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"Extremely Regrettable": North Korea Says Still Open To Talks With US

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday May 25, 2018

North Korea on Friday said it was still willing to talk to the United States after President Donald Trump cancelled a summit between the two countries, a decision Pyongyang described as "extremely regrettable".

Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova Poised For French Open Last-16 Clash

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2018

Former world number one Williams, now ranked a lowly 453, is playing a Grand Slam for the first time since she won her 23rd major at the 2017 Australian Open after which she stepped off the tour to give birth to her daughter in September.

China Says Finds No Clues To Explain US Sonic Incident

World News | Reuters | Thursday May 24, 2018

China has found no clues to explain what happened to an American citizen working at a US consulate who reported suffering from "abnormal" sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Emmanuel Macron In Russia For High-Stakes Talks With Vladimir Putin

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Saint Petersburg on Thursday to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, with the Iran nuclear deal as well as conflicts in Syria and Ukraine on the agenda.

US Demands Two Venezuelan Diplomats Leave Within 48 Hours: State Department

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2018

The United States has ordered two top Venezuelan diplomats to leave its territory within 48 hours, the State Department said Wednesday, responding to Caracas's expulsion order against the top two US diplomats there.

Meet At A Table Or In Nuclear-To-Nuclear Showdown, North Korea Warns US

World News | Anna Fifield, The Washington Post | Thursday May 24, 2018

North Korea is threatening to reconsider Kim Jong Un's participation in a summit with President Donald Trump next month, saying that it is up to the United States to decide whether it wants to "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown."

India Launches World Trade Organization Challenge Over US Steel, Aluminium Tariffs

India News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 23, 2018

India has opened a World Trade Organization challenge against the steel and aluminium tariffs imposed by the United States, a document circulated to WTO members on Wednesday said.

Mike Pompeo Says "Bad Deal With North Korea Not An Option" For US

World News | Reuters | Wednesday May 23, 2018

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States is prepared to walk away from negotiations with North Korea if upcoming talks on its nuclear weapons program head in the wrong direction.

Court Orders 30-Year-Old's Eviction From Parents' Home. "Outrageous," He Says

Offbeat | Marwa Eltagouri, The Washington Post | Wednesday May 23, 2018

Michael Rotondo refuses to move out of his parents' house. So much so that the 30-year-old argued for a half-hour with a judge in Upstate New York on Tuesday, saying that while he knew his parents wanted him out of their split-level ranch, he was entitled - as a family member - to six months' notice before an eviction.

Black Candidate Makes History As Women Advance In US Midterms

World News | Reuters | Wednesday May 23, 2018

In Georgia, history was already being written as Abrams became the first black female in the United States to win a major party's nomination for governor, according to the Gender Watch project, a nonpartisan group tracking elections.

North Korea Preps Nuclear Site Demolition Despite US Summit Doubts

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 23, 2018

Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime's nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen.

US Congress Sends "Right To Try" Experimental Drug Bill To President Donald Trump

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 23, 2018

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to expand terminally ill patients' right to try experimental drugs not yet approved by US authorities, a controversial move that enjoys support from President Donald Trump.

US Businessman Gets 9 Years In Jail For Selling Diseased Human Body Parts

World News | Reuters | Wednesday May 23, 2018

A Detroit businessman who sold and leased human body parts was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday for selling diseased remains to medical educators.

Baby Power Helping Fund ISIS In Afghanistan. It Ends Up In US, Europe

World News | Reuters | Wednesday May 23, 2018

ISIS fighters in Afghanistan are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from illegal mining of talc, much of which ends up in the United States and Europe, advocacy group Global Witness reported on Tuesday.

Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit In Play As Moon Jae-In Visits White House

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May 22, 2018

Donald Trump holds a high-stakes meeting with South Korea's president at the White House Tuesday, talks that could decide whether the US president's much-vaunted summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Un goes ahead.