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New Zealand political leader taped speaking inappropriately
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 17th - 12:21am
New Zealand's opposition leader has been secretly recorded calling one of his own lawmakers "f---ing useless" and making other questionable remarks as turmoil in the conservative National Party escalated.
Taliban warn teachers, students to avoid Afghan polls
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 11:34pm
The Taliban have warned teachers and students not to participate in Afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary elections and not to allow schools to be used as polling centers.
The Latest: 3 combatants dead in fighting in Kashmir city
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 11:22pm
The Latest on clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir (all times local):
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The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 10:41pm
America's top diplomat is on his way to Turkey, where an official says police searching the Saudi Consulate found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there. The comment by the official to The Associated Press and Pompeo's visit Wednesday intensifies pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi. The Washington Post columnist vanished Oct. 2 while visiting the consulate to pick up paperwork he needed to get married.
Canada to pardon pot possession as it legalizes marijuana
Rob Gillies and Gene Johnson, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 10:15pm
The Canadian government is ready to pardon those with a pot possession record of 30 grams or less after Canada becomes the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace Wednesday.
Gaza rocket hits home in Israel, military strikes back
Aron Heller, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 10:09pm
A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising tensions.
Rocket from Gaza makes direct hit on residential home in southern Israel, no casualties
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 10:01pm
Rocket from Gaza makes direct hit on residential home in southern Israel, no casualties.
Pompeo heads to Turkey as probe into Khashoggi case heats up
Suzan Fraser and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 9:46pm
Police searching the Saudi Consulate found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there, a high-level Turkish official said, as America's top diplomat flew to the country on Wednesday to discuss the probe.
Fighting in Kashmir's main city leaves 3 combatants dead
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 9:39pm
Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two suspected rebels and a counterinsurgency police official.
Pakistan executes man convicted of killing 8 children
Zaheer Babar, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 8:36pm
A man convicted of killing eight children was executed at a Pakistani prison early Wednesday after the country's top court rejected a request for his public hanging, officials said.
US defense secretary sees the enduring costs of Vietnam War
Robert Burns, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 8:02pm
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is getting a firsthand look at the enduring costs of fighting the Vietnam War.
5-month-old (with parents' help) attempts to become youngest person to visit all 50 states
Faith Karimi, CNN | Posted Oct 16th - 7:36pm
Harper Yeats dipped her tiny toes in the ocean for the first time in Charleston, South Carolina. She tasted her first solid food in Anchorage, Alaska. On Thursday, she'll mark yet another travel milestone with a stop in Vermont: She'll have visited all 50 states of the USA.
Weeping relatives receive bodies of South Korean climbers
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 7:16pm
Relatives dressed in black funeral suits wept in grief on Wednesday as the bodies of five South Korean mountain climbers arrived home from Nepal where they had died in a storm last week.
Canadian official says government to pardon those with a pot possession record of 30 grams or less
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 6:06pm
Canadian official says government to pardon those with a pot possession record of 30 grams or less.
UN approves resolution enabling Palestinians to chair group
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 6:05pm
The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that will enable the Palestinians to chair the major group of developing countries at the United Nations in 2019, ignoring objections from the United States and Israel.
Brazil's Temer charged with corruption, money laundering
Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 5:38pm
Brazil's federal police filed new charges against President Michel Temer on Tuesday, recommending he be put on trial for corruption, money laundering and criminal association for allegedly taking bribes to favor port management companies.
Brazil's federal police bring new corruption charges against President Michel Temer
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 5:36pm
Brazil's federal police bring new corruption charges against President Michel Temer.
Confessed killer of Mexican women ordered held for trial
The Associated Press | Posted Oct 16th - 4:46pm
A Mexican man and his female companion were ordered held in prison Tuesday pending trial in the killing of a woman, though the man has confessed to murdering at least nine more and even claimed to have sold their bones.
