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Video captures bridge collapsing in Taiwan
A towering bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below.
World
Vladimir Putin's war on garbage is a battle to stay in power
Trash has become a key issue in Russia, where only 1% ends up in recycling.
TV & Media
Israeli TV series 'Shtisel' has megafans in Minnesota
The show has generated "Shtisel mania" among Minnesota's Jewish community and many other followers.
Local
Iranian sentenced, deported for illegally exporting tech from Minnesota to Iran
With credit for time served, the woman gains life back with her husband and the boy she gave birth to while in custody.
World
Greta Thunberg chastises world leaders at climate summit
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg chided world leaders at the United Nations with the repeated phrase, "How dare you?"
Nation
'Greta': A young climate change activist's moment, praised and criticized
She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. "How dare you?" she kept saying to some of the world's most powerful people. "You are failing us," she told them.
Hundreds of thousands affected as British travel firm fails
Families stranded, honeymoons and vacations canceled, thousands of workers laid off: The sudden collapse of British tour company Thomas Cook and its network of airlines and hotels sowed chaos for hundreds of thousands of travelers and businesses around the world Monday.
Nation
Guantanamo Bay costs U.S. $13 million per prisoner
With the world's most expensive detention program taking on a sprawling and permanent feel, the expense is likely to continue far into the future.
Politics
Canada's Trudeau comes under fire over brownface photo
At a time when bigotry seems on the rise around the world and doors are being shut, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has become known as a champion of diversity. Now, amid his bid for re-election, that reputation is under attack in a furor triggered by a photo of him in brownface at a costume party two decades ago.
World
Trudeau apology: brownface unacceptable and racist
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a 2001 costume party. The prime minister apologized.
West Metro
St. Louis Park man who joined ISIS is believed found in Syrian prison
Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 22, disappeared in 2015 while on a family vacation. He claims that the FBI interrogated him in a Syrian prison.
World
Coral gardeners bring back Jamaica's reefs, piece by piece
Everton Simpson squints at the Caribbean from his motorboat, scanning the dazzling bands of color for hints of what lies beneath. Emerald green indicates sandy bottoms. Sapphire blue lies above seagrass meadows. And deep indigo marks coral reefs. That's where he's headed.
World
Judo champion who defied Iran's rules now in hiding
Saeid Mollaei has been in hiding since he left the Iranian judo team last month, saying he had been ordered to withdraw from the world championships on political grounds.
World
Explosion on a road in southeast Turkey kills 4, wounds 13
Turkish officials say Kurdish rebels have detonated an improvised explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing four people and wounding 13 others.
World
Putin, Netanyahu meet before Israeli parliamentary election
Ahead of Israel's early parliamentary election next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has an interest in who wins power.
World
US envoy rejects claim of 'war crime' by key UN Syria panel
The United States' top envoy for Syria rejected Thursday findings by U.N.-backed investigators that deadly airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition early this year may amount to a war crime.
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