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8 Oct 2017
Police detain more than 200 opposition activists on Saturday for taking part in a wave of anti-Kremlin protests across Russia, according to a monitoring group.
8 Oct 2017
During a visit to Puerto Rico to survey the damage from Hurricane Maria, a man confront Vice President Mike Pence to tell him he's angry with the federal response.
8 Oct 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump says “only one thing will work” in dealing with North Korea after previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang without results.
8 Oct 2017
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen visited Las Vegas on Saturday days after a gunman opened fire on a country music festival killing 58 people.
8 Oct 2017
Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Spain in pro-unity rallies, as political tensions rise over calls for Catalonian independence.
8 Oct 2017
Hurricane Nate may strengthen on Saturday, threatening to hit the U.S. central Gulf Coast with strong winds and storm surges.
7 Oct 2017
Danish police said on Saturday they have found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine.
7 Oct 2017
North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, a Russian lawmaker just returned from a visit to Pyongyang was quoted as saying.
7 Oct 2017
Storm hits Costa Rica, killing 9 and causes landslides.
7 Oct 2017
The United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began, its humanitarian aid chief says.
7 Oct 2017
Syrian forces bombard areas close to Damascus.
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