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Declare China a currency manipulator? Hasn’t happened. Make Japan and South Korea pay more to host U.S. troops? Hasn’t happened. Unleash fire and fury on

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Trump piles on new economic sanctions against North Korea

President Donald Trump has added economic action to his fiery military threats against North Korea, authorizing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreans’ nuclear weapons advances.

Mexico
Mexicans dig in rubble seeking survivors as quake kills 248

Rescuers and volunteers frantically dug through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings long into the night, looking for survivors of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake since 1985 as the

North Korea
Defiant N. Korea leader says he will complete nuke program

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned

Bangladesh
Bangladesh accuses Myanmar of violating its airspace

Bangladeshi authorities summoned Myanmar’s envoy to protest what they said were violations of their airspace amid an exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in western Myanmar.

Shiite Muslims
Iran recruits Afghan and Pakistani Shiites to fight in Syria

Thousands of Shiite Muslims from Afghanistan and Pakistan are being recruited by Iran to fight with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria, lured by promises of housing, a monthly salary

North Korea
North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight

North Korea conducted its longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile Friday, sending an intermediate-range weapon hurtling over U.S. ally Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean in a launch that

Malaysia
Malaysia fire blocks lone exit to Islamic dormitory; 23 dead

Malaysia

Aung San Suu Kyi
As Rohingya flee Myanmar, leader Suu Kyi skips UN meeting

Facing global condemnation for weeks of violence that has driven minority Rohingya to flee — a crisis U.N. officials have described as “ethnic cleansing” — Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu

9/11
US marks 9/11 anniversary with resolve, tears and hope

Americans commemorated 9/11 on Monday with tear-streaked tributes, a presidential warning to terrorists and appeals from victims’ relatives for unity and hope 16 years after the deadliest terrorist attack on