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Satellite images reveal tunneling and other construction activity at two sites believed to house long-range missiles.

North Korea Seen Expanding Missile Base

4:53pm December 06, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Satellite images reveal tunneling and other construction activity at two sites near the Chinese border that are believed to house long-range missiles that could in theory reach the United States.

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Informal Adviser To Trump On What The U.S. Hopes To Get From Trade Talks With China

4:24pm December 06, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and an informal adviser to President Trump, about the telecom giant Huawei and U.S.-China trade.

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Swedish and U.N. officials, as well as delegates of Yemen's government and the Houthi rebels, attend the opening press conference of the Yemeni peace talks at Johannesberg castle in Rimbo, Sweden, on Thursday.

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Yemen Peace Talks Begin In Sweden, As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

4:05pm December 06, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government agreed to a prisoner swap, setting a positive note for the start of the talks. These are the first peace talks in more than two years.

American priest Kenneth Hendricks is accused of abusing at least 10 young boys in the Philippines; U.S. officials who sought his arrest are now trying to learn if there are any victims in Ohio, where he was previously based.

U.S. Catholic Priest Charged With Sexually Abusing Boys In Philippines

3:03pm December 06, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The Rev. Kenneth Hendricks faces charges in Ohio — where he was previously based — of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, a federal crime.

Millions of internal files from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm headquartered Panama, were leaked in 2016, prompting investigations by journalists and subsequent charges by prosecutors.

Prosecutors File First U.S. Charges Stemming From 2016 Panama Papers Leak

2:42pm December 06, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman says the defendants "had a playbook to repatriate un-taxed money into the U.S. banking system."

Visitors pass a Huawei marquee in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress last year. The daughter of the Chinese telecommunications giant's founder was arrested Saturday in Canada on U.S. request, in a move that threatens to inflame U.S.-China trade te

Huawei Finance Chief's Arrest Threatens To Inflame U.S.-China Tensions

1:18pm December 06, 2018

Canadian authorities have arrested Meng Wanzhou, the company's CFO and daughter of its founder, at the request of the U.S. And Chinese officials have made quite clear they're not happy about it.

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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (left) and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush share a light moment together outside the White House in 1990. Could they be discussing chicken?

Chicken Diplomacy: How President Bush Went For The Gut In The Former USSR

8:00am December 06, 2018

by Deena Prichep

The first Bush administration left the former Soviet Union with a taste for dark meat American chicken. It's all because of a Soviet food shortage, a U.S. surplus, and a deal with President Gorbachev.

Thick clouds emanate from a coal-burning power plant in Baishan, in the Jilin province of China. In an effort to boost its economy, China has recently started greenlighting coal projects that had been on hold.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Up Again. What Now, Climate?

7:43am December 06, 2018

by Christopher Joyce

The fortuitous dip in emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, during the past three years is over, as economies turn up. The trend in the near future looks grim, say climate scientists.

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Location Of New Tijuana Shelter May Interfere With Asylum Process

6:12am December 06, 2018

by Jean Guerrero

Thousands of migrants were moved to the shelter 14 miles from the border. This raises transportation issues for those who need to be at the border when their turn comes to apply for asylum in the U.S.

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After Arrest In Canada, Huawei Executive Faces Extradition To U.S.

6:10am December 06, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

At the request of the U.S. government, Canadian authorities have arrested the chief financial officer, who also is the daughter of the founder of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

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