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A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico Tuesday… killing at least one person, and injuring several others. The island has experienced a series of tremors over the past ten days, with seismologists saying it's impossible to predict when they will stop.
Jillian Wolf reports.
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The youngest ever person to be convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK has been detained for more than six years.
The now 17-year-old wrote about an "inevitable race war" in his diary and listed locations from his home city as targets in a "guerrilla warfare" manual.
Benji Hyer reports.
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Teachers in the various technical universities in Ghana have declared an indefinite strike. It follows the government's failure to meet a National Labour Commission's directive to pay them their general allowances by December 2019.
From Accra, Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports…
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The French finance minister says France and the US have given themselves 15 days to resolve a trade dispute over France's digital tax.
The US has threatened 2.4 billion dollars of retaliatory tariffs on French wines, leather goods, cheeses and makeup if the tax is not scrapped.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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A British teenager detained in a Cypriot prison over a false rape claim is now free to return home to the UK after being handed a four-month suspended sentence.
The 19-year-old was convicted following a trial having recanting an allegation that she was raped in a hotel room by a dozen young Israeli men in July.
Benji Hyer reports.
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Reports say at least 30 people have been killed and many more injured in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, after an improvised explosive device detonated on a bridge leading to the border with Cameroon.
Correspondent Phil Ihaza, reports from Nigeria's capital Abuja
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The Pentagon is now denying that the US has any plans to withdraw its forces from Iraq, despite a letter sent to the Iraqi Defense Ministry by a top US Army official who said preparations for the withdrawal are about to get underway.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper says "no decision" on the pull-out of forces has yet been taken, after the Iraqi Parliament ordered their expulsion.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The US has told the Iraqi military that it WILL go ahead and prepare for the withdrawal of withdraw five thousand US troops stationed in the country.
The Iraqi Parliament voted over the weekend for the expulsion of all foreign forces based in the country, including around fifteen hundred British troops.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on new sex crime charges in Los Angeles.
These new charges come just as his trial on rape and sexual assault charges gets underway in New York.
Rachel Silverman has details.
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The statement posted on the embassy's website reads, 'There is heightened tension in the Middle East that may result in security risks to US citizens abroad.
Daniel Kijo has more from Dar es salaam.
Three Americans have been killed in an attack on a military base in Kenya. It is the first attack on U.S. forces in Kenya by the Al-Qaeda linked group, Al Shabab.
Jillian Wolf has more from New York.
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