Reuters
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9/11: 15 years later, Ground Zero attracts mourners
More than 28 million people have seen the memorial and 7 million have been to the museum since they were opened five years ago.
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Man who shot Ronald Reagan released from psychiatric hospital
Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. was released from a psychiatric hospital on Saturday, media reports said, 35 years after he shot U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an attack prompted by a deranged obsession with the actress Jodie Foster.
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Syria: Fighting continues despite US - Russia peace deal
Air strikes on a busy market place that killed and injured dozens added to doubts that any ceasefire could hold.
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Woman arrested over Paris train station attack plan was 'promised as bride' to church attacker
One of three women arrested over a failed Islamist attack in Paris had been "promised as a bride" to two men behind attacks on police officers and a priest earlier this year
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Bangladesh garment factory fire kills 12
A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, police and witnesses said.
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US wants more sanctions after North Korea carries out another nuclear test
North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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Syria truce: Russia and USA set to agree peace deal
The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on Saturday to put Syria's peace process back on track, including a nationwide truce effective from sundown on Monday, improved humanitarian aid access and joint military targeting of banned Islamist groups.
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Kerry tries again with Russian counterpart on Syria; US patience 'not infinite'
US officials have said they believe a deal is still possible, but warn that the talks could not go on forever.
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Aleppo: Suspected chlorine gas attack chokes dozens
The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organisation that operates in rebel-held areas, said government helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine
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Trump, Clinton court Ohio as White House race enters final two months
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened a final two-month sprint to the November 8 election on Monday
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Trump uses visit to black church to call for new civil rights agenda
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit.
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Mother Teresa's mission lives on in Kolkata
On the eve of her canonization as a Roman Catholic saint, and 19 years after her death, the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is going strong - even without her charismatic leadership.