REDWOOD VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A teenage girl died in a hospital three weeks after she was severely burned in a fire that tore through Mendocino County, California, raising the number of those killed in the state's wildfires this month to 43.
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South Korea's foreign ministry said Lee Do-hoon, its representative for six-party nuclear talks, and his Chinese counterpart, Kong Xuanyou, will meet in Beijing on Tuesday. The meeting will be the first since the two officials took office and is an extension of recent meetings between nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The officials will exchange analyses on the current situation regarding North Korea's nuclear and missile program and also discuss ways to cooperate in managing the situation in a stable manner, the statement said.
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"Lives at risk" as some salons in Wales offer hair colour appointments for under-16s.
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Becky Morgans is campaigning to raise awareness of heart disease in young people.
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President Donald Trump wasted no time on Monday trying to extinguish a political firestorm ignited by news that his former campaign manager Paul Manafort had been charged on a dozen counts as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Carles Puigdemont, the ousted president of Catalonia who defied the Spanish state by declaring his region’s independence, has fled Spain to Brussels, fuelling speculation that he may seek political asylum in Belgium. Sources from the Catalan government, which has been formally removed from power by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, told The Telegraph that Mr Puigdemont had travelled to the Belgian capital on Monday, reportedly accompanied by five colleagues from his former administration. On Monday all 14 members of Mr Puigdemont’s ousted executive were accused by Spain’s chief prosecutor of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for organising an illegal referendum in Catalonia before declaring independence. Six members of the speaker’s committee at the Catalan parliament face the same accusations for pushing ahead with illegal procedures ahead of last Friday’s proclamation of an independent Catalan republic. A Mossos d'Esquadra, a Catalan regional police officer, stands guard outside the Generalitat Palace, the Catalan regional government headquarter in Barcelona Credit: YVES HERMAN/ REUTERS Catalonia’s public television channel, TV3, said that Mr Puigdemont and some of his former government colleagues were “in a safe and secluded place”. On Sunday Belgium’s migration minister, Theo Francken, had appeared to invite Mr Puigdemont to request asylum in the country to avoid being arrested and facing up to 30 years in jail if found guilty of rebellion. A spokesperson for Mr Francken said on Monday that he could not confirm rumours regarding the deposed Catalan leader’s presence in Brussels. The Belgian state broadcaster VRT said Mr Puigdemont would “meet lawyers and political representatives” without providing details. Mr Francken is a member of the New Flemish Alliance, the largest party in Belgium’s coalition government, which has offered consistent support for the cause of Catalan independence. The chief spokesman of Spain’s ruling Popular Party, Fernando MartÃnez MaÃllo, said that Mr Puigdemont fleeing to Brussels was an “error and a sign of desperation”. And there were signs in Catalonia that Mr Puigdemont’s decision to leave the country was not shared by all of his former government colleagues, some of whom showed up for work in their departments on Monday, despite the imposition of direct rule from Madrid under emergency constitutional powers. “There are some people who are still working for Catalonia in the functions that correspond to them and others who will explain their decisions at some point,” a source from the office of Catalonia’s ousted vice president, Oriol Junqueras, said of Mr Puigdemont’s journey. Al despatx, exercint les responsabilitats que ens ha encomanat el poble de Catalunya. #http://seguimpic.twitter.com/npc6vFH0rB— Josep Rull i Andreu (@joseprull) October 30, 2017 The source said that the now deposed Catalan number two had gone to work in Catalonia’s economy department on Monday. Josep Rull, another ousted government member, posted a photograph of himself on Twitter sitting at his desk, on which a copy of Monday’s edition of the Catalan newspaper El Punt Avui was visible. Spain’s interior minister, Juan Ignacio ZoÃdo, appealed to Mr Rull to desist from his defiant attitude, explaining that the Catalan Mossos d’Esquadra police force had been given direct orders from Madrid to file criminal reports against regional officials who did not accept their dismissals. “I ask him to be sensible and to avoid dragging more public servants to the precipice,” said Mr ZoÃdo. Bon dia �� A post shared by Carles Puigdemont (@carlespuigdemont) on Oct 29, 2017 at 11:39pm PDT Amid expectation that he might also defy Madrid and attempt to enter his former presidential headquarters on Monday morning, Mr Puigdemont appeared to be relishing the game of cat and mouse, posting a photograph of an interior view of the government palace on Instagram in an ambiguous hint that he may have found a way of sneaking inside. The mystery as to Mr Puigdemont’s whereabouts deepened when he failed to attend a meeting of his PDeCAT pro-independence party where the decision was taken to run in elections imposed on the region by Mr Rajoy and set for December 21. A source from Mr Junqueras’ Catalan Republican Left party said they would also enter the elections, as long as they are “free of the violence and intimidation we saw during the referendum”, marred by police charges against voters. “We will never deny Catalan people the chance to choose at the ballot box. We ask that the Spanish government respect their decision this time.” Watch: Police enter Catalan government buildings after dissolution of Parliament Police enter Catalan government buildings after dissolution of Parliament 00:37
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Turkish police detained 143 people over suspected links to Islamic State in anti-terror operations in eight cities over the weekend, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Sunday. Counter-terrorism police detained 49 foreign nationals on Saturday during operations in the capital Ankara, Anadolu said. The police raided houses in Bursa, a northwestern province of Turkey, and detained 39 people including 28 Syrian nationals and two Azerbaijani nationals on Sunday, Anadolu said.
