Hong Kong leader to meet media after killing extradition bill

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is expected to address the media on Thursday, a day after she withdrew a controversial extradition bill that has triggered mass protests and plunged the Chinese territory into its worst political crisis in decades.

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Venezuela's Armed Forces Bank slams Mastercard for halting card service

A Venezuelan bank run by the troubled country's military on Wednesday slammed Mastercard for cutting off service to the bank's credit cards following U.S. sanctions against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

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South Carolina scrambles ahead of Dorian's storm surge

A large digital screen alongside a major highway running into Charleston, South Carolina, issued a stark warning to residents on Wednesday: 'HURRICANE DORIAN, LEAVE NOW."

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Sharpie-gate? Trump shows apparently altered hurricane map

U.S. President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path on Wednesday that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in harm's way.

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California boat fire investigators interview captain, crew

Federal investigators on Wednesday interviewed the captain and crew of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast and they also met with families of 34 people killed in one of the state's worst maritime disasters.

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The mixed children Belgium took from their mothers under colonial rule

Luc Van Damme was two when taken from his Rwandan mother under a colonial ban on mixed families.

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Chinese paper says HK demonstrators now have no excuse for violence

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that had sparked widespread protests was an olive branch that leaves demonstrators with no excuse to continue violence, the official China Daily said on Thursday.

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Former first lady of Honduras sentenced to 58 years in jail

The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of ex-president Porfirio Lobo, was sentenced on Wednesday to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds, a spokesman for the nation's highest court said.

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Texas executes man convicted of murdering 89-year-old woman and her elderly daughter

A man convicted of killing an 89-year-old woman and her elderly daughter in their Fort Worth home in 2003 was put to death by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday.

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Sharpie-gate? Trump shows apparently altered hurricane map

U.S. President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path on Wednesday that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in harm's way.

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Explainer: How important is Hong Kong to the rest of China?

Concerns over Hong Kong's political and economic future are growing as pro-democracy protests drag on and turn increasingly violent, and China makes clear that forceful intervention is possible.

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Hurricane Dorian heads for Florida, leaving ruins in parts of Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling on Tuesday to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis as the scale of the catastrophe begins to emerge.

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Huawei accuses US of cyber-attacks and threats to staff

The Chinese tech giant, at the heart of a US-China power struggle, gave no evidence for its allegations.

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Hurricane Dorian heads for Florida, leaving ruins in parts of Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling on Tuesday to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis as the scale of the catastrophe begins to emerge.

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The 'code of silence' killing US police officers

Suicide rates among US police are on the rise. But it's long been an unspoken reality of the job. Why?

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Karachi's Clifton Beach swamped by syringes and medical waste

Pakistani authorities cordon off a Karachi beach after it was strewn with medical waste.

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What do you do when a colleague dies?

How should firms plan for the death of a worker, when the topic is often taboo?

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Pope Francis in Africa: Is the continent the Catholic Church's great hope?

Pope Francis begins a three-nation visit to Africa later on Wednesday, his fourth to the continent as pontiff.

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Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance'

Why the residents of the first free town of the Americas are teaching their children Palenquero.

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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?

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Hurricane Dorian: Death toll rises in Bahamas

Prime Minister Hubert Minnis says the country can "expect more deaths" after the devastating storm.

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Multiple deaths in fatal bus crash in New Zealand

Rescue efforts are underway in New Zealand where several people are feared dead after a bus carrying more than 20 people rolled over on a busy highway amid bad weather.

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