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Harvey Weinstein has resigned from the board of The Weinstein Company, it said on Tuesday, as he faces allegations that he sexually harassed or assaulted a number of women over three decades in the film business. CBC | World News

Key U.S. senators reached a breakthrough deal on resuming federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has halted. Insurers had warned that unless the money is quickly restored, premiums will go up. Trump spoke favorably about the bipartisan compromise, which is still likely to face opposition in Congress. CBC | World News

Spain’s constitutional court ruled that an independence referendum in Catalonia was unconstitutional, adding weight to government efforts to block the region from breaking away from the rest of the country but not persuading demonstrators demanding the release of two jailed separatist activists. CBC | World News

A NEW 48 million-year-old species of bird has been discovered in Germany that is a “likely relation to modern hoopoes”, according to experts. Daily Express :: News Feed

NORTH Korea will not engage in diplomatic negotiations with the US until it has a missile capable of reaching “all the way to the East coast of the mainland US”, according to a new report. Daily Express :: News Feed

The United States is not ruling out the eventual possibility of direct talks with North Korea, Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan says, as Pyongyang warns nuclear war might break out at any moment. CBC | World News

A car crash in Salt Lake City, Utah fatally injures 4-year-old Lila Johanson and critically injures her mother, according to Fox13 Now. Just before 10 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11, authorities say that the child’s mother, Alexa Johanson, was driving westbound in her vehicle on 2700 South near Chadwick Street when she suddenly veered into the eastbound Lanes and struck ...

AUSTRIA could be about to join the anti-immigration Visegrad group after a controversial election that has caused havoc for the European Union. Daily Express :: News Feed

Britain’s domestic intelligence chief warned during a rare public speech Tuesday that the terrorist threat the country faces has accelerated at an alarming pace and is worse now than at any time in his 34-year career. CBC | World News

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday will call the families of four soldiers killed this month in Niger, the White House says, as Trump casts doubt on whether his predecessor appropriately consoled the families of military personnel who died in war. CBC | World News