Veterans charity's ex-leader guilty of stealing $900G for personal expenses

The former director of a veterans charity organization was convicted Thursday of stealing money from the nonprofit for personal expenses including jewelry, shopping, and business ventures, according to court documents. 

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California floods recede after storms in wildfire burn areas

Flash flood waters receded after heavy downpours inundated roads and forced evacuations in a wildfire-scarred area of Northern California.

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For Israel, a rearmed Hezbollah in Lebanon is top concern

On a moonlit night, some two dozen Israeli soldiers in full battle gear march near a Lebanese border village with a bomb-sniffing dog, searching for explosives and infiltrators.

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'One family': Party members take homestays in far west China

The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong.

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Trump says close to doing something with China on trade

The US is very close to a trade deal with China, President Donald Trump has said, but remained noncommittal to its final outcome ahead of his meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Argentina on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit. Trade and tariffs have been topics of increasing tension between the US and China.

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Trump-Putin: A rapprochement unrealized

At the same time, the US special counsel's probe of possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia raised domestic suspicion over any efforts towards accommodation with his Kremlin counterpart.

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Search for remains in California's deadliest wildfire officially ends

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said he was optimistic that some who remain unaccounted for will turn up alive, but he also left open the possibility that "bones or bone fragments" of additional victims could turn up as evacuation zones are reopened to civilians.

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Moon rocks sell for $855,000 in New York: Sotheby's

The rocks, collected by Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970, went for nearly double the $442,500 last paid for them by present-day US sellers in a Sotheby's Russian space history sale in 1993. They were originally the property of Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of former director of Soviet space program, who was given them in honor of her husband's work.

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US govt mulls tighter rules on Chinese pupils

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US President Donald Trump calls off Putin meeting over Ukraine crisis

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US jury rejects employment bias charges against TCS in relief to Indian IT majors

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Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to US Congress

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US puts on hold discussions over Lanka's participation in MCC amidst political crisis

The US has put on hold its discussions with Sri Lanka on its potential participation in an American aid initiative on poverty reduction due to the disruption in the country's democratic process following the ouster of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a senior official has said.

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Trump heads to G20 primed for new conflicts

US President Donald Trump jets to Argentina Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine.

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US suspended a total of $3 billion in security assistance to Pak this year: Report

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88 killed, 196 missing three weeks after Camp Fire began: Sheriff

The Camp Fire, which began on Nov. 8, destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and burned nearly 153,000 acres (62,000 hectares), an area five times the size of San Francisco, in and around the town of Paradise, a northern California community of 27,000 people.

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Pompeo says no hard evidence Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing

Pompeo spoke to reporters after he and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the Senate behind closed doors that weakening U.S.-Saudi ties over the killing would hurt national security.

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US and Mexico face stark choices as new president takes over

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US seeks transparency on Chinese debt on Pakistan

"The IMF team just came back from Pakistan. One of the things we're pushing hard for is full transparency of the debt," Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs David Malpass told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing.

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Elon Musk ducks out of one Los Angeles tunnel but pursues another

Musk's aptly named underground transit venture the Boring Company gave up on its development of a 2.7-mile (4.4-km) tunnel in West L.A. to settle litigation brought by community groups opposed to the project, the two sides said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

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Syria says downs 'hostile targets' in suspected Israeli attack

Syrian air defenses shot down "hostile targets" on Thursday, state media said, in an area regional intelligence sources said contains Iran-backed assets, while Russian media said no Israeli jet had been downed as earlier reported.

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‘No. of illegal immigrants in US at lowest level since 2004’

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Optional warning light could have aided Lion Air engineers before crash: experts

An optional warning light could have alerted engineers about mechanical faults on Lion Air's Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed last month, experts said, sparking an industry debate over whether installing the system should become mandatory.

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Ukraine bans entry to Russian adult men: border service chief

Ukraine has banned Russian adult men aged 16-60 years from entering Ukraine, the head of the border service Petro Tsygykal said in a televised meeting on Friday.

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Syria did not shoot down Israeli war plane: RIA cites source

Syrian air defenses shot down several targets but did not shoot down an Israeli war plane on Thursday, Russia's RIA news agency cited an unnamed Syrian security source as saying on Friday.

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Sri Lanka parliament halts ministers' salaries to hinder disputed PM

Sri Lanka's parliament on Friday voted to halt payment of ministers' salaries and travel expenses, but it remained unclear how the move would impact the disputed government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa whose ministers boycotted the vote.

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Merkel protege and old rival battle to lead Germany's ruling party

The race to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of Germany's ruling conservatives, and take pole position to succeed her as chancellor, is going down to the wire.

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Australian kids walk out of school to protest climate inaction

Thousands of children walked out of school across Australia on Friday in protest against government inaction on climate change, prompting a rebuke from a minister who said they were setting themselves up for "failure".

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Angry Indian farmers march on parliament to denounce their plight

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers and rural workers marched to the Indian parliament in the capital, New Delhi, on Friday in a protest against soaring operating costs and plunging produce prices that have brought misery to many.

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Germany checking if Merkel's plane woes had 'criminal' cause: paper

German investigators are checking whether there was any criminal cause behind the malfunction of a plane carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Argentina, German newspaper Rheinische Post reported on Friday, citing security sources.

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