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Celebrities and others were swift and blistering in their condemnation of actor Kevin Spacey’s Twitter apology to fellow actor Anthony Rapp early Monday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Sunday it has foiled an online plot led by foreigners to spark dissent involving the tomb of Cyrus the Great on the day that many mark the birth of the Persian king by gathering at his grave.
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WASHINGTON ― Mired by compromised credibility and reeling from newly revealed indictments, President Donald Trump and his White House reverted to form Monday, falsely claiming that the alleged criminal actions were completely unrelated to him.
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Damascus said Sunday it still considers Raqa an occupied city, less than two weeks after a US-backed alliance drove the Islamic State group out of its onetime Syrian capital. Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad kept out of the offensive led by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that pushed IS out of the city on October 17. "Raqa is still an occupied city and cannot be considered liberated until the entry of the Syrian army, which is fighting IS along with its allies," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its "destructive and reckless path" of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement. Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford hosted his South Korean and Japanese counterparts at the U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii on Sunday to exchange views on North Korea's recent long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests. "Together they called upon North Korea to refrain from irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tensions, and to walk away from its destructive and reckless path of development," the statement said.
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Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was indicted on 12 counts Monday, including conspiracy against the United States, in connection with lobbying work for Ukraine uncovered by the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Manafort, Gates plead not guilty in grand jury indictment
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates pleaded not guilty on Monday after being indicted on 12 counts by a federal grand jury as part of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign officials in the 2016 presidential election.
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The video streaming company said it was "deeply troubled" by actor Anthony Rapp's abuse allegation.
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What do the farmers out in the field, in the dairy, and in the milking parlour think about Brexit?
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities took control of the main land crossing with Turkey, in the Kurdish area of Fish-Khabur, a customs official said on Tuesday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops on Tuesday killed a pro-Islamic State gunman in the southern city of Marawi, a military official said, eight days after the government declared the end of hostilities.
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Juan Williams: Trump's war on media is truly dangerous
Clearly the president has an authoritarian bent when it comes to journalism.
Ignoring hate graffiti means we don't give racists - or hoaxers - the satisfaction they crave
Last week, yet another incidence of racist defacement turned out to be a hoax.
WASHINGTON ― White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday shrugged off news of criminal charges against several members of President Donald Trump’s campaign, arguing they had “nothing to do with the president” or “the activities of the campaign.”
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Stephen Parry will become the sixth politician to lose office if his British status is confirmed.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish and Iraqi soldiers were heading toward the Habur border gate between their two countries and Iraqi troops were expected to assume control of the crossing from Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Turkish security sources said on Tuesday.
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Key militant in Benghazi attack to be charged in federal court
The militant who was allegedly involved in the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi will be charged in federal court when he arrives in the U.S., an official told Fox News on Monday.
BP 3Q earnings rise 9.2 percent
BP says third-quarter earnings have risen 9.2 percent as the energy company cut costs and increased production.
The White House has been distancing itself from Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort ever since his ties to Ukraine became front-page news. But Manafort’s numerous connections to Trump and his associates are well known.
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South Korea's foreign ministry said Lee Do-hoon, its representative for six-party nuclear talks, and his Chinese counterpart, Kong Xuanyou, will meet in Beijing on Tuesday. The meeting will be the first since the two officials took office and is an extension of recent meetings between nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The officials will exchange analyses on the current situation regarding North Korea's nuclear and missile program and also discuss ways to cooperate in managing the situation in a stable manner, the statement said.
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At least five people died in a windstorm that hit central Europe on Sunday, causing widespread power outages and traffic disruptions. In the Czech Republic, falling trees killed a woman in a forest near the central city of Trebic and an elderly man on the street in Jicin northeast of Prague. In Germany, a 63-year-old man sleeping in a van at a camping site on Jade Bay in the north of the country drowned when he tried to escape flash floods on foot, police said.
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A 22-year-old woman died after a 12-year-old boy jumped off of an overpass and landed on her car, Saturday
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By Patricia Zengerle and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's top national security aides pushed back on Monday against U.S. lawmakers calling for a new congressional war authorization, saying it would be a mistake to impose geographic or time limits on the campaign against Islamic State and other militant groups. "War is fundamentally unpredictable," Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told a Senate hearing about a potential new authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, Congress' most significant step in years toward taking back control of its constitutional right to authorize war. Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson both told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee it would put U.S. forces at risk if existing authorizations were repealed without new ones in place.
