Trump, on U.S.-North Korea talks, says both sides know the issues

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Friday that his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi had been "substantive," adding, "We know what they want and they know what we must have."

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EU ready to give Britain more guarantees 'backstop' is temporary: Barnier

The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish "backstop" is only intended to be temporary, the bloc's chief Brexit negotiator said on Friday.

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Lula's attorneys to seek temporary release after death of grandson

Lawyers for Brazil's former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said on Friday they will ask courts to release him temporarily from jail so he can attend the funeral of his 7-year-old grandson who died hours earlier.

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Rights groups urge release of more Nicaragua prisoners

Human rights advocates on Friday urged Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to free 566 people still in custody that the opposition considers political prisoners following an initial release of detainees from a simmering political crisis.

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Algerian protest, stampede leaves at least one dead in capital: source

One person was killed on Friday in the Algerian capital during a stampede as police and protesters clashed, an informed source said.

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Yazidis freed from Islamic State captivity in Syria, returned to Iraq

A group of Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday after more than four years in Islamic State captivity.

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U.S.-backed Syrian force attacks final IS enclave

U.S.-backed forces launched an attack on Friday to evict Islamic State from its last territorial bastion and seal four years of international efforts to roll back a "caliphate" that redrew the map of the Middle East.

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U.S. revokes visas of 49 people aligned with Venezuela's Maduro: State Department

The United States on Friday revoked the visas of 49 individuals aligned with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to the State Department, a move intended to pressure Maduro to step down.

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Southern Yemenis warn exclusion from U.N. peace talks could trigger new conflict

A separatist leader from south Yemen said a U.N.-mediated peace deal that fails to address the south’s wish for self-determination would be "dangerous" and could trigger a new conflict.

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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket and astronaut capsule

The new combination could be approved to carry people if the mission is successful.

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SpaceX rocket with unmanned U.S. capsule blasts off for space station

A SpaceX rocket with an unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk’s space company and NASA's long-delayed goal to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil later this year.

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U.S. safety agencies to investigate fatal Tesla crash in Florida

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said they are sending teams to investigate a fatal crash in Florida on Friday involving a Tesla Inc car and a semi-trailer.

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Mountain lion strangled by Colorado man was orphaned cougar cub

The mountain lion strangled by a Colorado man after it attacked him on a jogging trail last month was a young cub, weighing no more than 40 pounds (18 kg) and likely orphaned but not starving, state wildlife officials said on Friday.

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Manafort seeks sentence well below guidelines in Virginia case

Lawyers for Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, asked a federal judge in Virginia on Friday to hand down a sentence that is significantly below sentencing guidelines, according to a court filing.

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