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French legend Loic Bruni wins the mountain bike world cup in Snowshoe

Bruni, who won his fourth World Championship title last weekend at Mont-Saint-Anne in Canada, has finished this season with a double World Cup win.

USA

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson under fire as Brexit reality hits

Government minister Amber Rudd resigned Saturday, piling more pressure on the increasingly embattled prime minister.

United Kingdom

Thérèse Coffey appointed as new Work and Pensions secretary

After Amber Rudd resigned on Saturday evening, Downing Street announced that Thérèse Coffey would be the new Work and Pensions secretary.

USA

Hong Kong protesters sing U.S. anthem in appeal to Trump to 'liberate' their city

Hong Kong's government promised last week to withdraw the proposed law that triggered a summer of unrest in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

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China's trade with U.S. shrinks as Trump tariff war worsens

U.S. and Chinese negotiators are preparing for talks in October, but neither side has given any sign of offering concessions that might break a deadlock.

USA

US President Donald Trump calls off Afghanistan peace talks

"Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders ... were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday," Trump tweeted.

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'Joker' wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

'Joker' wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

USA

Climate change activists storm red carpet at Venice Film Festival

Several hundred demonstrators took over the red carpet at the event where Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix have premiered their latest films.

USA

Russia and Ukraine conduct prisoner swap, raising hopes for eased tensions

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the exchange would be "a good step" toward the normalization of relations between Moscow and Kiev.

USA

Deal or no deal, Afghans brace for more violence

"I'd be very happy if there is peace but I'm not very optimistic," said a 38-year-old cell phone salesman. "There is fighting all over the country."

USA

Iran breaches nuclear deal again, warns 'not much time left' to save it

Iran has already gone beyond the stockpile and enrichment level limits set by the 2015 agreement with world powers.

USA

Hundreds stranded, 'catastrophic' flooding as Dorian moves off coast

"We went from almost no water to 4 to 6 feet in a matter of minutes," said Steve Harris, who lives on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.

USA

Thousands listed as missing in Bahamas in Hurricane Dorian's wake

"Just waiting hurts us deeply because we don't know what to do, we feel helpless and scared at the same time," one person said.

USA

Celebrity cruise ship reroutes in Bahamas to deliver food, aid after Dorian

The Celebrity Equinox's kitchen staff is preparing 10,000 meals with guests even pitching in to help in the aftermath of the hurricane.

USA

Robert Mugabe, former Zimbabwe president, dead at 95

He was in power since the end of white-minority rule in 1980 and resigned in 2017 following a military coup.

USA

'I've gotta crow': Maurice the French rooster wins courtroom cock fight

Maurice's owner will be able to keep the rooster on the small island of Oleron, off France's Atlantic coast, the court decided.

USA

U.S. woman accused of trying to smuggle baby out of the Philippines faces life in jail

Jennifer Talbot, 42, was arrested early Wednesday attempting to board a flight while concealing a six-day-old baby boy in a carry-on bag.

USA

'The house landed on top of me': Bahamas residents on Dorian's terror

"The roof started to peel off," said a 75-year-old man who fled his house with his wife. "It was unbelievable."

USA

U.S. service member killed in Kabul suicide blast, official says

The service member was killed in a car bomb near the U.S. embassy on Thursday, a U.S. official at the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said.

USA

Lawmaker scolds female economics professor in S. Korea for not having babies

The conservative male lawmaker made the remarks at a confirmation hearing for the female professor's nomination to an antitrust body.