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Justin Trudeau's Liberals win Canada election, but miss majority

Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party a victory in Monday's parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats appeared to have failed.

World leaders return to United Nations and face many escalating crises

World leaders will be back at the United Nations for the first time in two years on Tuesday with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle

France rallies European Union as trust in US, UK and Australia wanes

France on Tuesday urged its European Union partners to consider whether to delay negotiations on the bloc's future trade agreement with Australia

Barcelona held by winless Granada at Camp Nou in La Liga

Less than a week after a demoralizing loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, Barcelona faltered at Camp Nou again, being held by winless Granada 1-1 in the Spanish league.

UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution

Opening pocketbooks wider to fight climate change? That's looking slightly more doable. Closing more smokestacks for the same goal? Not yet sold

EU official says Australia trade deal delayed by French snub

Australia's cancellation of a French submarine contract will complicate and delay negotiations on an Australian-European Union free trade deal, a European trade official said on Tuesday.

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele changes Twitter profile to 'dictator'

El Salvador's bitcoin-pushing president apparently changed his Twitter profile description to "dictator" on Monday, in what might be an ironic comment on last week's protests against him.

Joe Biden looks to turn page on 20 years of war in UN address

The president faced a healthy measure of skepticism when he arrived in New York on Monday to start a week of high-level diplomacy.

Another evacuation flight leaves Afghanistan with 21 US citizens onboard

The US State Department has confirmed that a Qatar Airways flight flew 21 US citizens and 48 permanent residents out of Afghanistan on Sunday

Joe Biden launches response to health harms from extreme heat

Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat after a dangerously hot summer that spurred an onslaught of drought-worsened wildfires and caused hundreds of deaths

Pfizer vaccine safe for children aged 5-11, show clinical trial results

Pfizer said Monday its Covid-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek US authorisation for this age group soon -- a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters.

UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must put more efforts

Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change

Shooting in Russian university leaves 8 dead

A gunman opened fire in a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday morning, leaving eight people dead and others wounded, according to Russia's Investigative Committee

Parents laud Chinese rules aimed at kids' 'unhealthy' gaming

Li Zhanguo's two children, aged eight and four, don't have their own smartphones, but like millions of other Chinese children, they are no strangers to online gaming

France and Australia agree submarines won't stop trade deal

French and Australian officials said Monday that France's anger over a cancelled submarine contract will not derail negotiations on an Australia-European Union free trade deal.

Taliban-run Kabul municipality to female workers: Stay home

Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men

France's Macron to talk to Joe Biden amid crisis over submarines

Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden, an official said Sunday.

New tropical depression forms in Atlantic Ocean; Odette well offshore

Forecasters announced the formation of a new tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday night, as the former tropical storm named Odette headed well offshore of Nova Scotia in Canada.

US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas

The US plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials have said as agents poured into a Texas border city

Four space tourists end their trailblazing trip with Atlantic splashdown

The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut