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Ousted Pakistani premier Sharif sentenced to 10 years in prison   Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam, widely seen as his political heir, gets a seven-year term for her involvement in the corruption case that centred around the...

Bomb at market in Thailand's south kills three, wounds 22   A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand's southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 22, a spokesman for the Internal...

Building collapses in Marseille, no word on casualties Local mayor Sabine Bernasconi said the collapsed building was in poor condition and had been subject to an evacuation order, but she could not rule out that...

London secret "mail rail" line to reopen for public   The hidden tunnels first opened in 1927 and were used to carry post, but will now become a tourist attraction. A secret underground railway below London is...

London police investigating terrorist incident on subway train, multiple riders injured   London Metropolitan Police are investigating a terror incident after what an eyewitness called a "minor explosion" took place on a subway train at the...

Trump cancels North Korean summit, citing 'tremendous anger'   US President Donald Trump called the cancelled summit "a missed opportunity" and said someday he still hoped to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. A man walks past...

Mammoth task: billionaire Peter Thiel funded effort to resurrect woolly beast Olivia Solon   The Silicon Valley titan, who has openly challenged death as an inevitability, invested $100,000 in a project to bring the extinct mammoth...

UN warns of mass famine in Yemen over Saudi blockade of aid   United Nations (United States) – Yemen is facing a mass famine that will affect millions of lives unless the Saudi-led coalition ends its...

US imposes steel, aluminum tariffs on EU, Canada, Mexico   The move has angered the EU as well as Mexico, who have threatened to retaliate against the US measure. The tariffs come into effect on Friday. Rolled...

Trump offers reassurance that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un would remain in power under nuclear deal by David Nakamura and Philip Rucker   https://youtu.be/D-krssZS5xM President Trump said at the White House May 17, “The Libya model isn’t...