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Scott Morrison was elected Australia's 30th prime minister on Friday.

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Australia Gets A New Prime Minister

2:54am August 24, 2018

by James Doubek

Scott Morrison was chosen as the country's new prime minister by members of Australia's Liberal Party. The outgoing Malcolm Turnbull said "a determined insurgency" in his own party brought him down.

President Trump addresses the Medal of Honor ceremony for Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman in the White House on Wednesday. Hours later, he tweeted about white farmers in South Africa — much to the bemusement and indignation of South African leaders.

Here's The Story Behind That Trump Tweet On South Africa — And Why It Sparked Outrage

10:23pm August 23, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Outrage quickly followed the president's tweet about "the large scale killing of farmers" in South Africa. But why? The thorny history involves apartheid, white supremacists and plenty of acrimony.

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How A No-Deal Brexit Will Likely Disrupt U.K.-E.U. Financial Ties

5:42pm August 23, 2018

by Frank Langfitt

The British government has revealed its advice to businesses on how to prepare for the possibility of the U.K. leaving the European Union without an agreement on their future relationship.

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South Africans Reject Trump's Characterization Of Land Ownership Issues

5:42pm August 23, 2018

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered by President Trump to study South Africa's efforts to overhaul land ownership and the "large scale killing of farmers." South Africa angrily rejected Trump's characterization and said it smacked of the colonial past.

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Nicaraguan Refugee Crisis Growing In Central America

5:42pm August 23, 2018

by Carrie Kahn

Hundreds of Nicaraguans are arriving in Costa Rica daily, fleeing the conflict in their country. The country is straining to provide services to the refugees and undergoing a sense of deja vu back to the days of the Nicaraguan Revolution.

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Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. Pressure is mounting on the pontiff as more and more church sexual abuse scandals unfold around the world.

Pope Francis To Visit Ireland Amid Church Scandals Across The World

5:42pm August 23, 2018

by Sylvia Poggioli

The pope is under intense pressure to enact concrete measures to ensure accountability for church officials who ignored or covered up sexual abuse by clergy.

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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, purportedly seen here in video posted in 2014.

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ISIS Releases Purported Audio Recording Of Leader Al-Baghdadi

4:42pm August 23, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

In the message, which is nearly an hour long, the speaker says he knows followers are suffering from "hunger and fear" and urges patience. He also calls on them to engage in small-scale attacks.

Dock workers unload bags of chemicals earlier this month at a port in Zhangjiagang, north of Shanghai.

U.S. And China Impose Fresh Tariffs As Trade War Escalates

3:36pm August 23, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion of Chinese goods overnight, and China matched them. The two have slapped tariffs on a total of $100 billion of each other's goods in two months.

A Mosul resident looks at the ruins of a damaged historic house in his neighborhood in Mosul's Old City. The United Nations estimates 8,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the fighting to take back this section of Iraq's second-biggest city.

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'The Old City Will Come Back Better': Residents Of Mosul Return And Rebuild

2:12pm August 23, 2018

by Jane Arraf

More than a year after ISIS was driven out, residents are doing their best to rebuild in historic neighborhoods left in rubble. "Even if no one else came back," a shopkeeper says, "I would come back."

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U.S. Moves Forward With More Tariffs On Chinese Goods

8:13am August 23, 2018

David Greene talks to Jake Colvin — of the business group the National Foreign Trade Council — who testified at hearings held by the U.S. trade office on the next round of U.S. tariffs.

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