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BISMARCK, N.D. — The Standing Rock Sioux’s tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says many of the several hundred gathered will remain on federal land without a permit. The council voted 8-5 Tuesday to use the reservation land

Donald Trump’s guests at Wednesday’s presidential debate in Las Vegas will include President Obama’s Kenyan-born half-brother, the mother of a Benghazi victim, Wayne Newton and other surprises, according to the Republican nominee’s campaign. Pat Smith, the mother of a State Department IT consultant who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, told Yahoo News earlier this week that she planned to accept Trump’s invitation to the debate. Smith spoke in July at the Republican National Convention... Читать дальше...

Former USSR leader and ex-U.S. president discuss bilateral issues on phone

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ex-U.S. President George H. W. Bush intend to contribute to normalizing the relations between Russia and the United States, the Gorbachev Foundation press office told TASS on Oct. 19.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's ugly and acrimonious battle for the White House is barreling toward the end, with the candidates taking the debate stage tonight for one final primetime showdown.

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In the tiny town of Nagoro, Japan, 66-year-old Tsukimi Ayano is hard at work creating an incredibly involved arts-and-crafts project.

Propped up around Nagoro are roughly 115 life-sized dolls, each arranged in a different fashion.

Some plough the fields; others wait for the bus. Inside the village schoolhouse, child-sized dolls sit at their desks while a newspaper-stuffed teacher stands at the blackboard.

Ayano's creation is known as "Scarecrow Village."... Читать дальше...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president is vowing to "redouble" efforts to secure the release of nearly 200 schoolgirls who remain missing more than two years after being abducted by Boko Haram extremists.

NEW YORK (AP) — Visiting what remains of New York City's original "Little Syria" neighborhood is a short tour that's long on fascinating, largely forgotten history.

Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, says three buildings on Washington Street are "the last traces" of the neighborhood that stretched several blocks from the foot of Manhattan north to where the World Trade Center was later built. [...] the historic row on Washington Street between Rector and Carlisle streets offers a representative sampling of the mostly vanished neighborhood: The building has been protected as a city landmark, Fine said, though preservationists have... Читать дальше...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s president called for “tolerance and acceptance” of minorities Wednesday as the nation’s highest court considers whether to legally recognize a same-sex marriage between a U.S. citizen and a Romanian man. Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German and a Lutheran, noted that he belonged to two minorities. “Tolerance and acceptance of others are

Apparemment, plein de Japonais-es trouvent le logo d’Évian trop mignon.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on the developments in Iraq as government forces and their allies press ahead in the battle for IS-held city of Mosul (all times local):

Ed Whitlock, 85, is a new world record holder after the English-born Canadian finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in under four hours.

De cast van de musical De Marathon, naar de gelijknamige film, moet nog flink oefenen op hun Rotterdamse accent. Maar hoofdrolspelers Kees Boot en Michiel Nooter, voor de gelegenheid gehuld in geel-roze hardlooppakjes, hebben er wel vertrouwen in. Ook actrice Jelka van Houten gaat er helemaal voor. En John Buijsman? ,,Ik heb wel meer acteurs aan het Rotterdams geholpen.''

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux's tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says many likely won't move.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux's tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says many likely won't move.

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday told a group of 21 girls released by Islamist militants last week that he will "redouble" efforts to bring home about 200 still missing after the kidnapping in Chibok in 2014. About 270 girls were seized at their school in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency, killing thousands of people and displacing more than 2 million. "We shall redouble our efforts to bring the rest back home," Buhari said. Читать дальше...

This could explain why NATO governments have been so anxious in recent weeks to halt the Syrian-Russian offensive on Aleppo. Could it be that they need to extricate their special forces embedded with terrorist-dominated militants?

The final live US presidential debate is to be given "extra spice" after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump invited President Barack Obama's half-brother along to the event, a media report said.

After breaking out of fire in first floor of the emergency unit of the SUM Hospital here on Monday evening, total 130 patients were shifted to different government and private hospitals. Out of which 21 patients died and eight others are still in critical condition.

Chris Hayward, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, develops state-of-the-art computer simulations, which inspired visualizations featured in Terrence Malick’s Imax film Voyage of Time.

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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A Mexican businessman accused in a drug scheme was extradited from the U.S. to Mexico and is being held in the prison where Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Donald Trump's childhood home in New York City's borough of Queens is scheduled to be auctioned Wednesday.

Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco played the whole way against the Giants in last Sunday’s loss without suffering any apparent injury and there was no word of one when he spoke to the media after the game, but something is keeping Flacco off the practice field on Wednesday. The team announced that Flacco is not taking…