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Good rhino news in South Africa, where killing rate drops
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is reporting some cautiously good news for rhinos after years in which poachers killed them in record numbers.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive. Meripet and her husband left the kids with their grandmother at home in China when they went to nurse Meripet's sick father
NewsAssociated PressAnti-India rebels abduct and kill 3 policemen in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Anti-India rebels in disputed Kashmir raided over a dozen homes of police officers and abducted three whose bullet-riddled bodies were recovered Friday, officials said.
NewsAssociated PressLavrov says Russia won't interfere in Bosnia Oct. 7 election
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Russia won't interfere in next month's elections in Bosnia, an ethnically-divided Balkan nation where Moscow maintains strong influence among the country's Serbs, Russia's foreign minister insisted Friday.
NewsAssociated PressNew evacuations ordered because of Florence flooding
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A new round of evacuations was ordered in South Carolina as the trillions of gallons of water dumped by Hurricane Florence meanders to the sea, raising river levels and threatening more destruction.
NewsAssociated PressTrump drops civil tone, slams Kavanaugh accuser credibility
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged by name the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.
FinanceAssociated PressUS stocks head higher, set stage for more milestones
U.S. stocks moved broadly higher in early trading Friday, extending gains from a day earlier when the market climbed to all-time highs. Technology companies accounted for much of the market's gains. Retailers and other consumer-focused stocks also rose. Utilities and other high-dividend paying stocks
NewsAssociated PressJoshua weighs in 11 kilograms heavier than Povetkin
LONDON (AP) — Anthony Joshua has weighed in about 11 kilograms heavier than Alexander Povetkin ahead of their heavyweight title fight in London.
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Turkey says it will patrol north Syria town with US forces
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey will soon conduct joint patrols with U.S. forces in the strategic northern Syrian town of Manbij, once a stronghold of the Islamic State group, a top Turkish official said on Friday
NewsAssociated PressPolish police arrest suspect in rock attack on synagogue
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in the Polish city of Gdansk have detained a 27-year-old man suspected of smashing a synagogue window during the Yom Kippur holiday earlier this week.
FinanceAssociated PressMemory's frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter
Experts say that because of how memory works, it's possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — believe what they say. "
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APNewsBreak: Army misses 2018 recruiting goal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has missed its recruiting goal for the first time in more than a decade.
NewsAssociated PressJapan space rovers lowered to asteroid to collect data
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese spacecraft released two small rovers on an asteroid on Friday in a mission that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.
NewsAssociated PressChina treats Uighur kids as 'orphans' after parents seized
ISTANBUL (AP) — Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive.
TechAssociated PressCongressmen question Google over kids' privacy on YouTube
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two members of Congress are calling on Google to address concerns that YouTube might violate children's privacy.
EntertainmentAssociated PressAP Interview: Chopin contest winner praises old pianos
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The winner of the world's 1st Chopin competition on historic pianos says the search for the original sound restores the appeal of classical music and helps artists understand the composer's intentions.
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Mister Rogers: How the beloved American broadcaster saved children's TV from Richard Nixon
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, an American children’s television institution, was first broadcast on PBS on 21 September 1967. Celebrated in the latest Google Doodle, Fred Rogers’ syndicated show addressed its young audience directly, gently encouraging kids to be “good neighbours” and to acknowledge
NewsAssociated PressRelaxed Bjorn proving a good fit as Ryder Cup captain
The captaincy of Europe's Ryder Cup team has taken Thomas Bjorn to places he never could have imagined.
NewsAssociated PressGerman police question suspect in girl's 2001 disappearance
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Friday that they may have made a breakthrough in their investigation of the mysterious 2001 disappearance of a 9-year-old girl.
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Guatemalan to be sentenced in crash that killed Colts player
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man from Guatemala living illegally in the U.S. is set for sentencing in a drunken driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver.
NewsAssociated PressThe Latest: Pound falls after May says Brexit at 'impasse'
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Brexit, the political divorce between Britain and the rest of the European Union (all times local):
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Economy keeps growing even with rising oil prices
DALLAS (AP) — America's rediscovered prowess in oil production is shaking up old notions about the impact of higher crude prices on the U.S. economy.
FinanceAssociated PressUK leader May hits back after EU trashes her Brexit plan
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May challenged the European Union on Friday to break the "impasse" in Brexit negotiations, fighting back after the bloc threw divorce negotiations into doubt by labeling May's blueprint for leaving the bloc unworkable.
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Queens stabbing: Three infants among five people stabbed at 'illegal' New York day care centre
At least five people, three of them infants, have been stabbed at an in-home daycare centre in New York City, according to police. The stabbings occurred just before 4am in the Flushing neighbourhood, of the Queens borough at what authorities described as a “short-term residential facility” where all
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Chinese minister inaugurates embassy in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has inaugurated his country's embassy in the Dominican Republic almost five months after the two nations established diplomatic relations.
