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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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French hooded police officers guard the area with other police officers after a knife attack Thursday west of Paris.

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2 Killed In Knife Attack Outside Paris

7:56am August 23, 2018

by James Doubek

The French interior minister said the attacker had psychiatric problems and authorities are not treating the incident as terrorism, despite a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State.

Time Is Running Out On Britain's Plans For An Orderly Brexit

6:45am August 23, 2018

by Frank Langfitt

The British government releases documents on Thursday telling businesses how to prepare for the U.K. leaving the EU without an agreement between London and Brussels on their future relationship.

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Unraveling The Mystery Behind International Shipping Rates

5:47am August 23, 2018

by Kenny Malone

A New Jersey business owner stumbles onto a real-life international conspiracy: He discovers that a powerful group of people get together and set international shipping rates.

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Morning News Brief

5:07am August 23, 2018

Are President Trump's legal problems about to multiply now that two of his closest former aides are guilty of serious crimes? And, time is running out on Britain's plans for an orderly Brexit.