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'Bleak' assessment of toll of destroying North Korea nukes
WASHINGTON - A ground invasion of North Korea is the only way to locate and destroy, with complete certainty, all components of leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program, according to a Penta...
Nov 05, 2017
Smog blankets Pakistan, India, causing accidents, illness
ISLAMABAD - Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and neighbouring India, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home, officials said Saturday. Pakistani ...
Nov 05, 2017
3 dead, 2,000 evacuated as storm strikes Malaysian state
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A northern Malaysian state was paralyzed Sunday by a severe storm that led to three deaths and the evacuation of some 2,000 people in the worst flooding in years. Penang, a po...
Nov 05, 2017
Slovak neo-Nazi leader defeated in regional election
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovakia’s neo-Nazi parliamentary party suffered a blow after its chairman failed to get re-elected as the head of a regional government, according released Sunday. Marian...
Nov 05, 2017
Saudi arrests of princes consolidates another's power grab
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia’s heir to the throne is overseeing an unprecedented wave of arrests of dozens of the country’s most powerful princes, military officers, influential bus...
Nov 05, 2017
Saudi-led coalition warns Iran over Yemen missile launch
SANAA, Yemen - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen closed off the land, sea and air ports to the Arab world’s poorest country early Monday after a rebel-fired ballistic missile targeted Ri...
Nov 05, 2017
Catalan Five get conditional freedom in Belgium
BRUSSELS - Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four close separatist allies regained their freedom at the end of a tumultuous Sunday that started when they surrendered in Brussels to face p...
Nov 05, 2017
Trump declares North Korea "threat to the civilized world."
TOKYO - Declaring that North Korea was “a threat to the civilized world,” President Donald Trump vowed Monday in Japan that the United States “will not stand” for Pyongyang men...
Nov 05, 2017
Sicilians vote for new governor in last test before 2018
MILAN - More than 4.6 million voters in Sicily are heading to the polls Sunday to pick a new regional governor in the last important vote before a national election early next year. While five candida...
Nov 05, 2017
Port Angeles residents replace Canadian teen's stolen shoes
PORT ANGELES, Wash. - When someone brandished pepper spray and stole a young Canadian tourist’s shoes last month, community members decided they wanted to make things right. A 16-year-old boy wa...
Nov 05, 2017