Donald Trump misrepresents facts on China's currency

WASHINGTON - In the latest chapter of an escalating trade conflict with China, US President Donald Trump is again accusing Beijing of manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages. In doing so, he's misrepresenting the facts.

DPRK fires projectiles, denouncing US drills

In an apparent show of protest against the ongoing joint military exercise by Seoul and Washington, Pyongyang fired two short-range projectiles into its eastern waters on Tuesday, the fourth such launch in less than two weeks.

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Magellan's adventure changed the world

LISBON, Portugal - Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail around the globe for the first time.

Race to ease pressure on damaged UK dam

LONDON - Emergency crews in northwest England raced to pump water from a reservoir with a damaged dam on Sunday as weather forecasts calling for thunderstorms hastened fear of the structure failing and flooding a town.

Egypt begins restoration of King Tut's golden coffin

CAIRO - In a state-of-the art conservation laboratory in the Grand Egyptian Museum, the large gilded coffin of famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun was placed inside a plastic incubator for sterilization. The objective is to restore this outermost coffin first time since it was discovered almost a century ago.

Bears leave shepherds skittish in Pyrenees

LARRAU, France - As day breaks over the Pyrenees mountains, hundreds of sheep scuttle up from a valley, the clanging of their neck bells echoing around the hills that fringe the French-Spanish border.

Southeast Asia open to Huawei over 5G

Southeast Asian countries eyeing the promise of 5G connectivity to boost economic development are sticking to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei among others.

Climate activist Thunberg to join zero-emissions transatlantic voyage

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who inspired tens of thousands of people to join a climate march last year, has begun a world tour that will entail crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a zero-emissions racing yacht.

Pakistan condemns revocation of special status for India-controlled Kashmir

NEW DELHI - The Indian government on Monday revoked India-controlled Kashmir's special status, stripping the significant autonomy it has enjoyed for seven decades in a move expected to further inflame tensions in the Muslim-majority region and infuriate Pakistan, which controls another portion of Kashmir.

Mass shootings roil US politics anew

The issue of gun violence was thrust again into the US political arena, as authorities attempted to explain two mass shootings over the weekend in which 29 people were killed in Texas and Ohio.

Life in public-shooting era: 'You can't just not go'

Ohio: A bar district where friends gathered for drinks on a warm on Saturday night. Texas: A Walmart stocked with supplies for back-to-school shopping on an August morning. California: A family-focused festival that celebrates garlic, the local cash crop.