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    September 5, 2018
    British Prime Minister Theresa May departs No. 10 Downing Street in London on June 20, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Luke MacGregor.
    Nerve agent poisoning: British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russian intelligence officers carried out attack on ex-spy in Salisbury
    LONDON - British authorities on Wednesday named two Russian suspects wanted for a brazen nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter...
    news/worldSeptember 5, 2018 - 10:25am
    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from left, meets Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and other North Korean officials at the airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, July 6, 2018. North Korea pressed its demand on Aug. 17, 2018, that the United States agree to declare an end to the 1950-53 Korean War, as South Korea’s leader indicated that Pompeo was preparing for his fourth visit to the North. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
    South Korean envoys hold first talks in North after US halted Pompeo visit
    TOKYO - South Korean envoys delivered a letter from their president to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday in preparation for a planned...
    news/worldSeptember 5, 2018 - 8:24am
    Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi at the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Alex Kraus.
    Deadly protests rage in Iraq over lack of services as political transition deadlocks
    BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities were bracing for a fresh round of violent protests on Wednesday after security forces killed six demonstrators over...
    news/worldSeptember 5, 2018 - 7:17am
    August 28, 2018
    Pope Francis, seen here in January in Santiago, Chile, has been accused by a former Vatican ambassador of covering up sexual abuse. That ambassador -- Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò demanded that Francis step down. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Tamara Merino
    With call for pope to resign, divisions within the Catholic Church explode into view
    DUBLIN -- Pope Francis has long faced criticism from traditionalists - a group that includes academics as well as cardinals - who say the church...
    news/worldAugust 28, 2018 - 8:11am
    August 27, 2018
    Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl at the St. Anthony Chapel Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in 2015. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Brittany Greeson
    Demands for church reform intensify after letter accusing Pope Francis of sex abuse coverup
    WASHINGTON - In the wake of a summer of sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, topped this weekend with an explosive letter alleging that...
    news/worldAugust 27, 2018 - 7:49pm
    August 21, 2018
    Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, arrives to testify at a joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2018. The social network removed over 600 fake accounts and pages – originating from Iran and Russia – linked to influence campaigns that were disseminating false news around the world. (Tom Brenner/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Sprawling Iranian influence operation globalizes tech's war on disinformation
    Iran was behind a sprawling disinformation operation on Facebook that targeted hundreds of thousands of people around the world, the social media...
    news/worldAugust 21, 2018 - 9:44pm
    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) and Aung San Suu Kyi at a meeting in Ottawa on June 7, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by David Kawai.
    A year after the assault on the Rohingya, Myanmar's generals are unapologetic
    SINGAPORE - A year ago, the Myanmar military embarked on a massive crackdown in restive Rakhine state - driving out almost a million Rohingya...
    news/worldAugust 21, 2018 - 9:49am
    August 19, 2018
    King Edward II was known for his close relationships with two men. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
    'The king and his husband': The gay history of British royals
    Ordinarily, the wedding of a junior member of the British royal family wouldn't attract much global attention. But Lord Ivar Mountbatten's has....
    news/worldAugust 19, 2018 - 11:00am
    August 18, 2018
    Kofi Annan was secretary-general of the United Nations from 1996 to 2006. Bloomberg photo by Chris Ratcliffe
    Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, dies at 80
    Kofi Annan of Ghana, whose popular and influential reign as secretary general of the United Nations was marred by White House anger at his opposition...
    news/worldAugust 18, 2018 - 10:17am
    August 16, 2018
    The remains of the Morandi motorway bridge stands after it partially collapsed in Genoa, Italy, on Aug. 15, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Federico Bernini.
    Resignations sought over collapsed bridge in Italy
    ROME - After one of the deadliest structural failures in modern Italy, government officials took aim Wednesday at the company operating a bridge...
    news/worldAugust 16, 2018 - 7:39am
    August 14, 2018
    Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
    At least 35 people dead after highway bridge collapses in Italian city
    A highway bridge collapsed over Genoa, Italy, on Tuesday morning, causing people, cars and huge chunks of concrete to fall hundreds of feet onto...
    news/worldAugust 14, 2018 - 4:12pm
    London police: Car rampage outside Westminister treated as 'terrorist incident'
    LONDON - A man crashed his car into security barriers outside Britain's Houses of Parliament during Tuesday morning's rush hour, injuring three...
    news/worldAugust 14, 2018 - 9:07am
    August 8, 2018
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    A shaman kept a woman trapped in an Indonesian cave for 15 years, police say
    The girl was only 13 when she disappeared. Her parents had taken her to a shaman near their home in rural Indonesia for treatment and left her...
    news/worldAugust 8, 2018 - 3:30pm
    August 7, 2018
    An aerial view shows Mount Everest, also known as the Sagarmatha, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Adeel Halim.
    Mount Everest is a 'fecal time bomb.' Here's one man's idea for handling 14 tons of human waste.
    Every year, some 1,200 people make a mad dash for the summit of Mount Everest during the climbing season that begins in May - taking on the arduous,...
    news/worldAugust 7, 2018 - 5:08pm
    FILE -- John Bolton, Trump' national security adviser, walks out of the Rose Garden after President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in Washington, June 7, 2018. The conflicting expectations of North Korea's disarmament expressed by John Bolton, the national security adviser, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reflect the strain inside the administration over how to match promises with realism. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
    North Korea has not taken steps to denuclearize, John Bolton says
    National security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that North Korea has not made progress toward denuclearization, in a dismal acknowledgment...
    news/worldAugust 7, 2018 - 1:06pm
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