W.Va. coal billionaire Cline killed in helicopter crash
Coal tycoon Chris Cline, who worked his way out of West Virginia's underground mines to amass a fortune and become a major Republican donor, has died in a helicopter crash outside a string of islands he owned in the Bahamas.
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Protesters take over Hong Kong's legislature
A large group of protesters in Hong Kong has taken over the legislative chamber, spray painting slogans on the wall and over the territory's emblem.
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Trump meets Kim, steps into North Korea
President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un shook hands across the border at the Korean Demilitarised Zone on Sunday.
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Trump in South Korea after G-20 summit in Japan
President Donald Trump has landed in South Korea after flying from Osaka, Japan, where he met with world leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping.
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Venezuela's migration could top Syria's by 2020
The new figures represent a serious challenge for a region that's already seeing anemic economic growth.
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Trump meets with China's Xi at G-20 summit
Once again, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have hit the reset button in trade talks between the world's two biggest economies, at least delaying an escalation in tension that had financial markets on edge and cast a cloud over the global economy.
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Trump jokes to Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'
With a smirk and a finger point, President Donald Trump dryly told Russia's Vladimir Putin "Don't meddle with the election" in their first meeting since the special counsel concluded that Russia extensively interfered with the 2016 campaign.
Drowned father, daughter left humble origins in El Salvador
Julia Pérez makes a living selling pupusas, traditional Salvadoran stuffed pastries, to residents of the Altavista neighborhood who rise before dawn and rush to buses bound for their jobs in the capital about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away.
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A grim border drowning underlines peril facing many migrants losing hope of asylum
The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.
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Zimbabwe unveils plan to sell wild elephants to reduce population
Clashes between animals, people prompt removal plan.
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Protests disrupt visit to Venezuela by U.N. human rights official
Human rights official urges release of prisoners.
After calling off strikes on Iran, Trump suggests patience
President Donald Trump said Friday he abruptly called off the swiftly planned military strikes on Iran because the likely deaths of 150 Iranians would have been so out of proportion to the shootdown of an unmanned American surveillance drone. He also indicated he still hopes for talks with Iranian leaders rather than any escalation of military conflict.
US prepped for strikes on Iran before approval was withdrawn
The United States made preparations for a military strike against Iran on Thursday night in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, but the operation was abruptly called off with just hours to go, a U.S. official said.
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Trump approves strikes on Iran, then abruptly pulls back
It was not clear whether Trump simply changed his mind on the strikes or whether the administration altered course because of logistics or strategy. It was also not clear whether the attacks might still go forward.
Iran shoots down US surveillance drone, heightening tensions
Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked the American military amid tensions over Tehran's unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
Tensions rise as Iran speeds up enrichment, US sends troops
Iran will surpass the uranium-stockpile limit set by its nuclear deal in the next 10 days, an official said Monday, raising pressure on Europeans trying to save the accord a year after the U.S. withdrawal lit the fuse for the heightened tensions now between Tehran and Washington.
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Video purports to show Iran removing ship mine
The U.S. military's Central Command has released a video it says shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the two ships suspected to have been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. (Video only; no audio)
Perfectly preserved head of Ice Age wolf found in Siberia
Russian scientists have found the furry head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost 40,000 years after it roamed the earth.
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