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At UN, Trump threatens 'total destruction' of North Korea

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 17:48 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly, threatened the "total destruction'" of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear...

London attack: Commuters head back to work; two men in custody

Monday, 18 September 2017, 10:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

British police are still holding two suspects in custody over the London subway blast as commuters head to work Monday in the first morning rush hour since the attack. Authorities have reduced...

Dozens arrested as St. Louis readies for more protests

Monday, 18 September 2017, 08:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Hundreds of police officers in full riot gear responded to the streets of downtown St. Louis after another day of peaceful demonstrations over a former police officer's acquittal in the death of a...

UK police arrest 2nd man in London subway attack case

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 13:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

London police say a second man has been arrested in connection with the London subway attack. Police said Sunday that a 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in west London...

Defiant N. Korea leader says he will complete nuke program

Saturday, 16 September 2017, 12:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of "equilibrium" in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North's...

Ryanair to cancel 40-50 flights per day for six weeks

Saturday, 16 September 2017, 11:50 Last update: about 10 years ago

Ryanair has announced that it would cancel 40-50 flights daily for the next six weeks (to the end of October) to improve its system-wide punctuality which has fallen below 80% in the first two weeks...

Updated (4): Improvised bomb injures 22 on London subway train

Friday, 15 September 2017, 10:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A homemade bomb exploded on a packed London subway train during rush hour on Friday, leaving 22 people injured, police and health officials said. None of the injured is thought to be seriously hurt....

Jitters in Europe as Russia-Belarus war games get underway

Friday, 15 September 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Russia and Belarus began major war games Thursday, an operation involving thousands of troops, tanks and aircraft on NATO's eastern edge practicing how to hunt down and destroy armed spies, among...

North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight

Friday, 15 September 2017, 07:29 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of...

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