Oct 7, 2018
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