May keeps EU guessing on Brexit and other top stories.

• May keeps EU guessing on Brexit

  

  May keeps EU guessing on BrexitElizabeth PiperReuters10:06AM September 19, 2016SaveAs Europe clamours to know how Britain plans to implement its decision to leave the European Union, new Prime Minister Theresa May is giving little away, but her strategy is becoming clear.May broke with tradition and invited media to her official country residence, Chequers, last month to film her taking charge of a potentially unruly cabinet, whose members differ widely and sometimes publicly over Britain's prio..

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• Amal Clooney Takes on ISIS for 'Clear Case of Genocide' of Yazidis

  

  Amal Clooney sat in a tent in a refugee camp in northern Greece, surrounded by members of Iraq's Yazidi community, who have been driven from their homes in a genocidal campaign by ISIS. "I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis," Clooney, a human rights lawyer, told the men, women and children huddled around. Over the last two years, ISIS terrorists who overran parts of Syria and Iraq have enslaved, raped and murdered Yazidis because..

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• EgyptAir crash: Traces of TNT found in flight 804 wreckage, in Mediterranean

  

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• Thais search for missing as 18 die in pilgrim boat accident

  

  Divers pulled at least two bodies from the bowels of a submerged river boat Monday after the overcrowded vessel carrying Muslim pilgrims sank on Thailand's Chao Phraya river, leaving 18 people dead. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon near the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a popular tourist attraction, when a boat packed with pilgrims returning from a mosque hit a concrete bank in strong currents. Scores of people lined the bank Monday as divers plunged into the swollen, brown waters for the..

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• Manhunt underway for person of interest in NYC, NJ bombings

  

  by Sinclair Broadcast GroupPolice have identified a person of interest for the bombing in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. (MGN Online) (SBG/AP) — Authorities Monday morning released a photo of a 28-year-old New Jersey man wanted for questioning for the bombings in New York's Chelsea neighborhood and a New Jersey town on Saturday. Officials identified Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as a person of interest. Rahami is originally from Afghanistan. “..

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• Labor guidelines a 'concern' for Israeli minister

  

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• Merkel party routed in Berlin polls as right-wing AfD gains

  

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• Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires may have caused 100000 deaths: report

  

  Killer haze from forest fires that raged across Indonesia last year may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, according to a new report that suggests a drastically higher death toll than Indonesian government figures.Harvard and Columbia University researchers used air pollution readings to calculate exposure to the deadly smoke. Indonesians were the worst affected with an estimated 91,600 excess deaths, the report found. Photo: Getty Images ..

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