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UK Election Is Full of Dirty Tricks and Political Clicks
Britain is proving a lawless landscape for political mudslingers mining cyberspace for votes in an election that could determine the U.K.’s future relationship with the European Union.
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China Says US Must Cut Tariffs in Trade Deal
Washington must roll back punitive tariffs on Chinese imports if the two sides reach a trade deal, China said Thursday, indicating Beijing is sticking to its position ahead of another possible Dec. 15 duty increase.
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New Zealand Leader Discusses Abortion, Marijuana, Monarchy
During an interview with The Associated Press, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed a range of social issues, including three the nation will make decisions on next year: euthanasia, marijuana use and abortion. But one thing she remained quiet about was her marriage plans.
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UN Climate Talks Aim to Pave Way for Global Carbon Market
On a cold afternoon in late November, Jan Gerrit Otterpohl eyes the chimneys of Berlin?s Heizkraftwerk Mitte, a state-of-the-art power plant that supplies the city with heat and electricity. It?s not the billowing steam he?s interested in, but the largely invisible carbon dioxide that the power station exhales as it burns natural gas.
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58 Migrants Dead After Boat Capsizes Off Mauritania
Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned were receiving care Thursday in Mauritania after one of the deadliest disasters this year among people making the perilous journey to Europe.
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Activists Apologize for Use of Holocaust Victims? Remains
An activist group has apologized to Jewish organizations outraged over their use of purported Holocaust victims? remains in an installation outside Germany?s parliament building meant to draw attention to the perils of far-right extremism.
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Japanese Court Reduces Peruvian?s Death Sentence to Life
A Japanese appeals court reduced on Thursday the death sentence of a Peruvian man convicted of killing six people to life in prison.
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Moon Calls for Chinese Role in Denuclearizing North Korea
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday the global diplomatic push to defuse the nuclear standoff with North Korea is at a ?critical crossroads? and has called for China to continue serving a ?positive role? in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and stabilizing peace.
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Six Rookie QBs Have Already Earned Wins This Season
While Tom Brady and Drew Brees pursue Peyton Manning, Devlin Hodges is chasing Ed Rubbert.
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New Zealand Leader Finds Perfect Spokesman: Stephen Colbert
New Zealand has relied on hobbits, bungy jumping and rugby to entice tourists in the past.