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Trump-Kim summit in Malta? Search is on for the best venue

Saturday, 10 March 2018, 07:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev will always...

Slovakia goes from stability to chaos after journalist death

Friday, 9 March 2018, 11:12 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Slovakia has quickly turned from what seemed to be a stable European Union country into chaos, in the wake of the unprecedented slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. In a...

Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un

Friday, 9 March 2018, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's...

Catholic women challenge pope for greater voice

Thursday, 8 March 2018, 16:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Catholic women are challenging Pope Francis to give women a greater voice in Catholic Church decision-making, warning that they are leaving the church in droves because its all-male leadership refuses...

Alabama: 1 student dead, another hurt in school shooting

Thursday, 8 March 2018, 07:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Authorities said they are investigating a fatal shooting at an Alabama high school as apparently accidental, lamenting the death of a 17-year-old female student in the incident that also left a...

Porn star sues Trump over nondisclosure agreement

Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 07:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A porn star who has said she had sex with President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election,...

Russian plane crash in Syria kills 39 servicemen

Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 20:32 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A Russian military cargo plane crashed near an air base in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 39 Russian servicemen on board in a blow to Russian operations in Syria. The Russian military quickly insisted...

Italy's populist parties rule the day, but will they rule?

Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 12:11 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Italy's voters have spoken, and the populists ruled the day. But whether these euroskeptics can put aside their distrust and rivalries to rule together was the big question Monday as the nation...

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