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Putin open for talks with Trump, warns against force on Iran 20 Jun 2019 - 05:35 pm
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New York to get one of world's most ambitious carbon reduction plans 19 Jun 2019 - 11:32 pm
Lower Manhattan including the financial district is pictured from the Manhattan borough of New York, June 1. 2016.  Reuters/Carlo Allegri
Self-help guru convicted in lurid sex-trafficking case 19 Jun 2019 - 07:39 pm
A jury in federal court in Brooklyn took less than five hours to find Keith Raniere guilty on all counts of sex-trafficking and other charges accusing him of coercing women into sex.
Joe Biden under fire from rivals for remarks about civility with segregationists 19 Jun 2019 - 07:39 pm
Barack Obama with Joe Biden in the Rose Garden, White House, March 16, 2016. EPA/Michael Reynolds
Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, need more Western help: UN 19 Jun 2019 - 07:06 pm
Rohingya Muslims live in makeshift camps on hills at Cox Bazar, Bangladesh on September 11, 2017. (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury / Anadolu Agency)
Trump, in 2020 campaign mode, calls Democrats 'radical' 19 Jun 2019 - 05:13 pm
US President Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida to officially launch his 2020 campaign on June 18, 2019. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN
Trump launches re-election campaign, presents himself as outsider and victim 19 Jun 2019 - 11:39 am
US President Donald Trump gestures after a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida to officially launch his 2020 campaign on June 18, 2019. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN
Pompeo: US forces in Persian Gulf just a deterrent 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
In this file photo taken on June 13, 2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the State Department in Washington, DC.  AFP / Eric Baradat
US hospital ship on mission to aid Venezuela refugees 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
US Vice President Mike Pence greets Naval medical staff with his wife Karen as Navy Admiral Craig Faller, right, commander of the U.S. Souther Command looks on as he toured the US Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort on June 18, 2019 in Miami, Florida. Joe Ski
Texas Muslim woman says she was attacked in Starbucks coffee shop for wearing a hijab 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
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Over 16 tons of cocaine intercepted at Philadelphia port 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
Anti-narcotics and Military Police officers prepare for the incineration of more than 200 kilos of cocaine seized in El Salvador (AFP)
Canada's Trudeau mending fences with Trump as election fight looms 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
For Justin Trudeau, Thursday's meeting with Trump still has risks about four months before a Canadian national election. Trump is deeply unpopular in Canada, especially among supporters of Trudeau's Liberal Party, and notoriously unpredictable.
Shanahan's Pentagon rise upended by painful family past 18 Jun 2019 - 11:05 pm
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan fires a modified painted ball gun that shoots pepper balls during a tour of the US-Mexico border at Santa Teresa Station in Sunland Park, New Mexico, February 23, 2019. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool via Reuters
'Baby' found dead near park turns out to be realistic doll 18 Jun 2019 - 09:09 pm
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Canadian man gets 26 years for role in suicide attack 18 Jun 2019 - 09:09 pm
The sentence came over the objections of several family members of the soldiers, who appeared in Brooklyn federal court and demanded Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Charitable giving by individual Americans drops in 2018 18 Jun 2019 - 06:31 pm
A homeless man asks for money outside a donut shop during white-out blizzard-like conditions in a snow storm in Boston, February 9, 2017. Reuters/Brian Snyder
Trump threatens to deport millions beginning next week 18 Jun 2019 - 02:12 pm
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Venezuela receives second shipment of Red Cross aid 18 Jun 2019 - 09:57 am
A worker unloads generators received as part of humanitarian aid through the Venezuelan Red Cross in Caracas, Venezuela on June 17, 2019. / AFP / YURI CORTEZ