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Celebrities and others were swift and blistering in their condemnation of actor Kevin Spacey’s Twitter apology to fellow actor Anthony Rapp early Monday.
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The head of Puerto Rico’s power authority moved on Sunday to cancel a controversial contract with Whitefish Energy, the small Montana company under scrutiny for the deal worth hundreds of millions to help restore power to the hurricane-ravaged island.
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Donald Trump launched an angry denunciation of the official probe into his election campaign’s alleged ties to Russia yesterday as it emerged the federal investigation could make its first arrest as early as Monday. Senior Republicans also stepped up attacks on Robert Mueller, the man leading the investigation into alleged Russian attempts to sway last year’s American election, criticising leaks and demanding he step aside. US media reported that the first arrests from Mr Mueller’s investigation - possibly including some of Mr Trump’s senior former advisers - could come on Monday after a grand jury approved its first Russia-related indictment on Friday. The revelation sparked a weekend of feverish speculation about who would be indicted as well as frantic Republican efforts to discredit the investigation. In a furious and defensive barrage of tweets on Sunday morning, Mr Trump dismissed the allegations as “phony” and the investigation as a “witch hunt”, complaining that allegations against Hillary Clinton had not been examined in the same detail. Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017 ...the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more. Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia,....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017 ..."collusion," which doesn't exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics, but the R's...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017 ...are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017 In particular he highlighted her campaign’s role in funding research that produced a controversial dossier – compiled by a former MI6 spy – detailing unsubstantiated claims against him and an Obama administration nuclear deal with Russia. The furious Republican response gives a sense of the potential impact of Mr Mueller’s investigation into a controversy that stretches to the upper reaches of the Trump administration. The special counsel’s team has interviewed a string of former White House figures including Reince Priebus, who served as chief of staff, and Sean Spicer, who resigned as press secretary during the summer. In July, FBI agents raided the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, whose previous work for a pro-Moscow political party in Ukraine as well as his real estate dealings are being investigated by Mr Mueller’s team. Paul Manafort Credit: AP Mr Manafort served as campaign chairman for about two months last year before leaving amid campaign chaos and growing questions about foreign payments during his time as a lobbyist. He has reportedly told confidants that he expects to face charges. Mr Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department in May to head the investigation after Mr Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI. He has assembled a powerful team of forensic investigators with experience in prosecuting white collar crimes as he probes Russian meddling and any possible collusion between the Trump campaign team and Moscow. Mr Mueller with James Comey Credit: AP But Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and a Trump supporter, said frequent leaks risked undermining its credibility. “I think for us to have confidence in this process we’ve got to make sure the grand jury remains confidential, remains secret so that special counsel can work effectively to be able to get to the bottom of all he’s looking into,” he said. Others questioned Mr Mueller’s independence and demanded his removal. Sebastian Gorka, who appears frequently on conservative media since being ousted as a White House adviser, wrote on Twitter: “If this man's team executes warrants this weekend he should stripped of his authority by @realDonaldTrump. Then HE should be investigated.” As well as calling for the special counsel’s removal, Trump loyalists spent the weekend fanning a distraction campaign. They accused the Obama administration of colluding with Moscow in a deal that gave Russia control of 20 percent of US uranium supply. The issue was taken up by Roger Stone, one of Mr Trump’s most outspoken allies, in a foul-mouthed tirade directed at CNN and New York Times journalists. His Twitter account was later suspended.
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BERLIN (AP) — High winds knocked down trees and caused widespread travel chaos across much of Central Europe on Sunday, leaving five people dead and several injured.
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Iran's president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme. "To defend our nation and territorial integrity, we will build all the weapons we will need," Hassan Rouhani told parliament in statements broadcast on state television. Recent Iranian missile launches have triggered US sanctions and accusations they violate the spirit of a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers.
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Kellyanne Conway bashed political campaigns on Monday that “dig around with foreign nationals” to uncover dirt on their opponents.
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Pregnant mothers in Nepal giving birth in rural areas face an easier birth thanks to a solar power suitcase.
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China's ruling Communist party on Sunday promoted Li Qiang, an ally of President Xi Jinping, to its top post in Shanghai, state media said -- demonstrating Xi's increasing grip on power throughout the country. Li Qiang, 58, has been appointed party chief of Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency said. The announcement comes days after the conclusion of the 19th Party Congress, a key Communist conclave that handed Xi a second term and crowned him as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades.
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Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was indicted on 12 counts Monday, including conspiracy against the United States, in connection with lobbying work for Ukraine uncovered by the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mom beat kids, shaved their heads for eating ice cream, police charge
A 26-year-old mother of four in Idaho severely beat each of her children, bit one of them, and shaved her two daughters' heads earlier this year --- all because they ate a tub of ice cream, police say.
President Trump says that the federal investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia is a “witch hunt” and “bad for the country,” but insists Republicans are united in drawing Hillary Clinton into it.
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