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RUSSIAN and Chinese firms have been hit with a US trade embargo for supporting North Korea despite UN sanctions – sparking angry reaction from Beijing. Daily Express :: News Feed

ONE of Germany’s leading liberal politicians has conceded “the big Europe idea has hit the ground” as he quits the European Parliament for Berlin. Daily Express :: News Feed

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end America’s longest war and eliminate Afghanistan’s rising extremist threat involves sending up to 3,900 additional U.S. troops, senior officials said Tuesday. The first deployments could take place within days. CBC | World News

An extremist cell in northeastern Spain was preparing bombs for an imam who planned to blow himself up at a Barcelona monument, a suspect in the attacks that killed 15 people in northeastern Spain told a judge Tuesday, according to a judicial official.​ CBC | World News

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Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country’s chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential UN report on North Korea sanctions violations. CBC | World News

At halftime of last night’s preseason game against the Cleveland Browns, the New York Giants were having about as awful a game as they could possibly have. Their first team offense had struggled mightily to get anything going, as they trailed 7-3. To make matters worse, they had seen their two tops receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Brandon Marshall leave ...

THE WHITE House has been placed on lockdown by the US Secret Service amid reports of an unidentified security threat. Daily Express :: News Feed

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a new tone on the war in Afghanistan on Monday — not pulling out, but digging in. It’s a strategy not meant to immediately win the costly, complicated war, but to buy time to try and stabilize the situation and find a way out, experts say. CBC | World News

NOSTRADAMUS’ eerie predictions have mystified the world for centuries, but did the French prophet predict the outbreak of World War 3 this year? Daily Express :: News Feed