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Martha Stewart flashes middle finger toward Trump portrait
NEW YORK - Martha Stewart has given a glimpse of her feelings toward her former reality TV rival, President Donald Trump. A photo shared on social media show Stewart standing between large portraits o...
May 08, 2017
Chipping away at EU: Banksy's take on Brexit seen in Dover
LONDON - The street artist Banksy has let the world know his take on Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Banksy has created a large mural in the British port of Dover showing a workm...
May 08, 2017
French President-elect Macron gears up for challenges ahead
PARIS - French President-elect Emmanuel Macron laid the groundwork Monday for his transition to power, announcing a visit to Germany and a name change for his political movement and appearing with his...
May 08, 2017
Appeals court to weigh challenge to revised Trump travel ban
RICHMOND, Va. - After a series of stinging legal defeats, President Donald Trump’s administration hopes to convince a federal appeals court that his travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority coun...
May 08, 2017
1 million children refugees from South Sudan's civil war
NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 1 million children have fled South Sudan’s civil war, two United Nations agencies said Monday, part of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Another 1 mill...
May 08, 2017
Gas leak in coal mine in central China kills 18 miners
BEIJING - A gas leak in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 people, local authorities said Monday. The leak happened on Sunday morning when miners were working in the shaft of the mine in Youxi...
May 08, 2017
Prime minister says IS fighter's son can return to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - A 6-year-old Australian boy photographed making an Islamic State movement salute in front of a human body hanging from a cross somewhere in the Middle East was entitled to return...
May 08, 2017
Indonesia to disband hard-line Islamic group Hizbut
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The top Indonesian security minister said Monday the country’s president has ordered the dissolution of a hard-line Islamic group that seeks a global caliphate for Muslim na...
May 08, 2017
Watchdog says Vietnamese officials bribed by log smugglers
BANGKOK - An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighbouring Cambodia. Millions of doll...
May 08, 2017
Nations critique Filipino leader's rights record at UN body
GENEVA - A Filipino senator briskly defended the human rights record of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government before a U.N. body on Monday, saying his government always “seeks to uphold t...
May 08, 2017