At UN, Trump to face questions about Ukraine, Iran, allies

Faced with growing tumult at home and abroad, President Donald Trump heads into his three-day visit to the United Nations this week hoping to lean on strained alliances while fending off questions about whether he sought foreign help to damage a political rival. Trump's latest U.N. trip comes after nearly three years of an "America First" foreign policy that has unsettled allies and shredded multinational pacts. A centerpiece of this year's U.N. schedule will be a Monday session on climate change that Trump plans to skip.

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Tropical Storm Karen Has Formed in the Atlantic and Could Hit Puerto Rico. Here’s What to Know About Its Path

Tropical Storm Karen is “bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to portions of the southern Windward Islands” and could approach Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by Tuesday, forecasters say. Karen is moving west-northwest at 13 mph with maximum wind speeds of 40 mph and is about 60 miles north of Grenada, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center on Sunday afternoon, which stated that “no significant strengthening is expected” over the next 48 hours. A tropical storm warning, indicating that tropical storm conditions are expected within the next 12 hours, is already in effect for St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada and its dependencies, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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  Tropical Storm Jerry, Tropical Storm Karen, Tropical Depression 13 are all churning in the Atlantic Ocean

  WTVD – Raleigh/Durham
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  11th named storm of hurricane season developing

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Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Rhinos

Do you know how much dung one rhino produces a day? From Popular Mechanics

UN welcomes Huthi offer to halt attacks on Saudi Arabia

The United Nations envoy for Yemen welcomed Saturday an offer from the country's Huthi rebels to halt all attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying it could bring an end to years of bloody conflict. Implementation of the initiative by the Huthis "in good faith could send a powerful message of the will to end the war," Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said. The Iran-backed Huthis, which control the capital Sanaa and other parts of Yemen, have been fighting against a Saudi-led coalition which supports the country's internationally recognized government in a devastating five-year war.

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  The World's Oil Security Blanket Has Been Torched

  Bloomberg
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  Iran's president warns America to 'stay away' as it unveils long range missiles that could strike US bases

  The Telegraph

New York Post blasts Bill de Blasio with 'obituary' for his ended presidential campaign

WASHINGTON – The New York Post published an "obituary" for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's now-concluded presidential campaign. De Blasio, who is currently serving his second term as mayor, was blasted by the newspaper, which wrote that his campaign had "died" from "ego-induced psychosis." Neighbors said the body had been in rigor mortis for some time,” the mock obituary says.

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  New York Post Declares De Blasio's 2020 Bid 'Dead Of Ego-Induced Psychosis'

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  De Blasio’s Done, and the Joke’s on New York City

  The Daily Beast

Dozens detained in Kazakhstan at anti-China protests

ALMATY/NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Police detained dozens in Kazakhstan's two largest cities on Saturday as they took part in the latest protest against China's influence in the Central Asian republic. Neighboring China is already one of Kazakhstan's largest investors and trade partners and a plan to relocate a number of Chinese plants and factories to the former Soviet republic has faced public opposition. The latest round of protests on Saturday was organized by supporters of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive banker living in France who has been the fiercest critic of Kazakhstan's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Greek police make arrest in 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847

Greek police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a flight from Athens that became a multi-day ordeal and included the slaying of an American. Police said a 65-year-old suspect in the hijacking was arrested Thursday on the island of Mykonos in response to a warrant from Germany. Lt. Col. Theodoros Chronopoulos, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press that the hijacking case involved TWA Flight 847.

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  Suspected Lebanese hijacker arrested in Greece: police

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• UPDATE 2-Greek police arrest suspect in 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking

  Reuters

Russia and Japan Fought a Bloody War in China (Did History Forget)?

Between 1938 and 1939, the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire fought a series of clashes along the border between Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Russian-controlled Mongolia and the Siberian frontier near Russia's vital Pacific port of Vladivostok. The prizes were the rich resources of Manchuria, and beyond that, which of the two would be the dominant power in Northeast Asia. But even more important was the ultimate outcome of the Manchurian battles, which culminated in Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War between Japan and the United States.

