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White House defends Trump's walk-back of Russia comments

Speaking at the White House briefing for the first time in more than two weeks due to President Trump's travels, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Mr. Trump's claim that he misspoke at Monday's press conference with Russian…

Wildfires rage in Sweden amid intense Nordic heat wave

A fire vehicle is seen as fire burns in Karbole, Sweden, on July 15, 2018. Mats Andersson/AFP/Getty Images HELSINKI -- Sweden says it has mobilized all available resources to put out dozens of wildfires raging across the country. Thousands of…

Nicaraguan forces violently retake symbolic area from protesters

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan police and armed pro-government civilians on Tuesday laid siege to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on Masaya's…

Lab-grown meat could be in restaurants by 2021

The world's first lab-grown beef burger is seen after it was cooked at a launch event in west London on Aug. 5, 2013. Reuters BERLIN -- A Dutch company that presented the world's first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said…

Former President Obama's full speech in South Africa

Former President Barack Obama weighed in with his perspective on the "strange and uncertain times that we are in" as he delivered a major address in South Africa Tuesday. Mr. Obama was invited to give the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture…

Nicaraguan forces lay siege to symbolic city

Nicaraguan national police and armed pro-government civilians laid siege to a symbolically important neighborhood that has recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on the Monimbo neighborhood in the city of Masaya…

U.S., U.N. blast Nicaraguan gov't as protest deaths mounts

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Families began burying the dead Monday following a bloody weekend in Nicaragua as police and paramilitary groups attacked roadblocks set up by anti-government demonstrators demanding President Daniel Ortega's exit from office. The family and friends of 20-year-old…

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