"Like Versailles": Mexicans marvel as presidents' home opened to public

Dazzled Mexicans filed into the opulent residence of their presidents on Saturday, when the new government threw open its doors in a highly symbolic moment one visitor likened to entering the Palace of Versailles in the French Revolution.

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Pentagon chief slams 'slow learner' Putin over election meddling

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday of being a "slow learner" who again tried to meddle in U.S. elections in November, adding that he had no trust in the Russian leader.

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New G20 chair Japan wants trade imbalances, aging population on 2019 agenda

Japan will put issues ranging from global trade imbalances to the impact of aging populations on the agenda when it chairs next year's meetings of leaders from the Group of 20 major economies, government officials said.

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Putin says no talks with Ukraine about release of sailors

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday there had been no discussion with Ukraine about the possible release of the Ukrainian sailors who were seized along with their ships by Russia last month.

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G20: US and China agree to suspend new trade tariffs

Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agree to halt new trade tariffs for 90 days.

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HS2 chairman expects to be sacked after Crossrail delays

Sir Terry Morgan tells the BBC he expects to be sacked within days, months after getting the job.

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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas marry in India

The Bollywood superstar and the US singer got engaged earlier this year.

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Why is a refugee family hiding in a church in the Netherlands?

A small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family.

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Trump and Putin: Have they had their last tango?

Presidents Trump and Putin were at the G20 in Buenos Aires.

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France fuel protests: Tear gas and water cannon used in Paris

Clashes between police and protesters broke out in Paris before the official demonstration even began.

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Iran’s Chain Murders: A wave of killings that shook a nation

How the brutal killing of an elderly couple in Iran 20 years ago exposed a series of murders spanning a decade.

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Why some see Chile's plastic bag ban as a rubbish proposal

Chile has banned stores from handing out free plastic bags to shoppers and it is a headache for some.

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The Ugandan love of grasshoppers - and how to harvest them

It is grasshopper season in Uganda, where they are seen as a nutritious delicacy - either boiled or deep-fried.

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'Hakuna Matata' and other unlikely trademarked phrases

Some in Kenya have taken offence at Disney's use of the Swahili phrase for Lion King merchandise.

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Alabama defeats Georgia, 35-28, securing the top seed in the four-team college football championship tournament

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George H.W. Bush to lie in state at the Capitol starting Monday; the public is invited to pay their respects until Wednesday mor

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Former President George H.W. Bush dead at 94

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, died on Friday at the age of 94.

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Reporter's notebook: A president perpetually in motion

White House reporters saw in George H.W. Bush a U.S. president who was a perpetual motion machine and a frequent flyer to far-flung places who took all kinds of questions, loved sports and said some of the darndest things.

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Bush's single White House term shaped U.S. history for decades

WASHINGTON - He was president for only four years, but George H.W. Bush shaped U.S. history for decades, taking on tough jobs from Beijing to the CIA, ousting Iraqi forces from Kuwait, sealing a breakthrough budget deal that cost him an election and fathering a future president.

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N.Y. judge strikes down policy tying funds to immigration compliance

The Trump administration cannot compel states and cities to cooperate with federal immigration authorities as a condition for receiving millions of dollars in federal law enforcement funds, a New York federal judge ruled on Friday.

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Powerful quake rattles Anchorage, hitting roads, bridges hardest

A powerful earthquake jolted southern Alaska on Friday morning, buckling roads, disrupting rush-hour traffic and jamming telephone service in and around Anchorage, the state's largest city, but there were no reports of serious injuries.

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Caravan migrants in Mexico fill new border shelter after rains force exodus

Hundreds of mostly Central American migrants poured into a new shelter on Friday as bus loads fled a filthy, flooded sports complex on the eve of a presidential inauguration in Mexico that could recast the border crisis with U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Ex-Dallas officer who shot man in his home charged with murder

A former Dallas police officer was charged with murder on Friday for shooting an unarmed black neighbor whose apartment she said she mistakenly entered instead of her own, prosecutors said.

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U.S. to conduct additional Keystone XL pipeline review

The U.S. State Department will conduct another environmental review of TransCanada Corp's long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that could lead to additional delays of the project.

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Whitaker knew of fraud complaints while at World Patent Marketing: documents

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was aware of fraud allegations against an invention promotion company where he was an advisor and was slow to respond to government investigators probing it, documents released on Friday show.

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