Israel cuts power in parts of West Bank over debts

Israel's national electricity company said Sunday it was cutting power to parts of the occupied West Bank due to outstanding payments amounting to nearly $483 million. The Israel Electric Corporation said it was owed 1.7 billion shekels in debts from the main Palestinian power distributor for the West Bank, which is based in east Jerusalem. From Monday, the company "will reduce the current in some areas of the West Bank" because of the debts, it said in a statement.

UN Climate Action Summit: How many countries will step up on the world stage Monday?

The hottest ticket in New York on Monday is at the United Nations, where world leaders will hold a Climate Action Summit to address climate change. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres bluntly told nations to "come with concrete plans" to ramp up commitments to slash greenhouse gases and achieve net zero carbon emissions. President Donald Trump, who wants to pull the United States out of the ratified 2015 Paris agreement to cut emissions, won't participate, but United Nations officials and observers say China and about 70 other countries could make big announcements.

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  Greta Thunberg speaks at UN Youth Climate Summit

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  Sea level rise will flood the neighborhood around the UN building with two degrees warming

  Quartz

Woman convicted in texting suicide case denied parole

The Massachusetts woman convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself via text messages has been denied early release.

How Trump could lose the popular vote again – and hold the White House

In Washington this week, Hillary Clinton summed up her bid for the White House in 2016. You can win the popular vote. Clinton beat Donald Trump in the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots yet lost the electoral college – the body of people who represent states and actually get to choose the president – by 304 votes to 227.

Ex-cop's murder trial for shooting neighbor set to start

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. For some, the shooting was a tragic accident with circumstances that can only be described as "very unique." Others place it in pattern of white officers killing black men that, they say, points to systemic problems in American policing. On the eve of trial, one of the only points of agreement about her case in Dallas is that it has the potential to profoundly affect the relationship between police and residents.

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  Ex-cop's murder trial for shooting neighbor to begin

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• Murder trial begins for former Dallas cop who shot black man in his own home

  Reuters

Egypt's hardline president el-Sissi faces calls to quit in rare protests

Rare anti-government protests broke out in Egypt over the weekend calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down -  in the first major protests against his rule since he took power in 2014. In the capital, Cairo, dozens of protesters gathered on Friday night near Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights said security forces reportedly rounded up at least four dozen people in Cairo and elsewhere in the country in a move that was condemned by Human Rights Watch.

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  Cairo protests: Mass uprising against Egyptian president as demands grow for resignation after crackdown on critics

  The Independent
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  Anti-Sisi protesters clash with security forces in Suez

  AFP

Yemen upcycles shot-up buses to ease water shortage

Once a bus wreck peppered with bullet holes, the pristine white water tanker parked in front of a Yemen university now delivers water to students in the war-torn and cholera-hit south. Sitting among still battle-scarred buses, the tanker was repurposed by student welfare officer Nashwan el-Rebasi, who has made a mini fleet of water transporters for the university at the foot of the Taez mountains. "The idea was born out of the water shortages in the region and the total lack of a reservoir at the university," said the 35-year-old.

'She was drunk:' Bus driver facing DUI charges after child calls 911 to report her

A bus driver in Washington is facing charges of driving under the influence and reckless endangerment after a young passenger called 911 to report that she was intoxicated. Catherine Maccarone, 48, was arrested after a child who had just gotten off the bus told police her breath smelled of alcohol, according to audio from the 911 call obtained by several media outlets. The caller told dispatchers he'd tried to get his friends to get off the bus with him but Maccarone wouldn't let them.

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  Newly released 911 call from a student claiming his bus driver was drunk

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  Washington state bus driver arrested after child calls 911 to report her 'drunk'

  KGO – San Francisco

Face transplant recipient's donor face failing

A woman who was severely burned in Vermont is hoping for a second face transplant after doctors recently found tissue damage that likely will lead to the loss of her donor face.