USA-and-Canada
Mom charged with torture denied mental health diversion
Riverside, Oct 6 (AP/UNB) — A Southern California judge on Friday denied a request by a woman charged with the torture and abuse of most of her 13 children to be considered for a mental health diversion program, authorities said.
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Suspect in model's death told cop they fought over cocaine
Ardmore, Oct 6 (AP/UNB) — A man accused in the strangulation death of a model said that he went to her apartment in an affluent Philadelphia suburb to sell her cocaine but that she refused to pay, and that a violent fight ensued, according to a statement read in court Friday.
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Man charged after toxic letters sent to Trump, other leaders
Salt Lake City, Oct 6 (AP/UNB) — A Navy veteran was charged Friday with threatening to use a biological toxin as a weapon by sending letters to President Donald Trump and other leaders containing ground castor beans, the substance from which the poison ricin is derived.
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Trump slams Democrats for 'rage-fueled resistance'
Rochester, Oct 5 (AP/UNB) — Seeking to boost Republican turnout in key Minnesota battlegrounds, President Donald Trump attacked Democrats Thursday night, arguing that their "rage-fueled resistance" to his Supreme Court nominee will motivate GOP voters this fall.
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Melania Trump promotes US agency, Trump wants to cut funding
Lilongwe, Oct 5 (AP/UNB) — Melania Trump spent Thursday in southern Africa promoting the work of a U.S. international development agency whose funding President Donald Trump has twice proposed slashing by nearly a third. Lawmakers essentially ignored those requests.
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UK and Australia blame Russian unit GRU for cyberattacks
London, Oct 4 (AP/UNB)— British and Australian officials said on Thursday the Russian military intelligence unit GRU is behind a wave of global cyberattacks.
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Seven US police shot in deadly stand-off
Florence, Oct 04 (AP/UNB) — Seven South Carolina law enforcement officers were shot Wednesday, one fatally, in a confrontation with a man who held children hostage as he fired on the officers, officials said.
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Canada revokes Myanmar leader's honorary citizenship
Ottawa, Oct 3 (AP/UNB) — Canada's Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar's Rohingya people.
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Melania Trump forges ahead as first lady with Africa trip
Washington, Oct 2 (AP/UNB) — With a wave and tweet, first lady Melania Trump headed for Africa on Monday on her first big solo international trip, aiming to make child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour that will take her to every corner of the vast and impoverished continent.
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Trump dominated UN, but US nationalism at odds with world
United Nations, Oct 2 (AP/UNB) — U.S. President Donald Trump dominated this year's gathering of global leaders that ended Monday, but his rejection of "the ideology of globalism" left America almost singlehandedly holding a nationalist banner against urgent calls from an overwhelming number countries for the world to work together.
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